anyone have any good leads.. I've been looking, but haven't really found anything to meet my needs.. so thought I would ask here. of course I want unlimited bandwidth, unlimited space would be great, with all the other things most here look for ... $20 a month or less would be the budget.. So tell me, where are you hosting? Thanks Mystic

I know of one place that can give you all of that but they are really slow to the point of being not worth the effort. www.colahost.co.uk. Great pricing, woeful speeds. But I actually use www.atfreeweb.com to host my site. $8.95 per month 100mb Space No Bandwidth restrictions 5 Pop Mails ASP CGI Frontpage Server Extensions 24 x 7 email support. At freeweb have always treated me really well, so I can't recommend them more highly.

tera-byte.com is my first recommendation and A1hosting a close second (3dcommune members get extra - look there for the info)

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Check out Topcities. Its free, 150Mb webspace, CGI and so on. Drawback is that files cant be larger than 900Kb... Maxx

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I host web sites. I have a number of clients from film students, to artists, to sewing shops. My own sites are hosted on my servers... 200 MB space 6 GB transfer 10 email accounts (POP & web based) Flash, QuickTime, etc. $19.95/month $24.95 setup (I'd waive for any Renderosity members) I limit transfer and server space to maintain very fast connections, even my own sites. If you're interested I'd love to help. I've never had any complaints or cancelations, and you know where to go if you ever have a problem. ;) jabevan@shistudios.com

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Unlimited bandwidth may not really exist.. people will claim to provide it.. until you actually get that busy. I use Icestorm. They have a number of different packages available. 500Mb sites with 10Gb of traffic are $25 a month. Less money for less space. No fees for startup. I became a 'reseller' for a one time charge of $85 and I get all my sites for only $15 a month (500mb each). The $85 pays for itself in 9 months then you are living large for cheap. The sites are fast and reliable.

Thanks everyone... now to look at these options.. this helps to narrow down my search a bit.. Mystic

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Friend of mine runs this... She does a good job, nice girl. You can check out the link here

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$15.00 bucks a month...500 megs space.

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There is no such thing as unlimited bandwidth. Read the terms of service and you will always find some kind of restriction. Avoid any with "our discretion" or vague limits based on "average" use like the plague. Unlimited space is just as much of a myth. Decide what you need, and find a host that offers it to you up front and honestly. You get what you pay for, so it pays to know what you're getting. I also don't advise a reseller. When you have to contact support, you want to be talking to the actual people who can help you, not someone who has to contact someone else to find out what's going on. (note: none of that's not a comment on any host mentioned, just general advice from someone who's run web sites since 1996 and had his share of really bad experiences ;) ) I use JaguarPC for my high traffic SciFi site. Their servers are red hot fast, support is responsive (believe me, that's important!), and their plans are very reasonably priced for what you get.

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Try there.

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Wise Source (my host) $30/quarter, $11/month Plan: HS-250-SP No Credit Card Needed! 250MB disk space 100 POP email accounts (web mail included) 5 MailMan mail lists 2500 MB monthly Transfer Our Lite-CP PHP4 , Perl , pre-installed cgi scripts FrontPage 2000- XP-2002 Extensions if needed Up to 5 "parked domains" free 30 Day Money Back Guarantee I've had Wise Source for over a year, and this guy is absolutely fabulous. You start out with a 1-month free trial period. Can't beat that.

Guys, with your recommendations, as it affects what we do here - graphics - it seems to me, that the key point is bandwidth. My provider - offers 10 gig/month @ $20 - the problem? overrun. They charge "only" $0.10/meg if you exceed 10 gig. They have Urchin, but it waits 12 hours into the next day to give the report. They have an auto cutoff utility, but that is only available at the $35/mo level. Piss me off??!!! Now, say you put up a 2 meg Vicki zip in Free Stuff, and it is really hot. You get 2000 hits in the first 24 hours. You have 4 gig of usage before you can see anything and after 36 hrs as much as 6 gig. If you were already close to your limit? You are cooked. Heaven forbid if you provide textures. And lot of storage space is a trap if you do not have the bandwidth to go with it. This is especially true if the material you store is available for download or viewing. Graphics files, even JPEGS, are relatively large. You remote link a thumbnail to a site with a lot a traffic, even a 10 k file, you would be surprised how fast it adds up. You have a site that is the web version of Red Bird, KY - one stop light and two visitors a week, no problem. You wind up with DisneyLand, whole nuther thing.

Thanks again for all the replies... Jaager, you make a good point.. I decided to only put things in freestuff only for 1 or 2 days, depending on the pull it got, because it never failed to over run me, then I would have what I was offering on my site for a month, the pull was less, because people would physically have to go there, it didn't pull so hard from asking people to go to my site, because not everyone tried to download at once, which was just killing me. I would like to know, how people just put so much stuff in the Freestuff area and not worry about the bandwidth. sigh there has to be a solution some where that I'm overlooking.. Thanks again everyone! Mystic

Nerd3D has been bouncing between hosts for 2 months. I believe I have finally found a home, Under-Host.com. The owner has worked with me to provide the 30+ GB that my site burns every month. They have very few restrictions and the servers are fast and reliable. (I can tell some horror stories, read about the Nerd's wandering at my news page.) Like Scifiguy said, read the TOS or AUP very carefully. Most places that claim "Unlimited Bandwidth" place so many restrictions on this that it is unobtainable. One of the most common restrictions is that no more than 50% of your traffic can be Images or Zips. That's exactly what a graphics site's bandwidth is, Images and Zips. Under Host claims unlimited bandwidth, but the folks that don't qualify (everybody) are limited to 20GB. Nerd3d now runns a mirror at nerd3d.NET to split up the load. My next stop will be a dedicated RaQ3 server at 4webspace.com that's 100GB/mo for $99. I'm sure I'll use that up too.

I totally disagree with Angel Michael about Colahost www.colahost.co.uk. Great pricing, woeful speeds. I've been with them now for about 3-4 months and have not hade a single problem. Uploading is just excellent too. And $20 PER YEAR for unlimited room and unlimited bandwidth, you just can't go wrong. I went to Colahost after being with another company, to whom I was paying $21.95 US per month ($47 Australian) for 200Mb of room and 6Gb of traffic. Can you guess I'm happy s

Xena your right.. it all sounds good, your site did load quite fast.. and if it doesn't work out.. I've only lost 20 dollars for the year, compared to the 249 dollars per year I've been paying.. I can't really lose on giving this a shot. worse comes to worse, I'm looking for a new home, but on the up side, this just might be the perfect home, or as close as I'm getting.. Thanks everyone for taking the time to reply! Mystic

Xena: woeful means full of woe, which is not a thing to celebrate. Maybe you meant wonderful?!

Ron, it was Angel Michael who said woeful, not me :) I do actually know the meaning of woe. I was disagreeing with him s