web hosting recommendation

**bella** · October 21st, 2004, 08:13 AM

hi everyone, I'm looking for a great hosting plan- $100-$150/ month. Any recommendations. Has anyone heard of One World Hosting or Fat Cow Hosting (I see the ad in Mac Addict) Thanks

**Dusky** · October 21st, 2004, 08:48 AM

I'm looking for a great hosting plan- $100-$150/ month

Are you sure you mean 100 to 150 bucks a month?

How much webspace do you need? How much bandwidth? CGI? PHP? POP/IMAP?

icdsoft keeps me happy. 333MB space, 5GB bandwidth, five bucks a month the first year, and forty bucks a year upon renewal the following year.

**bella** · October 21st, 2004, 09:13 AM

oh, I meant in a year!

**Dusky** · October 21st, 2004, 09:38 AM

The response is the same, icdsoft.com. They have a business plan of ten bucks a month, offering 999MB webspace and 15GB bandwidth. That's more than I'll ever need, but hey, if your site is that popular, more power to you.

Edited to add: I've seen other Mac users recommending 1and1.com. They are certainly cheap... even cheaper than icdsoft.com.

**bella** · October 21st, 2004, 09:57 AM

Thanks, currently I'm only using 1/3 of my 150 MB at about $10/month, but I do not recommend fortunecity.com, server has been down. I'll look into icdsoft.com...

**ElDiabloConCaca** · October 21st, 2004, 11:28 AM

I use Server Logistics, at http://www.serverlogistics.com. You can sign up online without hassle -- $10/month, 100MB web space, POP/IMAP email accounts, PHP, CGI, MySQL database, SSH, FTP, SFTP, 5GB transfer per month. Perfect for a medium-sized site. That's their minimum package, so if you need more, they've got it.

All hosted with Mac OS X Server, so if you like the platform, they've got it. They also distribute packages for PHP, MySQL and Apache and offer Mac OS X specific installers for each, in case you wanna host something with your own machine.

Not the greatest deal in the world, but their uptime is phenomenal and support is top-notch.