Web Hosting For Applications

Question

I need a reliable web host that provides plenty of bandwidth for downloads at minimal cost. I am going to provide freeware, but not open source (so that rules out SourceForge and other open source hosts).

Does anyone have any recommendations?

Answer 1

I've recently started using Gandi, and I like the system, and its fairly cheap.

Answer 2

hostmonster.com is now unlimited bandwidth and space if I remember correctly. It is insane, though I think at about $6 USD/mo.

Answer 3

Well, what kind of hosting do you need? If it's .NET, that rules out all the *nix hosting solutions. In regards to the programming...

Answer 4

It depends: what kind of bandwidth and storage space are we looking for?

My suggestion is to start off with Nearly Free Speech: they are a few cents a month if your site doesn't have a lot of traffic, and they support everything you need for a simple site (PHP, MySQL, Python, some other stuff). When your project grows beyond the point where their business model is cost-effective, you can move to Dreamhost or HostMonster.

If you think you'll have a lot of bandwidth/storage usage early-on, it may be better to go with Dreamhost/HostMonster immediately. Look at this page for information to calculate whether this is the case.

Answer 5

Along with everything that's already been mentioned, it may be worth looking into a CDN like Amazon Cloudfront right off the bat. It's not particularly difficult to upload files to, and it may save you a lot of pain later on if your application takes off.

Answer 6

I recommended to this http://www.xnynz.com/ .Here i found the reliable web hosting packages.Each plan has more features. I host my site here with lot of features.