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[Guilherme]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

My question is this: What FIRST Robotics website (other than Chief Delphi) could possible require nearly $100 per year for hosting? That is outrageous. Is there some special reason you need 10 gigs of online hosting? What website could you possibly build to be that large? Also, I advise you to look at some reviews like these:
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showth...ight=ipowerweb
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showth...ight=ipowerweb
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showth...ight=ipowerweb
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showth...ight=ipowerweb
of your potentially soon to be new host.

There are cheaper and better hosts out there.

1) Several Brazilian Teams support FIRST Brazil website. The payment method should be a national invoice (not credit card and etc). If we move to an web hosting in another country, we'll have to pay for it.

2) We pay $10 monthly for 400mb 4gb traffic. This month our bandwith went to 3gb. I can't upload anymore videos or big files. Space has finished.

We're stuck in brazilian servers and we cannot move for now.

...So I think we'll keep using this web host for now, it's the best we've got.

[DarkJedi613]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

My question is this: What FIRST Robotics website (other than Chief Delphi) could possible require nearly $100 per year for hosting? That is outrageous. Is there some special reason you need 10 gigs of online hosting? What website could you possibly build to be that large? Also, I advise you to look at some reviews like these:
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showth...ight=ipowerweb
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showth...ight=ipowerweb
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showth...ight=ipowerweb
of your potentially soon to be new host.

There are cheaper and better hosts out there.

Personally we've never had trouble w/ iPowerWeb, everything has worked and their support has been fine whenever we've needed it. $95/year is $7.95 a month...not much more expensive than anyone else seems to be. Also the reason we use it is because true...we don't need all that room or bandwidth, but for a little extra a month we have it. Best bang for the buck.

So, basically if someone asked - I would recommend iPowerWeb to them.

[Mike AA]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

My question is this: What FIRST Robotics website (other than Chief Delphi) could possible require nearly $100 per year for hosting? That is outrageous. Is there some special reason you need 10 gigs of online hosting? What website could you possibly build to be that large? Also, I advise you to look at some reviews like these:
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showth...ight=ipowerweb
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showth...ight=ipowerweb
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showth...ight=ipowerweb
of your potentially soon to be new host.

There are cheaper and better hosts out there.

Our website actually costs me, actually my business M-Pute, about $109 a month But this is because I am connected to an sDSL line (guaranteed speed) and I run my own webserver and 4+ websites. Unlimited bandwidth and about 1TB of storage.

To me anyone in FIRST should work through SEVAA. Its free to any FIRST team and there wouldn't be any paperwork to get approved and any country should be able to log into their servers to update the team's website.

-Mike

I use Surpass Hosting

$59 a year for 5GB/100GB, and you can host 2 domains.

[burkey_turkey]

i use www.dot5hosting.com

you get a terabyte of transfer and 100 gigs of space for only $4.00 a month. using the coupon code '5 % OFF' at registration can get you 5% off and drop it to about $3.80 a month. this all at about $45 a year. you get tons of other stuff like php and mysql and cpanel and just about anything you want. you also get a free domain for life! i really like using them and am very satisfied, i recommend them to anyone looking for low cost hosting

[hallk]

Our site is donated by one of our sponsors. thebubbler.com a local company that designs websites. A partnership like this works out great, espically since one of our members now has an internship there.

[Cjmovie]

Our team uses part of my hosting plan from http://dreamhost.com/
I have the L3 plan, which gives me upwards of 400GB of disk space and near 5TB of bandwidth (it grows weekly). However, they have plans starting at $9.95 for monthly payments or you can get what I believe is 20% off if you pay 2 years in advance. Also, you can find tons of user-made promo codes that will knock $97 off the price of yearly or bi-yearly plans. Which makes the first year of hosting only a couple dollars for L1.

Also, they're a big host (A couple hundred thousand hosted sites) which means they know their stuff. I haven't had but 1-2 downtimes in the few years I've used them, and that was because their entire data center lost power (which, IIRC, is the same one with Myspace housed inside it).

[fimmel]

i currently use 1and1 the Linux business hosting package works great. (3 domain names, 200gigs of storage, 2terabytes of monthly bandwidth, 2000 email addresses, 50 mysql databases, 200 subdomains, and its only 10$ a month. i use it for my teams site, and a separate one for myself. works great.
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[cjelly]

Our school has strict policies regarding where our robotics team (or any other club/group in the school) hosts its site. Therefore, we are required to host on our school's own server, which is a good thing really, because it theoretically means no quota for disk space (other than the amount of storage that the server itself has). We also have more control over the site this way. So, we have the good old town.k12.state.us URL.

Personally, I host my website with godaddy and I have the Deluxe Linux hosting package.

[Greg Marra]

Res and a half! This thread is almost a year old!

I've seen a few other "who do you host with?" threads pop up in the interim, and I'm sure a quick search could answer all your web hosting question needs.

[Night]

Amazing hosting:

Servage.net

250 GB Disk Space, 2100 GB Bandwidth, Unlimited FTP accounts, 1000 MySQL DB (v4 and v5), 1 free domain name, and much more.

$7.50 a month.

That is way more than most sites need, and for a price cheaper than mosts sites who offer a tenth of the services this site offers.

[NinJA999]

While I think our team *might* use our own servers, I personally have had great success with duport online.