$8 a month webhosting, good deal??

I haven't done much research as far as pricing goes on website hosting, but with my small site I pay $8 a month (around 25 megs of space, light traffic). I've only compared with a few other sites, so I'm curious as to know if I'm getting a great deal or not?

Howdy Duffman,

http://www.powweb.com/ is US$7.77 per month (plus free 2 months extra)

You get the following:
Disk Space (Raid Storage) 1,000 MB
Data Transfer/Bandwidth 65 GB/mo.
POP3/IMAP Email & SMTP 650
Catch-All Email/Email Forwarding
New Domain Name/ Transfer* FREE!
10 FTP Users (Unlimited FTP Access)
CGI-BIN, SSI, .htaccess, Cronjobs
Web-Based Email (secure)
Member Operations Control Panel
Control Panel Web Users 25
PHP4 w/ Zend Optimizer, Perl5, Sendmail
FrontPage 98/2000/2002 Ext.
Webstats, Raw Log Files
Built in osCommerce (Shopping Cart) FREE!
Secure Socket Layer (Secure Server) INCLUDED!
24/7 Fast & Responsive Support
7 Days Telephone Support!
DNS Control ( A record, Cnames, MX records)
MySQL Database INCLUDED!
Flash, Shockwave, Midi, Mulitmedia Support
99.7% Uptime and Reliability

I've been with them a while now and have put all my clients on their servers as well - I love them!

The thing I like is that there is a HUGE powweb community forum in which thousands of people particilate - so basically any questions I have get answers quickly

Sorry to sound like an advert but you did ask!

Cheers,
Rose

dont be sorry for promoting them, they sound awesome!!

Thanks, I'm going to look into them.

I agree with rose, they are great!

I have had minimal downtime, and it is always very fast. And with one gig of storage you can't beat it :-p

For the amount of space you need that price is a bit high. Look around and you may find some better deals for small sites.

this is my favorite:
http://www.doteasy.com

ok not trying to be a bad guy here but

1. PowWeb insanly oversells.
2. I'm sure you could find a lil something for $2 for such a small site.
3. I am starting a hosting company soon and I should have the servers ready by next month/year Just the site wont be done....if you are willing to go without my site being up for awhile then I could give you 50 megs space and 500 megs bandwidth for $1.50 - $1.99

And Im not trying to spam here or anything im just showing you that its possible to get what you need at a low low price in other places....yea that comes with alot more but do you need it?

Kyle

WOW! so you can set up 10 websites or you can set up as many as you want!

Sounds too good to be true and I would need to test a client website fot that.

no no....its 10 users...like i guess if you were to have 10 people that edit the site.... just 10 usernames and passwords to get to the same FTP/hosting account.

oh dear my UK host gives me 10 domains and 5 ftp accounts for that price but I get much less bandwidth + webspace.

Guess you get what you pay for!

Kylebacc,

How does powweb oversell?

well in webhosting terms...overselling is like.... if they have (we are going to use small numbers) if they have 10 gb of transfer to sell... they might sell 3 or 4 plans with 5 gb of transfer....because they know that they are not going to use all of there bandwidth so they sell it again...im not saying other hosts dont do it...but thats why my hosting site is for small sites....so i cant oversell (cuz i would be tempted to if i were hosting lager accounts )

Gotcha, that makes sense but for what it's worth 7.77 a month still isn't a bad deal.

i guess...but what happens when they oversell to much? then half there network goes down?

just gotta have faith!