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For a guild website, just needs to be as cheap as chips with MySQL databases, b/w and storage don't really matter. I'll need a domain with it.

Any reccomendations?
 
Another vote for Vida here, can't fault them
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Cheap as chips I'd recommend Dreamhost. The only problem I've had has been email outage a couple of times in six months, but never had any problems with frontend or backend outage.
 
Let me know what you need and i might be able to offer you it, hosting is perfect i have over 5 personal sites on the server.
 
Cheap as chips I'd recommend Dreamhost. The only problem I've had has been email outage a couple of times in six months, but never had any problems with frontend or backend outage.

Does Dreamhost still severely cap transfer speeds? I used to get a whopping 12KB/s uploading and like 80KB downloading.
 
Cheap and reliable? Never going to happen :) but i've been using Nethosted.co.uk for the last 5 years and although there not as cheap as some, there support and service make up for it.
 
Cheap and reliable? Never going to happen :)

You should expect 99.9%+ uptime with any of the top hosts listed on OcHostReview. :)

"Cheap" is subjective. But one thing is for sure - you won't find the decent hosts offering unlimited bandwidth, diskspace, domains etc, even if they are priced at the lower end of the market. :)
 
I wasn't slating any of the host mentioned - I was just saying that "Cheap and reliable" are never going to happen.

There is always a reason why something is cheap and 99.9% of the time you will never know why - but when you do, you always wish you paid that little bit more ;)
 
I wasn't slating any of the host mentioned - I was just saying that "Cheap and reliable" are never going to happen.

There is always a reason why something is cheap and 99.9% of the time you will never know why - but when you do, you always wish you paid that little bit more ;)

That has been the case in the past however the market has dictated that you should be able to get everything you need for next-to-nothing. Hosting providers have to offer that level of service to stay in business in the current climate.

However there's cheap and there's cheap.... I came across a "provider" the other day offering an unlimited "master reseller" account (lets you create sub-resellers) with unlimited disk space, unlimited bandwidth and unlimited domains for £5.99/year, £4.99 if you paid 5 years in advance!
 
I'd love to see what hardware there hosting that on... no doubt it will be a single overloaded shared server...

But for the majority of people that still performs fine for them :)
 
I'd love to see what hardware there hosting that on... no doubt it will be a single overloaded shared server...

But for the majority of people that still performs fine for them :)

Depends who you're referring to but I can safely say that, for 2 of the hosts mentioned here, that couldn't be further from the truth!

Edit: If you mean the £5.99/year, I think they're already out of business ;)
 
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The main guide is common sense really - if a host's site looks part-time, designed from a template, no address/phone number, they're likely just a kid in his bedroom somewhere.

Hardware-wise...IDE disk with a hamster attached :D
 
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