What are your webhosts specs?

[Mentor]

I was board and having a read through the web hosting section, and got to think as to what the habbox web developers actually do host with in the end?

Do you go for a huge spec at a high price or somewhere more in the middle ground?

To make looking through simple, it'd be great if people would follow this template :)

Disk space:
Bandwidth:
Databases:
Domains:
Shell access:
Email:
Languages:

How long been with company:
How long companys run:
Any issues:
Name of company:
Price (that you pay):


My own answer to this is:

Disk space: unlimited
Bandwidth: unlimited
Databases: unlimited
Domains: unlimited
Shell access: yes, full
Email: unlimited (forwarding/hosted/gmail/ect)
Languages: php4/php5, ruby(+rails), perl, python, SSI, C/C+(via shell)

How long been with company: year + few months
How long companys run: 10 years +
Any issues: My sites been down 1/2 hour in time ive been with em, support fixed as soon as contacted
Name of company: Dreamhost
Price (that you pay): £72 P/A

[Protege]

Disk space: 25 GB (With a 15 GB offline backup)
Bandwidth: 500 GB
Databases: unlimited
Domains: unlimited
Shell access: yes, full
Email: unlimited (forwarding/hosted/gmail/ect)
Languages: php4/php5, ruby(+rails), perl, python, SSI, C/C+(via shell)

How long been with company: Since 2004
How long companys run: No idea
Any issues: Don't ask.
Name of company: iFuseHosting
Price (that you pay): £22.49 P/M

[Recursion]

Disk space: 2.5GB
Bandwidth: 100 GB
Databases: Unlimited
Domains: Addon and Parked: 5, Sub-domains, Unlimited.
Shell access: Don't think so, don't need it though.
Email: Unlimited
Languages: All the usual stuff LOL

How long been with company: Since the start of 2009 maybe?
How long companys run: Gunna guess 2004 by their Copyright.
Any issues: None!
Name of company: iFuseHosting
Price (that you pay): £2.50 p/m

It's a custom package.

[Source]

Disk space: 250gb X 2
Bandwidth: 4000GB
Databases: Unlimited
Domains: Unlimited
Shell access: Root
Email: Unlimited / POP3
Languages: All ?

How long been with company: 2 Years
How long companys run: God knows, rapidswitch.com
Any issues: None, fantastic network
Name of company: Rapidswitch
Price (that you pay): 110 month /inc VAT

[MrPinkPanther]

One thing I've never understood with hosting is why small sites like Habbo Fansites go for packages that are like 20GB diskspace, 1GB is probably too much. I can see why you'd want loads of bandwidth but not diskspace.

[Blob]

Disk space: unmetered
Bandwidth: unmetered
Databases: unmetered
Domains: unmetered
Shell access: yes
Email: yes
Languages: english

How long been with company: since it began
How long companys run: dunno few months
Any issues: nope
Name of company: froobe
Price (that you pay): nothing my mate pays for it all :)

[Mentor]

One thing I've never understood with hosting is why small sites like Habbo Fansites go for packages that are like 20GB diskspace, 1GB is probably too much. I can see why you'd want loads of bandwidth but not diskspace.
I'm not really sure, people do tend to massively overestimate there needs, i generally use the one package to host all my domains/projects so whats not used now will likely eventually fill :p (plus its helps to prevent getting caught out if you suddenly end up on a digg front page or something)

[MrPinkPanther]

I'm not really sure, people do tend to massively overestimate there needs, i generally use the one package to host all my domains/projects so whats not used now will likely eventually fill :p (plus its helps to prevent getting caught out if you suddenly end up on a digg front page or something)
I don't know about you but I'd personally rather go with a company that doesn't promise what it can't give. I have no problem with overselling but if I have "unlimited" diskspace I expect to be able to use tens of gigabytes of diskspace which many hosts who are "unlimited" won't allow. Therefore I would go a reputable company and only buy a small amount of storage, then I know in the future if I am featured on the Digg homepage then there is room for rapid expansion.

[Mentor]

I don't know about you but I'd personally rather go with a company that doesn't promise what it can't give. I have no problem with overselling but if I have "unlimited" diskspace I expect to be able to use tens of gigabytes of diskspace which many hosts who are "unlimited" won't allow. Therefore I would go a reputable company and only buy a small amount of storage, then I know in the future if I am featured on the Digg homepage then there is room for rapid expansion.
Well, my host when I originally started with em provided 50gb diskspace and 4 TB of bandwidth, which for most sites is pretty much unlimited :p Recently i guess they decided just to go for the full Monty. Dreamhost is a very established and very large company, who've hosted plenty of sites that have made it to the front pages of digg/reddit/slashdot etc and held up without complaint.
Equally, although disk space bandwidth are unlimited, processor time isn't, which keeps its capability within reason. That said, i can seamlessly move straight to a VPS if needed, too secure whatever memory requirements i made need. So i would vouch for dreamhosts unlimitedness on the other aspects and they are very upfront with the limitation's too :)

[Chippiewill]

They aren't my host however I recommend them as they have great reliability:

Disk space: 1gb
Bandwidth: 75gb
Databases: n/a
Domains: Must use .squarespace (Better packages can use any)
Shell access: yes
Email: yes
Languages: english

How long been with company: Never, want to be so mucht though
How long companys run: No idea
Any issues: Can't really happen with them
Name of company: SquareSpace
Price (that you pay): $8

squarespace.com, they use a site builder however it is very advanced, you can edit the CSS e.t.c. the inbuilt systems are very good

This is their full feature list (On best package):




Custom URL
5 GB Storage (Doesn't include some stuff, basically only things which are specifically uploaded count...)
400 GB/mo Bandwidth
URL Shortcuts
6 Custom Audiences
Unlimited Members
Unlimited Editors
Member Subscriptions
Drop Box Module
Per-Page Stylesheets
HTML Injection Points
SSL Security
FAQ Builder
Email Template Control
Form Builder
Public Registration

The final reason for going with them (Which is the best reason), is that the only reason for downtime is if the entire internet basically turned off, they use cloud internet computing. Meaning they have hundreds of servers round the globe constantly syncing so that your site can have guaranteed 100% Uptime (Except in extraordinary circumstances).