v25percent-OR-s20percent
Coupons for shared, reseller and VPS hosting (updated July 1, 2009):
- v25percent: recurring 25% off VPS hosting (2010-08-01 expiry)
- s20percent: recurring 20% off Shared hosting (never expires?)
Obviously, the best value is from getting a yearly purchase. For beginning to maybe even mid level sites, I recommend normal "web hosting", the "basic" plan should suffice for most.
Quick intro:
Hawkhost is a highly reputable web host, see sites such as http://webhostingtalk.com for confirmation, it is up there with other high rep shared hosting providers such as Steadfast and MediaLayer. Servers are based in US (data centres are geographically dispersed so almost negligible impact for most Australian users though)
Plan summary for recommended plan:
- 3 GB disk space
- 30 GB bandwidth per month (this is plenty, ignore hosts that over sell hundreds of GBs)
- Apache
- PHP 5 (what common scripts such as phpBB, osCommerce etc. use)
- Zend Optimiser for PHP and Ioncube Loader if needed
- Perl
- Python
- Ruby on Rails
- SSH access
- Mysql with unlimited databases
- PostgreSQL with no database limit
- Subversion and Trac (rare among web hosts)
Hosting features:
- 99.9% uptime with SLA (discount if service performs below 99.9%, complete refund if uptime is under 99%)
- No petty restrictions such as disallowing remote connections
- CPanel control panel (the gold standard for shared hosting)
- No limits on addon domains, FTP accounts, email accounts, subdomains etc.
- Plenty of included stats analysis tools, included scripts such as osCommerce and more
Total cost of ownership:
For the basic plan (3GB disk space and 30GB bandwidth):
~ $22 over a year (~$1.80 a month)
For the super plan (24GB disk space and 240GB bandwidth):
~ $70 over a year (~$6 a month)
Payment can be made through PayPal or credit card.
I recommend getting a WHOIS protected domain for about $7/year at 1and1.com and use that with the hosting.
Disclaimer: I done this to finally submit a deal after taking part in many after this and only found out about the affiliate program during writing this. If it is bad netiquette to use an affiliate link here, let me know and I'll take it down or you can simply remove the aff= part of the URL. Please note the affiliate link does not affect your order and I'd appreciate you keeping it in return for a hand written review and find after hours of research into reliable and cheap web hosts after having several bad experiences with previous hosts.
Seems like a top deal, shame I just renewed mine.. would be happy to use your affiliate link if I was going to :)