Free/cheap ASP web host needed.

[yes4me]

Hi,


I have a very small personal website. I expect less than 100MB hits per month. I am currently located in US, and expect almost all hits to be within the US.


Required features:
- +15 MB web space
- Run ASP code and allows to write/read files
- 24x7 FTP access
- No file size and type restriction (Currently the largest file is 1.7MB)
- No advertisement or any extra Javascript popup window of any sort

Optional features:
- Web Statistics
- Flash files (e.g. *.swf)
- Custom 404 errors


I have search all days long, and you guys are probably my last hope. Because my website is actually only 10MB, but I expect it to grow up to 15 MB maximum by the end of this year.


Sincerely,


Thomas

[northwind]

Can you inform us of your budget so we know if we should post or not. =)

[D MaN]

Crazy Technology runs ASP for Perl Module, would that work for you? Everything else we offer, and can give you a very low price.

[yes4me]

Because my website is so small, I don't expect to spend more than $5 a month. The purpose of this website is just to help me find a job by showing some of my accomplishments. The website by itself is mainly written in XHTML and JavaScript.

The reason why I need ASP is because I wrote my own search engine and my own (but very basic) message board.

[CareBear]

Originally posted by D MaN
Crazy Technology runs ASP for Perl Module, would that work for you? Everything else we offer, and can give you a very low price. ASP for Perl is useless IMO... it's just regular Perl with named objects that resemble ASP names (Server, Response, Request, etc). It won't run any actual ASP scripts.
The best analogy I can think of is offering an English dictionary and saying you can use it to spell check French because it has words like "déja vu" and "haute cuisine" in it.
The only way ASP will work on Linux is Sun's ASP or another one I can't recall right now. But given the price it's probably cheaper for the host to get a license for Windows 2000/2003 Server.

Do you need domain hosting? Otherwise Brinkster (http://www.brinkster.com) might suffice for you. I'm not all sure about max file sizes though.

[yes4me]

Well I did some research thanks to this website, and here is what I found so far:


http://www.u69.us
SPECS:
- Cost FREE!!
- SIZE: Accounts are between 10 and 75 MB in size depending on your forum membership level
- transfert: 1 GB
- Static IP: UNKNOWN
NOTES:
- Files supported: HTM, HTML, SHTML, PHP, PHP3, PHP4, ASP, CGI, JS, CSS, PL, JPG, JPEG, GIF, PNG, & SWF
- No ZIP files
- We do support webalizer web statistics, flash files, and custom error documents.

VERDICT: NO
Very nice features for a free webhost, but like most people, I have a lot of ZIP files.


http://www.brinkster.com
SPECS:
- Cost: $4.95(General Free), $3.95 + SETUP fee $3.95(General SE)
- SIZE: 30 MB
- transfert: 500 MB(General Free), 2 GB(General SE)
- Static IP: UNKNOWN
NOTES:
- NO traffic stats
- NO custom errors

VERDICT: NO
A higher price than the cheapest web hos, and lacks essencial features like traffic stats.


http://www.maxipoint.net
SPECS:
- Cost $3.99 (maxipoint.net)
- SIZE: 25MB
- transfert: unlimited
- Static IP: YES
example of web sites hosted:
- Privacy = cannot give example!
NOTES:
- QUICK EMAIL REPLY
- All requirements met!!

VERDICT: NO
For $1 extra dollar per month, you can get twice the size at web host like http://dsensehosting.net/


http://dsensehosting.net/
SPECS:
- Cost $4.95 (Plan WS)
- SIZE: 50MB
- transfert: 1000 MB
- Static IP: UNKNOWN
example of web sites hosted:
- greenstarr.com
- trampolinefilms.com
- indianahardwoodspec.com
NOTES:
- QUICK EMAIL REPLY
- All requirements met!!

VERDICT: NO
http://hostdepartment.com/ is better because it has twice the size.


http://hostdepartment.com/
SPECS:
- Cost $5.00 (Windows 2000 Server Express)
- SIZE: 100MB
- transfert: 3GB
- Static IP: NO
example of web sites hosted:
- http://www.aaapostcards.com/
- http://www.aaafreebies.com/
NOTES:
- QUICK EMAIL REPLY
- All requirements met!!

VERDICT: YES
http://www.amazinghost.net/ provides a static IP, but with this one, I am 100% sure I get 100MB.


http://www.amazinghost.net/
SPECS:
- Cost $4.95 (Basic Plan)
- SIZE: 50mb/100mb
- Transfert: unmetered
- Static IP: YES
example of web sites hosted:
- http://diplodock.com/
- http://nonprofitcard.com/
- http://comp-gurus.biz/
- http://hit-o-meter.com
NOTES:
- QUICK EMAIL REPLY
- All requirements met!!
- http://www.amzhost.com/knowledge/

VERDICT: GOOD



Looks like http://www.amazinghost.net/ and http://hostdepartment.com/ are the best and cheapest webhosts. Does anyone use it before? Are they actually that good like they say? Do you know any better web host?

[yes4me]

The two ones I was about to buy had terrible reviews, in particular the hostdepartment one.


After doing a huge search all around, I am down to the following sites:

http://endore.com/hosting-iis.htm
http://www.stpwebhosting.com/webhosting.htm
http://www.dsensehosting.net/hostingplans-windows.php
http://www.itplushost.com/hostingpackages.asp
http://www.savinghosting.com/?hop=whratings.savinghost

Any recommendation?

[yes4me]

I went with http://www.savinghosting.com.
So far they are pretty good and cheap.

All the others one have various issues (e.g. they required a domain name).