Rourke on Technology

You would be hard-pressed to find negative comments or blog posts about pair’s shared hosting. Most people report that pair’s service is expensive, but worh the price. I was a user of said service for about six months, and agree with that sentiment.

The least expensive plan that allows you to host a dynamic site is $17.95/month. That price puts pair among the more expensive shared hosting providers out there. You don’t get anything fancy for that, but you can host as many sites as you want. A $5 setup fee is charged whenever you add new domains to your account. There’s no extra recurring charge if you share a single IP address across all of your domains, and only an additional $1/month for each extra dedicated IP. this is the best option I’ve come across if you need an IP address for each domain you host.

Liquidweb is fast, user friendly, and reliable. I would be a happy Liquidweb customer today if the basic shared hosting plan allowed customers to host more than three domains. I have not seen a single bad thing said about LW’s service and my experience was entirely positive. My experience showed this host be among the fastest and most reliable. At $14.95/month, service is less expensive than PAIR or MediaTemple, but more than most of the share hosting services out there.

I wanted to like TextDrive. I really did. They have an active online community. They have an amazing range of services available so your hosting solution can easily grow with your needs. They’re endorsed by David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails. Unfortunately, my experience with TextDrive was awful.

Dreammhost is a great value as long as you know what you’re buying. For less than six dollars a month you get a fully-featured shared hosting account with extremely generous storage and bandwith limits. Understand, though, that you are not getting a fast or reliable web host.

THE GOOD: Dreamhost accounts have every feature you could imagine. FTP, SSH, and secure email are all supported. The latest versions of Perl, PHP, MySQL, and Python are there, as you’d expect. Ruby on Rails is also available and fully suported. Beyond the above, expected feature, Dreamhost also offers Subversion repositories, streaming media servers, Jabber servers, and more.