Please help me in choosing web hosting

[0as]

Hi everyone,
I am sorry for possible offtopic, but I need your help in find new web hosting provider as soon as possible, because my current host (bluehost.com) is kicking me off, they say 'your account is using a lot server resources', but my website gets only about 200 visitors per day and my disk usage is 1500 MB (maybe they do not like that?)

Anyway, what would be your recommendations for getting reliable web hosting? Where are you hosting your websites? Are you happy with your providers?

I am now checking http://www.hosting24.com/ - offer looks very nice, but is it real that they can provide unlimited disk space?
I have contacted them about this question and they say something that "These days 500GB disk drive costs only $30 per month, so if some day we will run out of disk space we will simply add new 500GB disk drive with almost zero costs and you can continue uploading without any problems".

What do you think about it? Maybe things have changed in last 4 years? With my current provider I get only 2GB of disk space for $10 per month..
Any ideas and suggestions are much appreciated.

[SuburaNation]

2G's for $10! What a ripoff. I have a thumb drive with more storage than that.

I've designed many websites and have had good luck recently (after switching from an unnamed provider whose servers crashed repeatedly) with AplusNet. They provide 200 G of storage and 2000 G of transfer per month for about $8. I think the basic business plan is the most cost effective, but they have several plans available.

http://www.aplus.net/hosting/business/

[Kevin]

you can't compare the cost of storage online to the cost of retail hard drives which you use at home. It's totally different.

Not heard of hosting24 before but they look pretty reasonable. I dont recommend getting your domain through them though, make sure you go with a seperate domain provider.

Also, they promote the fact that they have no limits ofof bandwidth etc. This is never the case i.e. if you do use a lot of bandwidth they will either charge you for it or switch off your site.

[ap4a]

Personally I wouldn't want to rely on the services of any host that offers 200 G of storage and 2000 G of transfer per month for about $8.

[wahmsuzanne]

I'm using HostGator and I've been so happy with them. Truthfully ... I don't know how much space or usage I get with them ... but I called them when I was starting my blogging bootcamp lessons and told them that I wanted to put my training videos directly on my blog instead of using youtube or another video hosting service and they said no problem. I have no idea what, if anything, I would have to do to get kicked off (or forced upgrade) with them ... does anyone know? Thanks for the good topic. *SmiLes* Suzanne

[coffee33]

Well I personally use a few different hosting companies for my websites. I personally use and have used Yahoo, hostgator, godaddy.com, 3ix, and bluehost. I would say that bluehost is my favorite, mainly because of the pricing and the phenomenal customer service. You can have as many sites as you want on their plan. hostgator is also very good and very good with the customer service. Yahoo is good, but expensive, and the customer service is harder to reach. Godaddy is good, but again a little expensive and the customer service is long distance if you need a quick answer for your hosting. The least favorite by far is 3ix, Yes they are the cheapest, but it seems that the websites are never up and running, the servers are always down. Customer service is tough to reach as well. I hope this helps, I have dealt with a lot of these web hosting companies, and I would recommend either bluehost or hostgator, very good all around for your web hosting.