I'm comparing the services for basic web hosting offered by best.com and
pair.com. I have had Best recommended to me by a number of people I know,
but I also have seen several individuals on this list recommend pair.com
(of course their are thousands of other web hosts, but I can't look at them
all).
I would be interested in hearing from people who host sites at pair.com.
Note: when I say below that a service is "technically complex", I mean that
there is no simple web-based interface for setting it up. I am not a perl
or cgi expert, so for me, a simple non-programming interface saves me a lot
of time. If I have to telnet in and make changes to a script at the command
line, that's more than I like to do. <G>
Thanks,
Barry Lee Brisco
COMPARISON
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"Basic 100" hosting at best.com includes:
25Mb disk space
max. traffic 5,000 hits/day or 100Mb/day
cgi access - max. 1,000 secs/day
1 POP email plus 5 virtual addresses (I think)
WebTrends site stats software is free
Form support is free, but technically more complex than at Simplenet.com
Password protection is free but technically complex
"Swish" site indexer/search function is free but technically complex
Don't appear to support (but may) offer RealAudio "pseudo-streaming"
Price:
$24.95/month ($30/month includes dial-up)
$30 setup (without domain registration)
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pair.com basic hosting offers:
40Mb disk space
max. traffic 200Mb/day (additional at $4/10Mb)
cgi scripts from their "library" of scripts ("Advanced" account for custom
scripts is additional for another $12/month)
(includes sophisticated web form support and a guestbook)
1 POP email (additional POP email addresses are $1/month)
Anonymous FTP for site visitors to download large files
Site stats are free using the freeware Analog package
(http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~sret1/analog/)
(sample Analog results at http://support.pair.com/howto/analog_sample.html)
Password protection is free but technically complex
"Swish" site indexer/search function is free but technically complex
(documentation at http://www.rpi.edu/dept/library/swish.11/docs/swish.html )
Support RealAudio "pseudo-streaming"
Price:
$17.95/month (8% discount for paying annually)
$40 setup (without domain registration)
no extra fees for upgrading or "downgrading" account services
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