Well, I have yet to see this topic crop up. What are the best webhosts for imageboards?
Features to consider:
*Allow adult boards
*Fairly high bandwidth and diskspace (inb4 LOL ONLY 3 POSTERZ ROFFLE)
*Reliable uptime
*Support for wide variety of languages (comes up all the time in regards to Perl)
*Will auto-ban your account for using serissa
So, what host do the anons of /soc/ use?
Good point, but I didn't want cheap price to overshadow quality.
>>1
host it yourself. if your site is going to be up for more than about a year, it's a lot cheaper to buy a computer to use as a server and just pay for the bandwidth than to pay for hosting.
unless you're in some crappy country where bandwidth is ridiculously expensive, that is.
I use PowWeb, but they have a strict worksafe policy. However, you get a ton of space and bandwidth for cheap.
I used to use DreamHost, which I would recommend over anything.
>>6
I'm not a troll in the least. They have the perfect package for anyone who wants to host imageboards, as long as they plan on keeping it legal. Look at all the imagebaords that are currently hosted on Dreamhost. Looking at 2ch.us, I can say at least a good 70% are hosted there.
The Planet. They kick ass.
If you don't expect your imageboard to become popular use a computer on your connection.
Dreamhost is pretty good as long as you keep your CPU load down and don't expect 100% uptime. For the price, the bandwidth is just fantastic.
>>14
Please ban him.
Fucking troll, he's fagging up every board he finds.
How do you necessary host a website on your computer? WTF?
> unless you're in some crappy country where bandwidth is ridiculously expensive, that is.
I guess this includes USA since most ISP terms of service here won't let you run servers, although actual bandwidth caps aren't too common.
Unless you were suggesting colocation? I haven't seen that cheaper then $50-70/month.
but what is the best Host? this thread doesn't make me wiser.
I'm about to start an imageboard too.
Things that are inportent to me:
> unlimited bandwith
You're already setting yourself up for failure.
>>20
One, it's not wise to register domains through your web host.
Two, if those are your requirements, give up now.
- Adult content will rule out a lot of quality hosts right off.
- 99% of hosts claiming unlimited bandwidth are marketing bullshit. There's no such thing. They will bust your ass as soon as you use more than a few GB.
- In the very odd case you manage to find a host that actually will commit to these requirements it will either cost much more than 120 bux per year or will be horribly-managed shit that goes under in 2 months.
>Unlimited Bandwith
They claim "Unlimited Bandwith" but what they really mean is "We will start you with a little and keep giving you more until we run out and then we are fucked"
>>23
Or "we don't pay attention to how much you are using until our limits are getting tight, and then we will terminate your account because we're fuckwads"
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