Their prices seem interesting, but the transfer allowance is low. 8 Gig a month is _very_ low for a site with any sort of graphics. If you get popular, you'll need more. They probably have divided the processing up across servers, with some servers handling MySQL and others mod_perl, and the servers are doing mostly page serving. But, they have probably packed in the users on the servers because of the low transfer allowance.
If you are starting up, and don't expect a lot of traffic at first, while you gear up, it may be a good deal... I'd wonder if they'd be able to offer the same service to a site that was doing .5 gig/day (15 gig/month).
Many hosting companies are geared to people setting up webpages that get 100 hits a day -- if that. That's what most websites do -- they are not interactive. They average the few higher end sites along with the dozens of inactive sites, and that's how they do it. Many hosts are sub-leasors of sub-lessors of bandwidth and/or space on other systems.
Decide what is important to you. If you are driven only by price, you will have to change hosts a lot, and deal with a lot more problems than if you pay more.
Paying more is _NOT_ always a sure way of getting more, and some hosts may really have excess resources and are willing to host you for any sort of traffic in the hopes you will stay with them.
When I looked around for prices and services, I looked at a lot of the adult hosting companies, since they are geared to high-bandwidth usage. The prices and bandwidth just didn't map out against the regular hosting companies, so I ended up going the dedicated route once again. We are definitely at one end of the Links spectrum -- our links are all images in the 50-100k range, with 5 15k thumbnails per page on average.
Make sure your bandwidth is adaquate and affordable. $6.50/gig if you buy 10 more gig it is only $65 -- on some hosts that could be as much as $650 !! $.10/meg is $100/gig
If you are starting up, and don't expect a lot of traffic at first, while you gear up, it may be a good deal... I'd wonder if they'd be able to offer the same service to a site that was doing .5 gig/day (15 gig/month).
Many hosting companies are geared to people setting up webpages that get 100 hits a day -- if that. That's what most websites do -- they are not interactive. They average the few higher end sites along with the dozens of inactive sites, and that's how they do it. Many hosts are sub-leasors of sub-lessors of bandwidth and/or space on other systems.
Decide what is important to you. If you are driven only by price, you will have to change hosts a lot, and deal with a lot more problems than if you pay more.
Paying more is _NOT_ always a sure way of getting more, and some hosts may really have excess resources and are willing to host you for any sort of traffic in the hopes you will stay with them.
When I looked around for prices and services, I looked at a lot of the adult hosting companies, since they are geared to high-bandwidth usage. The prices and bandwidth just didn't map out against the regular hosting companies, so I ended up going the dedicated route once again. We are definitely at one end of the Links spectrum -- our links are all images in the 50-100k range, with 5 15k thumbnails per page on average.
Make sure your bandwidth is adaquate and affordable. $6.50/gig if you buy 10 more gig it is only $65 -- on some hosts that could be as much as $650 !! $.10/meg is $100/gig
