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HostMonk Prices and Sorts Web Hosts

lifehacker.com — If you're running your own web site, or planning to, you probably know exactly what kind of space, bandwidth, and features you'll need, along with a price point. HostMonk finds web hosts based on those preferences.

Who dugg this? Made popular Apr 1, 2009

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  • digdug135, on 04/01/2009, -1/+10Who is getting paid to get Host Monk on the front page multiple times?
  • timdorr, on 04/01/2009, -0/+5....yes: http://wiki.debian.org/ramfs
  • MrViklund, on 04/01/2009, -1/+5Isn't lifehacker.com about hacking your own life?
  • designcode, on 04/01/2009, -2/+6That seems to be sponsored article at lifehacker. That site hit the frontpage a few days ago.
    And as a matter of fact, I found the search totally pathetic. I just don't understand the range they've included in search

    Monthly price
    $1 - $100

    Disk space
    10GB - 100GB

    Memory
    256MB - 1GB

    What the hell?
  • commentbot, on 04/01/2009, -0/+3The 100GB RAM can probably host many web sites actually! But such amount of RAM is not only used to host a copy of your files and database for faster access (using ramfs), but also to handle many accesses because each time a user accesses a web site, he uses RAM. When you have many users accessing at the same time (ie: Digg itself), you need tons of RAM.

    http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2008/11/overview-of-ra ...
  • guyro, on 04/01/2009, -0/+3Yes there is - http://www.hostmonk.com/vps_hosting/provider:Slice ...
  • Swivelstick, on 04/01/2009, -0/+3appears???
  • kd1s, on 04/02/2009, -0/+2I use BlueHost. I got in on their $4.95 a month deal and signed for 3 years ($178). I get unlimited bandwidth and storage for web, 2500 email addresses for my domain, MySQL, PHP support, AWstats, Postini or SpamAssassin, and a host of other features that I haven't even looked at yet.

    Hell all I wanted was web and email. It's now $6.95 a month but even that isn't bad. The cheapest thing HosMonk found for me was $59 a month.
  • bipolarruledout, on 04/01/2009, -0/+2Except when you don't and it's a pain in the ass to switch hosting providers.
  • getjustin, on 04/01/2009, -1/+3This is for about 1% of people who need to host something that needs serious bandwidth....the rest of us use affordable shared hosting.
  • linuxlucas, on 04/01/2009, -2/+4If you need 10-100gb of disk space or bandwidth, you already know which host you will use.
    Most expensive package is $2949.00: 4 x Intel Xeon E7310, 1GB Space, 96GB Memory, 4800GB Bandwidth.
    Something is really really wrong there... are you planning to store the website in the memory??
  • brisketplease, on 04/01/2009, -0/+2really easy to criticize. try doing something yourself!
  • javaroast, on 04/01/2009, -0/+2No, it appears lifehacker.com is a blog spam purveyor
  • blapierre, on 04/01/2009, -0/+2I agree. I'm just the messenger.
  • potatolicious, on 04/01/2009, -0/+1That kind of machine is completely justified for a large, dynamic website with an ass-load of traffic. First, if you're hosting static files and people are hitting it like mad, you want the entire file in RAM, otherwise your system will grind to a halt as 10000 users fight for a single poor read-write head on a platter. For a large, busy file server a ludicrous amount of RAM would help.

    Not only that, for dynamic sites that kind of RAM can be used to cache your database queries like no tomorrow. Every time you hit the database you're touching hard disk, and even if you cache the contents of the database in RAM you're still potentially incurring large CPU overhead for common queries - better to cache your result sets also.

    Anyways, long story short, if your site demands it, 96GB of RAM is absolutely justified, and in some cases that I'm aware of, not even enough.
  • potatolicious, on 04/01/2009, -0/+1Why in the hell would anyone put in a 10-year subscription for anything, much less an internet company? I use Dreamhost too, but that is just stupid.
  • Calculon, on 04/01/2009, -3/+4No http://www.slicehost.com/ ?
  • Bamboolemur, on 04/01/2009, -1/+2Spam. Why is this on the front page. AGAIN?
  • jshpro2, on 04/01/2009, -2/+2Buried as spam. Most shared hosting is dirt cheap anyways, would it make more sense to build a "hostmonk" that targetted colocation & dedicated servers?
  • IvanGroznyt2323, on 04/01/2009, -2/+1Give me two!
  • blapierre, on 04/01/2009, -4/+3Hmm, it appears they left out Dreamhost.

    I've been using them for a couple years and their prices/features can't be beat.

    They are currently running a promotion for their 11th anniversary, you get unlimited storage and unlimited bandwidth. Prices are $10.95/month if you pay monthly, $5.95/month if you pay for 10 years, and a variable amount if you pay for <10 years.

    I set up a promotional code for anyone that wants $10 off: DIGGHOSTING

    Or use a referral link: http://www.dreamhost.com/r.cgi?373656

    Or just go to their website: http://www.dreamhost.com
  • LeviTheSmith, on 04/01/2009, -6/+2Mortal Kombat II is a fun game.

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