Aaron Donohoe

I’m looking for a host for a few turnover development websites, probably hosting for around 10-15 websites, mostly blogs.

I’m looking for hosting with the following specs:

• cPanel (reseller account with WHM preferred)
• Around 4GB space, and a suggestible amount of Bandwidth
• Decent Uptime, and Server Specs
• A Reasonable Monthly fee, I have few intentions of paying annually anymore as I’ve been burnt too many times with those ‘Fly by Night‘ hosts who take your annual fee and run after a month!
• Unlimited Databases and Email Aliases/Forwarding
• If Shared Hosting, Unlimited Addon Domains or atlease 15 addon domains
• Support not essential - I’ve enough experience with cPanel and WHM to be able to sort myself out unless it’s a server or backend problem

Can you suggest any hosts? I’m looking for personal experiences with such hosts, but bear in mind these websites will be turned over at a fast rate so I don’t want to be paying the earth for the monthly fees. Just simple shared (although reseller preferred) hosting with cPanel a must!

Any suggestions welcome :thumbsup:

Well feck all progress has been made in obtaining a database dump from my old host. Apparently, the server owner has frozen all account actions, so nobody can get nothing from the server. Needless to say, I’m not the only one in this situation, I’ve paid my fees in full and in advance, and so have friends of mine who are also setup on this guys servers - although they backup their blogs bi-weekly…unlike me!

On the brightside, only my blog was the only website I forgot to backup. My client websites were backed up the day prior to the server suspension. So they’re on this server happy as Larry as there aren’t many changes to interface, nor to nameservers - I sorted everything under cover of darkness!

I’m presently in talks to secure a VPS server for a couple months, until everything quietens down. As I don’t offer hosting anymore, I’m only hosting clients whom I manage their websites, blogs and forums. But if this VPS comes through I may consider entering the field of hosting again to make some extra income during the summer - if I don’t seek employment!

Whoever said blogging wasn’t stressful?

So what am I on about, you may ask? Well HostBidder has been around for quite a while on the amature webmaster scene - aiding many budding webmasters, including myself! Another good think for the majority of readers to this site, is that it’s run by an Irish guy, Fergal Crawley.

Bascially, HostBidder’s main focus would be on supplying free top level domains (TLD’s), as well as Money via Paypal, to its members, through points which you accumilate through posting on the forums and participating in ‘Points Exchanges’ - selling your services in exchange for points - View more here.

I discovered HostBidder back in March 2006, but never registered until the following May. When I joined, I knew something about webdesign and web authoring - Blogging, Forums, and Earning Money Online were completely new to me!

It is through HostBidder, and it’s domain registration service HBDomains which madringo.com has been on since June 2006. Surprisingly, earning points to exchange for your domain is quite easy:

• You can earn upto 40 points per day (First 4 posts count as point earning posts);
• Once you’ve accumilated 900 points, you can exchange your points for a domain of your choice from HBDomains;
• You post your request, and within a day or so, Fergal, will authorise your request and your domain is yours;
• The only requirement, is a simple linkback on your website, and posting your thanks in the testimonials page.
• Once your year registration has run up, simply post a renewal request (in good time).

For a while, HostBidder became somewhat derilict! Simply, people were getting their domains and leaving, only coming back when there’s a problem, or their domain(s) require renewal!

But, as part of the renewal scheme ongoing on HostBidder, you can win $250, for making a blog post about your ‘HostBidder experience’, and what they offer. Or alternatively, you can simply do a humble backlink to HostBidder! View more here.

I’ve taken the post option, as I’d like to see HostBidder continue, and prosper for many years to follow!

(BTW, you can find me HERE on HostBidder!)