Pay-As-You-Go Web Hosting
Posted by Jon Lee in Reviews, Web Development, tags: NearlyFreeSpeech, review, web development, web-hosting
I get e-mails and questions all the time from people wondering where they should host their blog. Let’s face it, as much as I recommend mediatemple as an excellent web host, it’s just not for everyone. Not everyone is willing to shell out $15 a month for a web host when they can’t use up all the resources offered and just need is simple no frills web host with reliable up time.
That’s exactly what NearlyFreeSpeech.net is. It was recommended to me by several fellow web developers and I think it is the best solution for small sites and businesses.
Pay As You Go
NearlyFreeSpeech’s business model is different from what you would expect from other web hosts. Instead of paying a monthly fee for a set amount of resources, you pay for only the resources that you use. If you get no visitors in a month, you don’t pay anything at all that month — no base fees or hidden costs.
The pricing is 1 cent for each megabyte of storage and $1 for each gigabyte of bandwidth used per month. For small-medium sized blogs this works out to less than a dollar a month for quality hosting! (Unless you get dugg of course).
Full Featured Hosting
Even with the (potentially) low price, you get a full featured web host which includes PHP, MySQL databases as well as SSH access. Keep in mind though, this is shared hosting. But realistically, at that cost, you can’t be expecting a dedicated server.
A Nice Change
NearlyFreeSpeech is a nice change from all the other web hosts out there that offer tremendous amounts of bandwidth and storage knowing full well most customers won’t even use 1% of it. It’s not just for small sites either, bigger sites like BugMeNot also host with them successfully though I’m not sure what their monthly bill is.
This isn’t a sponsored post or anything, in fact they don’t believe in affiliates or anything of that sort. They rely mainly on word of mouth advertising from satisfied customers and that’s exactly how I found out about it.
I personally wouldn’t use them though because my sites currently take up over 5GB of storage and 100GB of bandwidth a month. That would cost me over $150 a month instead of the $15 a month I pay with mediatemple but for small, personal hosting this is the best solution I have seen yet.
If anyone has personal experience with them, I’d love to hear it!
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