January 4, 2010
Dreamhost is another great green web hosting provider based in Brea, CA. Started in 1997, according to Dreamhost, they started with a single Pentium 100 server. Today company operates over one thousand servers hosting over 800,000 websites for the clients around the world.
Today Dreamhost offers shared hosting, virtual private servers, along with dedicated server solutions. Unlike any other web host in the industry Dreamhost offers a 97 days money back guaranty.
| Dreamhost Shared Hosting Plan |
| Price: $8.95/month |
| Disc Storage: Unlimited |
| Monthly Bandwidth: Unlimited |
| Domains Allowed: Unlimited |
| Full Shell / SSH / FTP / SFTP Users: Unlimited |
| E-Mail Accounts (POP/IMAP/Webmail): Unlimied |
| MySQL Databases: Unlimited |
| Operating System: Linux |
| Dream Host Dedicated Hosting Plan |
| Price*: 49.95/month with one year pre-payment. |
| Processor: AMD Opteron 2.6GHz Dual Core |
| Memory: 4GB |
| Hard Drive: 250GB SATA |
| Bandwidth: 1TB / month |
| Operating System: Linux |
*at the expiration of the first year anniversary the price for Dedicated Hosting increases to $89.95/month.
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Based in San Francisco,CA, Laughing Squid was founded in 1998. Laughing Squid is an independent web hosting provider offering services to clients around the world. The company has additional offices in New York and Portland. In addition to standard web hosting plans, in April of 2009 Laughing Squid has launched cloud hosting services. Cloud hosting allows for data being stored on cluster servers instead of traditional stand along servers many web hosting providers still employ. The cloud hosting solutions provide better reliability while at the same time reducing the down times and improves the performance of the websites that tend to have unpredictable spikes in traffic.
Laughing Squid Cloud Hosting Plans
| Mega Squid | Ultra Squid | Super Squid |
| Price: $8/month | Price: $12/month | Price: $16/month |
| 2 GB of disk space | 3 GB of disk space | 4 GB of disk space |
| 75 GB of monthly bandwidth | 150 GB of monthly bandwidth | 200 GB of monthly bandwidth |
| 1000 compute cycles* per month | 1500 compute cycles per month | 2000 compute cycles per month |
| 3 MySQL databases | 5 MySQL databases | 5 MySQL databases |
Laughing Squid Hosting Plans
| Tiny Squid | Basic Squid | Giant Squid |
| Price: $8/month | Price: $11/Month | Price: $14/month |
| 300 MB of disk space | 600 MB of disk space | 1 GB of disk space |
| 20 GB of monthly bandwidth | 40 GB of monthly bandwidth | 150 MB of email storage |
| 1 MySQL database | 2 MySQL databases | 3 MySQL databases |
| 5 email accounts | 20 email accounts | 30 email accounts |
If you are current or former Laughing Squid client, please consider leaving your review with us using the comment form below. Remember to select appropriate values in the widget just above the comment form (1=worst, 10=best).
December 29, 2009
As was promised in the previous post for earlier today, I present to you another list of top ten web hosting providers. As you can see the list below is quiet different. I strongly suggest that neither lists should be seen as a deciding factor before you purchase your web hosting. You should take your time to do your own research. Unlike any other purchase, when buying web hosting services, you are going to be “married” to your web host for quiet some time.
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