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This web hosting review was started by mokou on 2009-12-05 17:13:27:

Hello!

I am looking for web hosting recommendations for a fairly small personal use website. The main site will be for personal use reasons and small in size as mostly a gallery/general use website but I will also be hosting a small but very active and very busy phpbb forum on a subdomain of the site.

I am very frustrated with my current web host and the downtime I have experienced so I am looking for a host with room to grow and very reliable hosting services. I’m not expecting 100% uptime, but 5-6 periods of down time, a couple hours in length (and the one that broke my resolution just occurred yesterday for over 14 hours) is really not cool.

I’m hoping for the ability to create more then 1 mySQL database, great speed and few errors. Along with the down time, php errors are fairly regular on my current host and it’s also really really not cool

The traffic/space statistics I am using as of right now is:
799 MBs (Forum and main site hosting, lots of images. Once I stop being lazy this amount will probably increase substantially as I am hoping to add an image board type service to the website as well as use it as a gallery for my artwork)

Traffic per month averages about:
5 GB in
6 GB Out

I am looking for a webhost with room to grow from these statistics as I do plan on adding more to the site once I have the time/motivation to do so.

I am looking at a budget from around $70-100 for yearly hosting and as of now only one domain name.

Speed and reliability are my main priorities so any information that can be provided would be wonderful.

The hosts I have in mind at the moment are:
MDDHosting and Hostgator from what I have been able to read on this site, but I am open to any and all recommendations based on my usage statistics.

Thank you so much in advance for any help I receive So nice to have a forum like this available when so many of the review sites and what not are… heavily biased

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