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I have a dedicated server running a bunch of sites, but recently I needed to set up a site for a friend and didn’t want to put it on my server. I find recommending a hosting company is sometimes preferable over using my server. That way, when SPAM starts getting into the email account, or some other unaviodable issue crops up, I am not the one dealing with it! It has been awhile since I compared simple plans on hosting companies, but web hosting choice has a nice list, and boy are prices cheap these days. I remember when $9.99 a month was dirt cheap, now under $5 is common! The budget hosting section of their site lists all the hosts under $5, with one at $2.95.

There is a lot of talk about Amazon EC2 and other cloud providers, like Mosso and Slicehost, but if you just have a small, simple site, these are overkill. Especially EC2, as it is not trivial to get an instance up and running, and get everything in order, like S3 and Elastic Block Store. Amazon is building out their web interface to control the the services, but it is still pretty basic. Mosso looks interesting, and I may have to investigate that more.

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