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 GoDaddy & Exabytes Hosting - What's the difference

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mafioso
post Oct 2 2012, 09:18 AM

 
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QUOTE(contestchris @ Oct 1 2012, 10:46 PM)
Ok, so I'm looking to start a forum site...and I need a web hosting service.

I had a look at Exabytes and their rates are expensive....almost RM500 for a year for what I'm looking to do. Where else, GoDaddy.com shows it as about US$5/month (and with unlimited bandwith).

Is there any reason Exabytes so expensive? Is GoDaddy reliable? Which (honestly) do you think I should choose?

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it depends.. who are your market audience? if it is local, its best to go with local hostings

they charge very little because it is a shared hosting, means there could be like up to 200 websites in 1 server.
exabytes are also using shared hosting unless you get a VPS or cloud computing..

the reason to stick to local hosting:
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speed -> the data tranfers quickly
security -> there are no free lunch, why would they want to charge you so cheap? obviously they'll keep a copy of whatever you have
imagine you're running a business with banking information/personal info/etc.. they'll have it


for local, even if they do so, at least its easier to settle with them, just go to their office and do your whatever you want to do.
it might be expensive doing it locally, but at least you'll feel safer.. im pretty sure you wont want to fly all the way to godaddy's office just to settle some issues tongue.gif

and dont need to go for CDN (if your target market is local, as it doesnt need any.. unless you plan to expand)..

This post has been edited by mafioso: Oct 2 2012, 09:23 AM
mafioso
post Oct 2 2012, 01:35 PM

 
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QUOTE(BlackWoods @ Oct 2 2012, 10:43 AM)
Yeah, a glance through Exabytes website showed that the Small Business hosting package is only RM291 per year, free life-time domain some more.
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maybe he is looking at VPS brows.gif
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post Oct 2 2012, 11:10 PM

 
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QUOTE(contestchris @ Oct 2 2012, 10:27 PM)
My bad, I was indeed looking at the wrong one.

Ok guys, the thing is, the forum is going to cater to an international audience, most probably North American.

Another thing, I see all these web hosting fellows got storage and bandwith. For a site which I think will start generating 5k visitors per day within 3 months (low estimate), what should I go with? GoDaddy gives unlimited bandwith for all packages.

Please briefly explain the meaning of bandwith and storage in the context of web hosting.

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if you are also targetting North American viewers then you should get a CDN.

storage = storage space
bandwidth = should be monthly transfer. i didnt login to my cpanel for quite some time. (pretty lazy now too) sorry :S

if you are targetting 5k visitors then the one around Rm200 is good enough + CDN (separate item)..
http://exabytes.com.my/web-hosting/small-business-hosting/

for the CDN -> http://exabytes.com.my/services/cdn/
*please do not register for CDN if you're only targetting LOCAL viewers as it's pointless..
but since you are also targetting N.A viewers, i'll suggest you to get that so it speeds up the loading time for their side.

just go with these, its more than enough..

 

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