torsdag 20 april 2006

Review: LiveHost

I moved to the U.S.-based hosting service LiveHost in early October 2005 from my previous web hotel, one of the largest in Sweden. Today’s global economy and ease of international communications combined with a stunningly low price made it an easy decision, as LiveHost offers half a GB of disk space and 2 GB of transfer for as little as USD $6 per month. I have to admit that ecstatic comments on a popular review site made me more than a little skeptical, but I had nothing to loose.
My previous host’s cheapest plan is SEK 83 (USD $100) which includes 100 MB of disk space and 5 GB of transfer. That’s more transfer but significantly less space, and it supports only annual or quarterly payments which I considered an inconvenience. In addition, the starter cost was an annoying SEK 369 (USD $40). It also included no free-of-charge statistics options other than a simple counter, while LiveHost by contrast includes several extensive options free of charge and ready for use at any time.
LiveHost has a large range of scripts and packages for blogs and forums ready for automated and hassle-free installation through Fantastico. This made it the ideal choice for this personal website of mine, as well as for a community website for the discussion room #political on the Undernet IRC network.
I have had no need to test LiveHost’s technical support, but they have always been very prompt and helpful when I have approached them with administrative issues and questions. The only potential drawback that I can think of with LiveHost is that I believe it lacks support for ASP.NET. Also, the international nature of the payments excludes the possibility to pay using ordinary invoices in my case. Instead, I rely on Paypal which frankly I neither like nor trust. However, all of the other advantages more than make up for this.
Highly recommended!
Update, 6th of October 2007: This host has changed very significantly for the worse in the past year or two, following a key employee leaving. I can no longer endorse this recommendation.

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