Polraudio 122 Report post Posted November 9, 2014 I was wondering if anyone knows of a good cheap web host where i can host my own site for my upcoming game Mine Clicker? I dont have much money to spend at the moment so $12 a year for hosting and a .net domain is the cheapest i can go for right now. What i will be doing with the site is hosting a forums along with a web version of my game so i will need at least 50gb or so for the space and about 100gb for bandwidth. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Marked 197 Report post Posted November 9, 2014 I'd be interested to see if you can find a host that cheap. Costs around $10 annually for the .net domain alone. Could look into this one http://www.hostgator.com/ It's cheap and reliable. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Polraudio 122 Report post Posted November 10, 2014 I found this 1 year deal for $1 a month for the first year on godaddy. not sure if that means ill get mysql, full file access and stuff(not to good with web lol). i dont want some simple website creator because i want to do all the dirty work myself or use some cms/forums. https://www.godaddy.com/offers/online-business.aspx?ci=93372 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Marked 197 Report post Posted November 10, 2014 I can't view that link as it redirects me to the NZ version homepage. But it looks like a limited-time deal. You can trust godaddy, and it looks like they offer 1GB MySQL. I say go with them as they have everything you're going to need. Unlimited bandwidth is cool.... if this site turned over any money, I'd actually switch so I could offer better games hosting. Just a note on that however since you say you plan to have uploads. All cheap servers are shared servers. This means there is standard PHP settings for all servers that cannot be changed (they don't let you because it's shared). One of those settings is the size that can be uploaded per single file upload; therefore if you've got unlimited space but your max upload is 50mb (like ours) then your users can never upload greater than a 50mb file at one time... using php (which any application you install probably will). I haven't looked for ways around it but I suspect I'll find one if I try hard enough. eg an ajax uploader that breaks an upload into parts then it's combined server side. Anyway. 1GB DB space is pretty huge. GDU's DB is about 800mb I think, and we've got a ton of data; 80k posts and 22k users. Definitely nothing to worry about it; I could trim the DB of uneeded data a fair bit. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
