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Cheap yet reliable web host

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I found a few great web hosts, which are really cheap yet reliable for Professional Website Hosting. So thought to put a review about them here.

Today will discuss – Bluelemonhost

 

Its one of the cheapest host i had seen on web, that too with cPanel and 99.9% uptime! 

I had used it personally & its really good.

 

Good things about it:
 

  • Too cheap …basic plan costs $11/yr only.
     
  • cPanel based panel….thus really cool to manage things.
     
  • Great link speeds….as per my tests – uplink – 3.5MBps and downlink – 2.8MBps (though appears to be little slow…but believe me its far better then expensive Dreamhost!)
     
  • Good support….always responses with “done/solved/ok” :)
     
  • Daily free backups with free restoration (nice!)
     
  • No irritating limits on number of sub domains, sql databases & users, ftp users and even mailing lists. 

 

 

Bad things about it:

 

  • No ssh shell access (but i do accept its useless to give that in plan like $11 an year due to security reasons).
     
  • No wget allowed (even via cron jobs) though good way out is just using ftp commands in shell but again that’s not for home users. 
     
  • Irritating limit- in $11 plan you can host only 1 addon domain & parked domain.
     
  • No great cPanels addons like website builder or templates. (though you won’t need those ever!)

 

 

I recommend it using just for personal blogs and small professional sites because of its cost, features it just provides really solid hosting for personal blogs but because of limitations i won’t recommend it for an advanced user.

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Cheers!

10 Responses to “Cheap yet reliable web host”

  1. Their other high end plan do have more add-ons and parked domains with advanced features, I guess business users can go for their high-end plans.

    I have recently signed up with them and happy till now :)

  2. Hi Remith, i agree most of problems are solved in other high end plans but shell access and wget isn’t available for ANY shared hosting plan….but yes…its SO cheap…i won’t complain. :)

  3. Bro what about CPU Limit and Sub domains ??

  4. Hi Abhi

    CPU Limit – unfortunately till now there is no standard parameter to measure cpu usage …and so my idea is – think in practical terms – “are you going to use really high cpu usage?”

    like say when you are paying $5-$6/month you can expect really high usage, but referring to current host costing you $11/yr you must think if you have really heavy db with too many users accessing it, it might be an problem.

    In my experience i hosted my blog which is wp script with 25MB size database and having 900+ visits everyday, all works fine.

    Incase you plan to use any really complex script having db access for each task, best is to contact host to have a look on it.

    Subdomains:

    unlimited.

    hope that will help :)

  5. Jus try readin te other aspects my friend n u”ll know…

  6. Nice points about cheap web hosting. Thanks for information sharing

  7. @Nikhil other aspects like?

    @Bhavish what was nice in this? :P

  8. Who’s your domain registrar? Is there any good, yet cheap, registrar you want to suggest to me?

  9. hmmm….actually practically you will never find any cheap registrar becoz registrar “just” earn $1-2 on a common domain extension like .com/net/org

    So you won’t see a significant difference in domain cost but you will find cheapest possible if you purchase from a company which is more in registration side like – name.com, aapkadomain.com , eNom.com rather then a company whose primary business is web hosting like – hostgator.com, dreamhost.com, bluelemonhost.com

    And i DO NOT recommend the terrible control panel based GoDaddy to anyone for anything! :)

    hope that will help!

  10. Great !!! Iam gonna give it a try !!!

    Ratish

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