Okay, this has nothing to do with Buenos Aires……
I’m occasionally asked about good, cheap, affordable, low-cost hosting for Web sites. There are a lot of providers out there on the market. Before establishing this site, I did a lot of research on various hosting companies and ultimately selected site5. I’ve been with site5 for over two years and have never had a problem. So, site5 is the web hosting company that I recommend.
The backend controls and tools to manage your site5 account are very nicely designed and easy to use. The company has an active forum for technical support and other issues. Many people know that I’m a librarian but may not realize as a librarian I managed Internet technologies for 15 years and was a Unix sysadmin, so I have very high standards for a Web host. I have no plans to change from site5 at anytime.
Site5 always runs a lot of special pricing on new plans. I was lucky enough to get a plan a few years back that offered unlimited bandwidth. Yeah!! That plan is no longer available but they have a great new plan that is only $5 a month for 110 GB storage, 5 TB bandwidth, and that allows you to host up to 110 domains.
This is NOT a sponsored post. I’m just a happy customer. Okay, there are affiliate codes in those links to site5, so I get some coin if you sign-up but I really am very pleased with the service of site5.
…..we can return to talking about Buenos Aires now.
November 26th, 2007 at 3:25 pm
Hi, well you say your this recommendation has nothing to do with Buenos Aires, but in your research did you come across any hosting services in the capital that you’d recommend. I am looking for a local client, and if his audience is mostly in Argentina, I figure it would be better performance-wise, etc, to host here.
I came across this one on Google (http://www.hostingbaires.com.ar/host_personal.htm), and they sound good, but I’d rather go off a recommendation.
Thanks,
Mike
November 26th, 2007 at 4:52 pm
Hi Mike, I’m not very familiar with the hosting services here in Argentina though I do believe that quite a few of the plans offered here are actually just resellers and I’m not sure where their servers are located; I wouldn’t be surprised if some are in the U.S. (I do know that some local companies use North American hosts for their sites.) But I’m sure there are some with hosts with data centers here.
November 26th, 2007 at 9:25 pm
yeah, it seems here that a lot of web design and hosting is merged. Searching Google, I find a lot of independent designers who also offer hosting. Nice blog by the way. I like your perspective.