Web Hosting Question?

Hi Daniel,

What type of website are you trying to host?

I have never come across Gandi.net before. However, they are offering hosting for more complex websites such as web applications and sites built using different languages and frameworks.

If you are looking to host a simple website written with HTML, CSS and JS then I recommend using a standard hosting site like webhostingforstudents etc. They will be cheaper and easier to set up.

If you are hosting a web application that uses a programming language to run it's backend then I recommend using a site like Heroku, Digital Ocean or EngineYard. I have used all of these to host Ruby on Rails applications and they are all good options (and well-known).

Hope this helps

I'm trying to host a couple simple websites written in HTML, CSS, and JS. The people I'm building a websites for want two such websites (a band website, and a small business website). Do you think I should have them get a webhostingstudentsaccount then? The student package for $50 a year is cheapest I've seen. Or do you think a website like bluehost, hostgator, namecheap, or godaddy will be better for them?

I'll also follow your advise and stay away from Gandhi, I'd rather not deal with the confusion.

Thanks so much again

For those sorts of websites, I would recommend getting a webhostingforstudents hosting account. Some of the Godaddy and Namecheap hosting are cheap, but really slow..

webhostingforstudents gives a good standard of hosting and speed for it's pricetag.

I use

HostGator

and find that it works just as well as sites like webhostingforstudents.