Archive for the Shared Hosts Category

Site5

Great deals on developer-friendly hosting. Unique shared, multi-site, blog and rails hosting options with unique features no other host provides.

26 Positive Reviews 4 Negative Reviews 34 Reviews Overall Rating: 4.074.074.074.074.07

DreamHost

Employee-owned, developer-friendly web hosting. For the tech-savvy, you can’t get any better than DreamHost: Shell access, CSV and SVN repositories, PHP 4 and 5, Ruby on Rails, and more than enough disk space and bandwidth to make use of it all.

41 Positive Reviews 11 Negative Reviews 61 Reviews Overall Rating: 3.823.823.823.823.82

Squarespace

A powerful, unique blog hosting service, SquareSpace produce a sophisticated, professional blog easily. You can even try out their custom blogging platform for free.

8 Positive Reviews 1 Negative Reviews 10 Reviews Overall Rating: 4.014.014.014.014.01

HostMonster

HostMonster’s ready to take care of even the most demanding websites with support for PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby on Rails, custom php.ini settings, custom .htaccess settings, and PostgreSQL databases.

19 Positive Reviews 2 Negative Reviews 23 Reviews Overall Rating: 3.983.983.983.983.98

Web.com

Web.com offers Developer Hosting, plans designed with developers in mind. Use coupon code TWC287 for 20% off through December 31, 2008.

5 Positive Reviews 0 Negative Reviews 6 Reviews Overall Rating: 4.144.144.144.144.14

Lunarpages

Lunarpages is one of the largest web hosting companies around, providing 24/7 support and more than adequate features for both shared hosting and dedicated servers. Their environments are fully developer-friendly with JSP/ASP available, Ruby on Rails, and PostgresSQL databases in addition to PHP and MySQL.

8 Positive Reviews 7 Negative Reviews 17 Reviews Overall Rating: 3.053.053.053.053.05

Jumpline

Jumpline pioneered Virtual Dedicated Servers which provide you with the same environment as owning your own entire server at a fraction of the cost. You have complete control over your hosting environment.

3 Positive Reviews 1 Negative Reviews 4 Reviews Overall Rating: 3.563.563.563.563.56

Host Gator

A no-frills web host with excellent developer support – their servers are configured with PHP, Perl, ImageMagick, GD, Chilisoft ASP, Ruby on Rails and SSH access. If you need a custom module for your website, they’ll install it for you. HostGator’s control panel includes auto-installers for many popular forum, blogging, and ecommerce scripts.

104 Positive Reviews 17 Negative Reviews 141 Reviews Overall Rating: 4.024.024.024.024.02

Easy CGI

Easy CGI differentiates itself with Windows 2003 servers, spam and virus scanning of incoming e-mails, and 24/7 support by both e-mail and phone. Their servers are ready for Windows developers with ASP.NET 1.1, 2.0 and FrontPage extensions.

6 Positive Reviews 5 Negative Reviews 12 Reviews Overall Rating: 3.323.323.323.323.32

Blue Host

A low-cost shared hosting company with a couple features that make it stand out — Ruby on Rails installed for developers, the ability to host 6 domains on each account, and PostgreSQL databases in addition to MySQL.

57 Positive Reviews 13 Negative Reviews 82 Reviews Overall Rating: 44444