Lothaudus wrote:DatOneGuy wrote:Well, I got google maps API up, and actually a domain is much cheaper than that. $10 USD/yr. I already got hosting for pretty cheap with unlimited space/bandwidth
Be very wary of anyone offering "unlimited" space & bandwidth, especially for $10 USD a year. You'll find sites like that have clauses that limit their use quite extensively. IE: No more than X% of server usage at any time or X% of an amount of bandwidth. Great if you're running a blog with no visitors. Not so great if you're doing something serious. All those sites out there full of glowing reviews for those companies are often put there by the company themselves too.
Just be sure to keep local backups of everything, expect shit to go slowly if it gets a lot of visitors and don't be surprised if (with a bunch of images on site being looked at by a fair few people in H&H every once in a while) that you get taken offline for using too much bandwidth. Still, can only wait and see.
I pay $5/mo actually for hosting, the $10/yr is for domains, which is standard.
I've read over everything before I did, really I've run into no problems with bandwidth or usage and I've had a few 5~GB files up on my site to test the first month before I really bothered buying into it. (And those files were downloaded over 300 times, was quite a bit of traffic). I had to check into this myself instead of going on what other people say because my last host (bluehost, god they're so bad) was terrible and freaked out when I had over 1TB bandwidth even though it said 3TB and they put some kind of cap on that specific file so that I won't go over the limit.
Thanks for the heads up though, not enough people know of how bad some of these hosts really are and they go promoting hosts that end up terribly bad (which is why on the offchance that someone else has a bad experience I won't post the name of my host; Instead if someone wants it they can PM me).

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