I’m posting this because I was discussing web hosting with a friend of mine recently. I thought I’d tell you a bit about my web host, Nearly Free Speech. They have a unique pricing model that’s completely pay as you go. You only pay for what you use and you end up saving a bundle. Here’s their current pricing, which is literally pennies until you go over 1 gb in transfer (which for me takes awhile). Most people pay very little, as you can see from this nifty chart. To give you an idea, I paid NFS just 89 cents from Nov til today.
Not only is the price right with NFS, the customer service is great too. Besides public voting for requested features and a good blog that’s used to keep customers up to date, customer service requests are handled promptly and with great skill. And if there is ever any down time (which rarely happens and I’ve never personally noticed), they have some really great incentive to fix things quickly because their income craters on the spot!
To save money on storage and bandwidth charges, I host as much static content (images, files, etc) as I can out of Amazon S3 where it’s cheaper then NFS ($0.15 gb/mo vs $1.02 gb/mo). I pay Amazon a few pennies a month (if that) to host my website related content. It’s super simple too with a CNAME redirect. If you notice, anything hosted at media.bradberkemier.com is actually a redirect to S3.
NFS and Amazon S3 have been the perfect duo for my web hosting needs, and probably would be for you too!
Disclaimer: I’m not being paid by either company to say these things nor do I have a particular interest in either company (though I am an Amazon affiliate). I simply use their services and have been incredibly satisfied with them.
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