Forget 1and1
Jihad update: as you know, 1and1’s free deal is over. Last week I said their $5.00 individual account is a good deal. It’s actually more of a so-so deal, particularly if you want to use it to set up a Movable Type based blog. One commenter has stated that the $5.00 deal does not support the scripts needed to run MT. I don’t know if that’s true or not, but I do know that the $5.00 version does not include a MySQL database, which is a big disadvantage. The $10.00 package does, but unless you’re Andrew Sullivan or the Puppy Blender, $10.00/month is way too much to pay for blog hosting. I recommend ICDSoft, Verve or Hosting Matters instead, in that order.
January 30th, 2004 at 12:57 am
Verve Hosting also has a $5 account option with shell access, runs MT just fine, MySQL, etc. And I’ve not had a problem with them.
January 30th, 2004 at 1:23 am
Neither did I, which is why I listed them. However, unless shell access is important to you, ICDSoft offers a much better deal, with 333 MB of storage space vs. 25. The 25 MB ceiling is not hard to hit, but you really have to go out of your way to use anywhere near 333.
January 30th, 2004 at 12:51 pm
D’OH!
So much for my reading comprehension skills, I didn’t see you had mentioned Verve.
I blame the beer.