Web Hosting Resources

by Peter Y. Chou, Instructor for “HTML & Web Design”
CTIS Division, Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, California

Free Business Web Hosting:
Crosswinds— http://www.crosswinds.net/business/
(Advertise, Business, City Pages, Classifieds, CW-Mail, Directory, Entertainment, Headlines, Help Area, IRC Area, Members, Newsletter, Free Email & Unlimited Web Space)
eCongo.com: Free Commerce— http://www.econgo.com/
(Build and update your ecommerce site online for free. No HTML or programming is necessary. You'll get a catalog, free advertising, versatile payment options, online customer service and reporting on every sale!)
FastFreeWebs.com: The faster free hosting provider— http://www.fastfreewebs.com/
(Completely free, no set-up fee; 10 MB free Web Space; 30 MB free Disk space with more than 5000 visitors/day)
HyperMart: Free Business Hosting— http://www.hypermart.net/
(Apparel, Art & Literature, Business Services, Computer & Technology, Education & Careers, Entertainment, Finance & Investments, Health & Fitness, Hobbies & Crafts, Home & Family, Internet, Music, Society & Culture, Sports & Recreation, Travel, HyperMart University for Business & Computer Skills, 10 MB Free Web Space)
Virtual Avenue: free virtual domain hosting service— http://www.virtualave.net/
(Over 187,000 member sites: Auto, Business, Career & Employment, Computers & Internet, Dating Services, Education & Science, Entertainment, Environmental, Financial, Health & Nutrition, Home & Family, Information Service, Music, Real Estate, Shopping, Society & Culture, Sporting, Travel, Women's Issues; CGI access, Unlimited email forwarding, 24x7 tech support, unlimited traffic, FTP account, 20 MB free Web Space)
Communities with Free Web Space:
AngelFire— http://www.angelfire.com/
(Auction Classifieds, Credit Reports, Email, Graphics & Sound Library, Greeting Cards, Jobs, Mortgage, Personals, Post Your Résumé, Web Design Tools, 5 MB Free Web Space)
Fortune City— http://www.fortunecity.com/
(Art & Humanities, Business & Careers, Computers & Internet; Email, Entertainment, Fun Stuff, Home & Family, International, People & Chat, Recreation & Sports, Sci-Fi & Paranormal, Travel & Transport, 20 MB Free Web Space)
GeoCities— http://geocities.yahoo.com/home/
(41 Neighborhoods: Arts & Literature, Business & Money, Cars & Trucks, Computers, Science & Tech, Education, Entertainment, Family, Government & Politics, Health & Beauty, Home & Food, Lifestyle, Sports & Recreation, Travel; Cool Home Page Add-Ons: Clip Art, Fun Stuff, Interactive, Make Money, Multimedia, 11 MB Free Web Space; no banner ads for $4.95/month fee)
The Globe— http://www.theglobe.com/
(Arts, Auction, Auto, Best Airfares, Business, Cars, Careers, Chat, Email, Entertainment, Forum, Games, Health, Life, Jobs, Metro, Net Telephony, News, Quotes, Romance, Shopping, Sports, Stock Quotes, Technology, Travel, Vacations, Weather, 6 MB Free Web Space)
Homestead— http://www.homestead.com/
(Announcements: births, events, invitations, news; Businesses: animal & pets, computer services, creative services; Clubs & Organizations: alumni, community groups, fan clubs; Employment: advice, job listings, résumés; Friends & Families: genealogy, keeping in touch, pets; Homestead Central: fun stuff, where the heart is; Individuals: alphabetical, geographical; Just for Fun: chat, games & fantasy, silly stuff; Marketplace: auctions, for sale, wanted; Personal Interests: animals & nature, arts & crafts, automotive, computers; School & Universities: elementary, middle & high Schools, universities; Archive; Hall of Fame; Homestead Drag-and-Drop Editor to create web pages; 12 MB Free Web Space)
Talk City— http://www.talkcity.com/
(Age: 20's to Seniors, Arts & Books, Auto, Bulletin Boards, Business & Finance, Chat, Cities & Travel, Collectibles, College, Computing, Current Events, Discussion Boards, Education, Email, Entertainment, Ethnic & Lifestyles, Events Calendar, Free Homepages, Health & Wellness, Home & Family, Kids, Local, Movies-TV-Radio, Music, News & Sports, People, Personals, Romance & Social, Shopping, Spirituality, Teen, Well-Being, Women, Your Start Page)
Tripod— http://www.tripod.com/
(Auction, Cars & Trucks, Computers, Entertainment, Free Email, Fun & Games, Health/Fitness, Home/Family, Jobs/Career, Money/Business, Scores/News/Stocks, Shopping, Society/Culture, Sports, Teens, Travel, Women, 11 MB Free Web Space, Premium membership: 22 MB Web Space for $3/month)
Xoom— http://xoom.com/home/
(Auctions, Business, Chat Rooms, Classic Movies, Clip Art, Communities, Downloads, E-Cards, Email, E-Faxes, E-Tour, E-zines, Entertainment, Games Online, Health, Investor Place, Religion, Resources, Software Downloads, Shopping Guide, Sports, Travel, Women's Circle, Web Connections, 100 MB Free Web Space)
Newspaper Articles on Web Hosting:
Go2Net purchase aimed at boosting business offerings (by Polly Lane, Seattle Times, 4-29-99)
http://www.seattletimes.com/news/business/html98/gnet_19990429.html
(Go2Net, a Seattle-based network of community-driven Web sites, has acquired Virtual Avenue, a leading provider of free Web-hosting services for medium and small businesses, for about $23 million in stock.)
Web Hosts With the Most Tech firms help e-businesses get started (by Carol Emert, San Francisco Chronicle, 12-2-98)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/1998/12/02/BU36344.DTL&type=printable
(Thousands of entrepreneurs are turning to a portal, an internet service provider or other Web hosting service to handle the technological side of their e-businesses.)
Mini-Warehouses To Guard Web Sites (by Stan Bunger & Jan Boyd, San Francisco Chronicle, 11-9-98)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/1998/11/09/BU97438.DTL&type=printable
(Hundreds of companies pay Exodus Communications, a Web hosting firm in Santa Clara, to store their Web servers inside rows and rows of individual locked cages that fill a vast warehouse-sized room.)
Internet Service Shopping Among the scores of ISPs, here are some standouts (by Jon Swartz, SF Chronicle, 10-27-98)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/1998/10/27/BU76039.DTL&type=printable
(Better bets among the scores of Internet service providers in Northern California)
Home-grown Internet providers (by Peter Lewis, Seattle Times, 3-1-98)
http://www.seattletimes.com/news/technology/html98/isps_030198.html
(Boardwatch magazine, which first started tracking Internet service providers two years ago, found less than 1500 nationally as of February 1996. The total in March 1998 has more than tripled, to 4600)
Magazine & Online Articles on Web Hosting:
20 Questions to Ask a Web Hosting Company (by Peter Kent, Poor Richard's Web Site)
http://www.poorrichar.com/freeinfo/20q.htm
(Sound advice and pointers in choosing a web hosting company for your web site.)
Choosing Your Web-Hosting Service (by Peter Kent, CMPnet Small Biz)
http://www.seattletimes.com/news/technology/html98/isps_030198.html
(8 steps on finding a webhosting company, account types, web capacity & cost, email, telnet & FTP, e-commerce, programs & utilities, administration trivia)
Get Top $ for Your Web Hosting Business (by Christopher M. Knight, ISP-Planet, 7-19-99)
http://www.isp-planet.com/business/sell_hosting-a.html
(ISPs are getting between $175 to $500 per subscriber, but how much should you ask?)
How to Price Your ISP When It's Time to Sell (by Christopher M. Knight, ISP-Planet, 7-12-99)
http://www.isp-planet.com/business/knight_valuation.html
(How much should you ask and how much can you get?)
High-End Hosting (by Michelle V. Rafter, Internet World, 7-15-99)
http://www.internetworld.com/print/1999/07/15/website/19990715-hosting.html
(Web hosting is a business that's expected to grow from $876 million in revenues in 1998 to $14.6 billion in 2003.)
Bigstep.com Makes Businesses 'E' for Free (by Jackie Cohen, Industry Standard, 7-7-99)
http://thestandard.net/articles/display/0,1449,5422,00.html
(A startup is Web-enabling businesses by giving them sophisticated sites that don't cost a cent and don't flash a single ad.)
Web Hosting Support (Web Hosting Industry News, 2-4-99)
http://www.hostnews.com/article10.html
(Through Ineedsupport.com, its new support site, Webhosting.com customers can use electronic forms to submit questions to technical support staff.)
Web Outsourcing: A Question of Trust (Web Hosting Industry News, 1-19-99)
http://www.hostnews.com/article5.html
(57% of Fortune 1000 firms plan to run their own Web servers— a 24% increase from 1996.)
Why Web Hosting Companies Go Out Of Business (Web Hosting Industry News, 1-12-99)
http://www.hostnews.com/article3.html
(Mortality rate for hosting shops is much higher than for access-centered ISPs.)
Picking The Right Web Server (by Jim Carr, MicroTimes, 9-9-98)
http://www.microtimes.com/183/webserver.html
(Strategic decision of where to house the web site and the platform)
A Host To the ISPs (by Michelle V. Rafter, Internet World, 2-16-98)
http://www.internetworld.com/print/1998/02/16/infrastructure/19980216-host.html
(AboveNet Communications, a colocation business that provides Internet access for Web hosting firms and ISPs, created one of the biggest Internet pipelines around: a 1.5-Gbps reserved-bandwidth network that sits just one hop from the Internet.)
Find the Host with the Most (by Elizabeth Crowe, Computer Currents, June 3, 1997)
http://www.currents.net/magazine/national/1511/nets1511.html
(Tips on choosing the best host for your Web site: tech support, bandwidth, speed, reliability, interface, virtual hosting, design services, location, flexibility, storage capacity, security, hit statistics, price.)
Web Hosts With the Most (by Tim Scannell, Computer Currents, June 1997)
http://www.currents.net/magazine/boston/206/snrp206.html
(50 ISPs in the Boston area with focus on DreamCom, Shore.net, and Xensei)
America's cheapest Internet developers (by Barry Klein, Net Marketing, 10-1-96)
http://netb2b.com/cgi-bin/search_articles.pl?search=web+hosting&stype=network&x=15&y=11
(Why spend $100,000 when $600 will put your company on the Web?)
Bay Area Web Hosting:
Solution Islands (11730 Par Ave, Suite 100, Los Altos, CA 94024; 12-2-96)— http://www.sislands.com/isp/webhosting.htm
(25 MB $19.95 month; 50 MB $34.95 month; 100 MB $59.95 month)
City Online Communications (6401 Bay St., Suite 8110, Emeryville, CA 94608; 11-24-95)— http://www.citycom.com/
(Web hosting dialup account, 50 MB, 2 emails, forms, support for $39.95 month)
Cronos (555 Fulton St. #102, San Franciso, CA 94102; 2-25-97)— http://www.cronos.net/
(Business 56K, 50 MB, 5 Email, $25 setup, $35 month)
IX America (43104 Christy St., Fremont, CA 94538; 6-1-98)— http://www.ixamerica.com/IXAmerica.htm
(Free 1-year hosting: $99 for personal homepage design; $499 for professional site design)
Walltech (Wallace Technical Communications, P.O. Box 4179, Mountain View, CA 94040; 4-4-95)— http://www.walltech.com/webplansummary.shtml
($30 Setup fee + Monthly fee: Standard 30 MB $20; Professional 50 MB $35; Secure 50 MB $60)
AAA Web Hosting Network (P.O. Box 1530, Sparks, NV 89432; 9-8-98)— http://www.aaahosting.net/
(300 megs of webspace & 6 gigs of traffic for personal & business. Web hosting start at only $6.95 for a subdomain and $7.95 for a Domain Account)
National Web Hosting:
AOL (America Online)— http://www.aol.com/
(Apparel, Auctions, Autos, Babies & Toys, Books & Music, Business, Careers & Work, Computing, Email, Entertainment, Finance, Front Page, Gifts & Collectibles, Health, Home & Garden, Kids, Local, Maps, News, Newsgroups, Research, Shopping, Sports, Travel, Weather, Web Pages, White Pages, Yellow Pages)
AT&T WorldNet— http://www.att.net/
(Access Numbers, Arts, Auto, Business, Careers, Chat, Computing, Education, Email, Entertainment, Finance, Games, Health, How To, Investing, Keeping Kids Safe, Kids, Music, My Weather, News, Newsgroups, Personal Web Pages, Real Estate, Shop, Software, Sports, Telephony, Travel, Wireless Paging, Women)
CompuServe— http://www.compuserve.com/
(Air Fare Sales, Books, Business, Classifieds, Current News, Destination Guide, Digital City, Famous People, Forums, Interactive Radio, Magazines, Maps, MIDI Songs, Music Boulevard, Newspapers, People in the News, Personals, Regional News, Reservations, Roger Ebert's Movie Reviews, Stock Market News, Telephone Access Numbers, Ticker Look-up, Traveler's Weather, TV Listings, White Pages, Yellow Pages)
EarthLink Home Page— http://www.earthlink.net/
(Arts/Entertainment, Business, Careers/Education, Chat, Computing/Science, Creating Web Pages, Culture/Beliefs, Family, Free Email, Health, Hobbies/Games, Internet Rooms, Living, Local, News/Issues, Newsletter, Online Gaming, Sports, The Mall, Travel, A-Z Site List, Search)
GTE Internet— http://www.gte.net/
(Business, Chat, Child Safety, Cool Sites, Education, Entertainment, Headlines, Health, Horoscope, Kids Stuff, Let's Shop, Local Weather, My Snap!, News & Weather, Oddities, Odds & Ends, Online Gaming, Products & Services, Science & Tech, Sports, Stock Portfolio, SurfBeat Newsletter, Travel, What's New)
MindSpring— http://www.mindspring.net/
(Arts, Business, Business Services, City Pages, Classifieds, Computing, Earth, Education, Entertainment, Family, Finance, Games, Health, Lifestyles, Link of the Day, Music, News, Reference Desk, Shopping, Sports, Travel, User Home Pages, Web Site Design, Web Site Hosting, Yellow Pages)
Netcom Homeport— http://www.netcom.com/homeport/index.html
(Arts & Entertainment, Auctions, Business, Career, Classifieds, Computing, Doonesbury, Education, Explore, Financial, Free Email, Government, Health, Hobbies, Kids, Living, Local, News, People Profiles, Science, Services, Shopping, Software, Sports, Support, SurfWatch, Top US News, Travel, Unusual News, Weather, World News, Your Finances, Your News, Your Web Page)
SpryNet— http://www.sprynet.com/
(Business & Finance, Classified Ads, Daily Horoscopes, Favorite Links, Financial Portfolio, Happenings, Local Movie Times, Local TV Times, Members' Corner, Members' Web Pages, News, Personal Ads, Personalize this page, Search & Resources, Sports Scores, Technology, Travel Center, Weather Channel)
Super Search (Easynett, New York ISP)— http://www.easynett.com/search/
(Search Engines, Resource Indices, Resource Directories, Company Directories & Indices, Super Lists, Yellow Pages & Phone Directories, Shareware & Freeware, All-in-One Searches, Reference Resources, Randomizers, Newsgroups, Other Internet Resources)
Verio Web Hosting— http://home.verio.com/services/webhosting.cfm
($24.95/month for 40 MB disk space, 3000 MB/mo data transfer, FTP, CGI, 10 POP accounts)
WebHosting.com— http://www.webhosting.com/pages/virtual/comchart.htm
($25/month for 40 MB disk space, $50/mo for 100 MB, $100/mo for 250 MB; $50 setup fee)
Web Stores with E-Commerce:
Bigstep.com— http://www.bigstep.com/
(Build your business online: fast, easy, and free; no email; 12 MB for pictures)
Yahoo! Store: Create your own secure online store— http://www.store.yahoo.com/
(Monthly fee: 1-50 items $100; 51-1000 items $300; plus $100 for each additional 1000 items; no per-transaction fee, no startup cost, and no minimum time commitment.)
iCat Web Store— http://www.icat.com/
(First 30 days free; Monthly fee: 1-10 items $9.95; 50 items $49.95; 100 items $99.95; 1000 items $249.95; no set-up or transaction fees; pay up-front for an entire year and get two months free.)
Web Hosting Directories:
Yahoo Directory of Web Hosting— http://dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Companies/Internet_Services/Web_Services/Website_Hosting/
(1526 listings, 626 by region, 12 directories, 109 hosting sites with free web pages)
Free Hosting Providers List— http://members.xoom.com/_XOOM/newsservers/webspace1.htm
(104 Free Web Hosting Sites arranged alphabetically in Tables: Disk Space, CGI, Ads, Address, Language, Upload)
Budgetweb.com— http://www.budgetweb.com/budgetweb/index.html
(A budget guide to finding web space services for your small business.)
Top Hosts: Guide & Directory of Web Hosts— http://www.tophosts.com/top15/list.shtml
(Web Host Showroom, Web Host Database, Top 25 Hosts, Hosting News, ISP Signup)
Ultimate Web Host List— http://webhostlist.InternetList.com/
(Find a Web Host, Specialty Hosting, Top 25 Hosts, Elite Web Hosts, FrontPage Hosting)

© Peter Y. Chou, WisdomPortal.com
P.O. Box 390707, Mountain View, CA 94039
email address: peter@wisdomportal.com (updated, 9-3-99)