100 Megs Web Hosting Review Permanent Link: 100 Megs Web Hosting Review
It can be difficult to select a web host, as many features of hosting services are on the surface the same. Therefore, we like to provide comments on hosts that we have dealt with to aid others in service shopping.
The first host that we’ll comment on is 100Megs Web Hosting, which we use to host washcreek.com. We’ve been using 100Megs for several years, and have been very satisfied.
We appreciate the fact that they have not been stagnate in their hosting plans, as well illustrated by the fact their namesake plan no longer includes 100 MB of space but rather 400 MB. That said, they haven’t been the most aggressive on disk space allocation increases, and if you are looking for huge storage capacities, they will not be the best value.
The bandwidth quotas they offer are competitive, starting with 16 GB for their $5 plan. We appreciate their honesty in not labeling any plan as “unlimited”, as many “unlimited” plans actually contain fine-print limitations and exclusions. The availability of SSH support is valuable to developers needing to upload tarballs and other common tasks.
When working with a photo gallery, we were pleased that their PHP installation had high upload and memory ceilings. One can easily upload via PHP multiple 8 megapixel images, which the PHP installation has no problem generating thumbnails from.
There’s nothing worse than setting up on a new host and getting struck with a “gotcha” of some surprise minor technical limitation. We’re pleased that we haven’t had any of these with 100Megs Web Hosting; they deliver what they say will.