Solid Internet has rasied the bar again! 2500 mb of space and 50 gb of transfer for only $37 a year! Or 5000 mb and 100 gb for only $67 a year! Those are such great deals that I am SOOOO glad I waited a while before buying. :rolleyes:

SM v2 will have enough space for high quality movies, and lots of them.

Ever heard of 1&1 hosting? Dirt cheap, quality hosting. (though I have never had a site, I have heard good reviews)

5000 mb web space, 250 gb bandwidth for $2.99 a month, roughly $36 a year.
That's the cheapest package, the next cheapest is:
50,000 mb web space, 500 gb bandwidth for $4.99 a month, roughly $60 a year.
:D

At a glance, it doesn't appear to have PHP support, but I could very well be wrong.

Here. Scroll down to 'site-building tools', next to 'scripts supported' is php3, php4, and php5. Is that the right stuff?

Wow, that's really good...I might use it if it's a reputable company. My only concern is about PHP Include functions. Do they count as server side includes or as PHP scripts? Because the package I would rather get doesn't support SSI. But still, domain name included! On Solid Internet, I would have to register one somewhere else and have to pay to transfer it. I'm really liking 1&1 so far...

Huh...isn't 1&1 the company that has something like 20 pages of ads in a row in PCWorld or in PCMag? I'm pretty sure it is...

Looks like a good deal after all. Of course, make sure you do backups to your own media now and then, as we should all know what happened to WWN...and with such cheap hosting, you might not want to trust the guys. Otherwise, the offer looks good.

Yeah, it's got a bunch of ads in PCWorld. That's how I found out about it. :P

Well, normally I wouldn't even go to the site to find out more because it would probably have been some random underdog attempt to provide hosting; but I guess it's okay after all. I'd be more interested if I actually needed the hosting, though...

Actually, I've changed my mind after reading reviews. There's too much difference in the extreme ends. The reviewers either love of hate it. So I'm going to stick with Solid Internet, which I know works and is reputable. Also, the company appears to have improved its uptime since the SSC experience.

I wouldn't completely trust 1&1 either, considering they have to bombard PCWorld readers with ads just to get a few customers. I respect your decision to stick with Solid Internet, but you should still be sure to perform complete backups.

I'm sorry, but I'm not familiar with the SSC incident...was it just a lot of downtime, or were there some actual data problems?

SSC had a bit of downtime with SI. I'm not worried about data backups, since I have all the files on my machine and on another one, but the new forum set [wink wink] will definately be backed up at least once a week.

Maybe one could register multiple InvisionFree accounts and put them together in a similar fashion that RAID 0 combines two hard drives. You could get a ton of space and incredible speeds/bandwidth, though I doubt it's legal/ethical or possible. Just a thought, though...