A good web-host is essential to anybody who is serious about their website. The checklist when looking for a hosting company is storage, bandwidth, reliability, technologies and, of course, price. Finding the right host for your website can save you a lot of hassle, headache and money.
What is Web Hosting?
There’s basically three levels of website hosting:
- Co-location
You provide the server, they provide the location and the bandwidth - Dedicated
They provide the server, location and bandwidth. Your site lives on your machine(s). - Shared
Your website shares server(s), location and bandwidth with a bunch of other websites.
The cheaper and more common method of hosting is in a shared environment. A shared hosting plan can usually provide more than enough resources for most websites. In fact, as of this writing, Photoshop Lab is using a shared hosting plan.
Shared Environments
A downfall of shared hosting has always been reliability. With so many different websites sharing the same resources, the likely-hood of something bad happening always increased. That’s where grid-style hosting comes in. Grid hosting is a new approach to a shared hosting environment. Instead of a few websites sharing one server, in the more classic shared environment, grid hosting is a bunch of websites all sharing a bunch of servers. With this architecture, any heavy loads or problems can be spread across a huge network of resources, lessening the more common negative effects.
Enter Misk.com Domain Essentials
Misk.com Domain Essentials web hosting plan is a grid-style architecture that is very, well, cheap. At $25 per year, it is a fraction of the cost of some of the other more popular grid hosting plans. Around since 1998, Misk.com lives on a popular Internap hosting facility.
A Unique Approach
Misk.com provides the basics at a basic price. Where most other hosting companies try to one-up each other in storage, bandwidth or extra features, all of which 99.5% of their users won’t use, Misk.com Domain Essentials just gives you the bare minimum. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
They don’t provide dynamic technologies like PHP, ColdFusion or ASP. They don’t provide massive database storage, or 10,000 email accounts. They provide reliable, static, simple hosting at a very simple price of $25 per year or $2.09 a month. Whoah!
A Perfect Fit?
As someone who builds websites for a living, I get a lot of requests for work from friends or family or friends of a friend of someone who knows a cousin in the family that just wants a “simple” website to show photos of their wedding/birthday/baptism/dog/real estate or maybe just a little information about their construction company. These are the type of people who would fit into the Domain Essentials hosting plan perfectly.
They don’t need a dynamic website with rotating banner ads. They don’t need a massive user registration database. They don’t need 10,000 gigabytes of bandwidth a month. And they definitely don’t need a $45 bill for hosting that they’re only using 10% of. They don’t need a $25 per month plan from Yahoo!, they need a $25 a year plan from Misk.com.
For anybody who is looking for cheap, basic hosting without all of the overhead and excess, Misk.com’s Domain Essentials is a perfect package.
