I thought i am gonna post this here and on the Unreal and UT forums from Beyond Unreal. And i am not trying to sell anything here, nor do i receive any commision, so its only to point people to a relative cheap hostingplans.
Too often i see people make mods, maps etc. and they have to go through great length to get their stuff uploaded to FilePlanet, Rapidshare and a zillion other vague hosts. But in reality there are very reliable host that offer small sites for an affordable price.
Basically you can have a website with 5 gigabyte of space and 50 gigabyte of bandwidth for only 45 dollars a year, which is 3.75 dollars a month.
The package i am talking about is Starter Hosting Plan from www.LunarPages.com which is also hosting UnrealTexture.com And dont get me wrong, the package cannot be used for a super large site like UnrealTexture, but it certainly is enough to built you a super large site with tons of pages, and more than enough webspace to host your very own files you made.
The Starter Hosting Plan comes with:
Price $ 35.4 a year.
5 Gigabyte of space.
50 gigabyte of bandwidth.
Online Cpanel(Control panel so you can manage your site).
1 MySQL Database (means you can run 1 forum).
1 FTP account(so you can upload your files).
5 POP3 and/or SMTP mailaccounts included(means 5 email accounts).
More info can be found here: http://www.lunarpages.com/starter-hosting
Of course you also need a domain name and you can get that for 19.95 per year at LunarPages, but i think that is pretty expensive and you can do that alot cheaper by www.GoDaddy.com
I always register my domains at GoDaddy because they are cheap and have a top notch service. You can change all the settings for you domainname yourself so you have full control over it.
I always wait till they have a 30% discount on the .com domains and than i claim my domains for 5 years. Normally a .com costs $ 10.69 but almost every month they offer.com's for 30% less. So with a bit of patience, simply claim a name when the price is low.
Of course you can also try find coupons to get your hosting or domain cheaper like on these links:
LunarPages Coupon
GoDaddy Coupon
As said, i am not trying to sell here anything, but i am simply trying to tip people how to get your own site. And i do run sites for almost a decade now, and i couldnt do it anymore without them. Above all, it gives you zillion tons of freedom on the net, because you can upload and offer files, share files in a blink of an eye. And the hosts i present here, have proven to be very reliable hosts, otherwise i would not mention them.
And in case you are younger than 18, you simply could ask your mom or dad to have it registered in your name.
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Too often i see people make mods, maps etc. and they have to go through great length to get their stuff uploaded to FilePlanet, Rapidshare and a zillion other vague hosts. But in reality there are very reliable host that offer small sites for an affordable price.
Basically you can have a website with 5 gigabyte of space and 50 gigabyte of bandwidth for only 45 dollars a year, which is 3.75 dollars a month.
The package i am talking about is Starter Hosting Plan from www.LunarPages.com which is also hosting UnrealTexture.com And dont get me wrong, the package cannot be used for a super large site like UnrealTexture, but it certainly is enough to built you a super large site with tons of pages, and more than enough webspace to host your very own files you made.
The Starter Hosting Plan comes with:
Price $ 35.4 a year.
5 Gigabyte of space.
50 gigabyte of bandwidth.
Online Cpanel(Control panel so you can manage your site).
1 MySQL Database (means you can run 1 forum).
1 FTP account(so you can upload your files).
5 POP3 and/or SMTP mailaccounts included(means 5 email accounts).
More info can be found here: http://www.lunarpages.com/starter-hosting
Of course you also need a domain name and you can get that for 19.95 per year at LunarPages, but i think that is pretty expensive and you can do that alot cheaper by www.GoDaddy.com
I always register my domains at GoDaddy because they are cheap and have a top notch service. You can change all the settings for you domainname yourself so you have full control over it.
I always wait till they have a 30% discount on the .com domains and than i claim my domains for 5 years. Normally a .com costs $ 10.69 but almost every month they offer.com's for 30% less. So with a bit of patience, simply claim a name when the price is low.
Of course you can also try find coupons to get your hosting or domain cheaper like on these links:
LunarPages Coupon
GoDaddy Coupon
As said, i am not trying to sell here anything, but i am simply trying to tip people how to get your own site. And i do run sites for almost a decade now, and i couldnt do it anymore without them. Above all, it gives you zillion tons of freedom on the net, because you can upload and offer files, share files in a blink of an eye. And the hosts i present here, have proven to be very reliable hosts, otherwise i would not mention them.
And in case you are younger than 18, you simply could ask your mom or dad to have it registered in your name.
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.
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