I’ve brought this old post from April up from the depths, as just for Black Friday, Arvixe is offering 50% off for life for any of its shared hosting options, if you use the coupon code “Black Friday”, meaning that you can get hosting from just $2 a month. I’m always a little uncomfortable making posts like this, but it is a pretty good deal that might be of interest to some of my readers. Also, I like money.
In a weird coincidence today, two of my favourite blogs have mentioned that they pay $20 a month for hosting. Both dear old Lum, and Gordon over at We Fly Spitfires. It made me wonder how many other bloggers out there are paying that sort of cash for their sites.
For most of my hosting I use Arvixe , who are vastly cheaper (I pay, I think, $30 for 6 months), and offer unlimited bandwidth. They’ve also displayed the unusual property of actually having someone I can talk to over there who understands what I’m saying, which is always handy.
Full disclosure: That is an affiliate link, meaning that I get money if someone did decide to sign up with them through it. That would be quite lovely, but there are, of course, plenty of other low cost hosts out there.
I pay a big fat zero for mine, but it’s not really a personal site — it’s just a hosted blog. ;) Back when I did pay for my own site, I think it was in the $100 a year region and had some nice perks… they just didn’t happen to be perks I needed, so I stopped paying.
Aye. I spent a while on Blogspot. Tobold’s still there, but in the end I wanted more control over my site.
Also, it helps me not completely forget my sysadmin skills :)
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