Trying to find a website host... help??

[lil_Blue_Ford]

I launched a website for my business last fall and worked on building the site over the winter months when I was slow. I had a web host who was recommended to me by a member of another site and it worked out great for awhile, I had unlimited bandwith and space (even though I had no need for that much), and I had a ton of extra features. Plus when I ran into a few issues setting it up, I called the host and he helped me out.

Then he changed his servers around and not everyone got the notice - including me. I tried calling several times, tried emailing, and tried working through the person who referred me to him on another site and got nowhere. The guy wouldn't return my messages and wouldn't answer my calls.

Of course, it had to happen right around the time I got busy, so I didn't have a whole lot of time to try to find a solution, so I just set up my domain to point to a free server that I put up a few basic pages. Because my bandwith is really limited on the free server, I haven't loaded my entire site. Now I'm wondering just how much business has been lost because of the lack of a complete site. I know I need to do something.

So I'm trying to find a new host. I have a local business, so I'm not expecting extremely heavy traffic. I would *like* to have a forum on the site so people can ask questions and get answers to problems as well as sharing information and I'd prefer it be PHPBB3, but my main concern is getting my site back up and not having to shell out big $$$ (I've noticed a lot of hosts will only give you a decent rate if you purchase their services for a year or two at a time and whack you if you don't - because of it being a tough year I just don't have a couple hundred to shell out right now).

So I'm looking for a reasonable, reliable host. With all the members on here, maybe someone runs their own hosting service and would be willing to take on another customer?

Oh, yea, btw, I did set up a coppermine photo gallery on my old site, I would like to use that same thing on my new one. As far as my website goes, I've built all of the pages in Dreamweaver 8 and have them stored on my comp so at least I don't have to fully rebuild the site, just need to FTP upload it all.

 

[Chris.S.]

I haven't hosted in a site myself in awhile but when I did have one we used Lunarpages and they always took good care of us...

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

Bump!

 

[06RangerXLT]

are you talking like godaddy.com?

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

are you talking like godaddy.com?

yea, but I was kinda hoping that one of the members on here would do website hosting, I'd rather pay them to host my site rather than some big company like Godaddy.