Before I post my offer, please note that the $97 off coupon code are NO LONGER available. Dreamhost does not accept them anymore, $50 is the maximum discount you can get, and this offer gives you both maximum discount and domain, so you really won’t find a better deal.

So, this is a new deal I am offering to anyone who wants to sign up to Dreamhost.com. Please note that in order to receive the discount you need to pay with credit card and not paypal (due to the frauds filters).

$50 off ANY hosting plan PLUS free domain registration for life.
Your domain will be forever free as long as you host with dreamhost.com.

Payment Period | Cost | Discount - You Pay
Monthly………… $60.90……..$50.00……..$10.90 + FREE domain
Yearly…………..$119.40 …..$50.00 ……..$69.40 + FREE domain
Two years……….$214.80……$50.00…….. $164.80 + FREE domain
Three years……..$286.20……$50.00 ……..$236.20 + FREE domain
Five years……….$417.00……$50.00 ……..$367.00 + FREE domain
Ten years……….$714.00…….$50.00 ……..$664.00 + FREE domain

Coupon code: LW2008

You will only be eligible to get the discount if you use this coupon code.

Hosting features:

• 500 GB Disk Storage
• 5 TB Monthly Bandwidth
• 97-Day Money-Back Guarantee
• Plus many more features!
• Sign up now for $5.75/mo*
• Unlimited Databases
• Unlimited Domains
• Free Domain + free domain whois privacy

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* Assuming you pay annually using the LW2008 code.

Sign Up NOW!

I often get emails asking what web hosts am I using for hosting all my sites and the answer is — I use many. I try to host each few sites on a separate IP, first of all, if the host goes down only a few websites will suffer from downtime, and secondly — link building within my own network brings more benefits. All this pays out spending a few dollars a month extra on each host.

Recently I got my hosting account at Lunar Pages. This host is often compared to Dream Host by means of offering too much bandwidth for too little price… You can also avail of our special deal, and get $50 OFF if you input the coupon code LORELEI. (That turns out to be less than $4 a month + free domain.. not a bad deal?)

The difference between these 2 hosts, Lunar Pages seem to have a much more powerful servers and obviously better uptime. I also signed up with their referral program that pays out much better than Dreamhost. Both DreamHost and LunarPages give you a FREE domain upon sign up, which you can keep for life as long as you host with them.

However, both hosts still do not perform as good as HostGator, on which I host my forum. Even though they offer less disk space and bandwidth for a higher price, you get a better quality server, faster, always online and Awstats installed.

Another host we would recommend is SurfTown. For $7.95 a month you get more space than you can ever use and a FREE domain. You can host only 1 domain on the basic plan, but then again, if you have a quality site with plenty of visitors this is a great solution.

For more info, we always use websites that compare many web hosts and their features, this is always a very useful tool to help you make up your mind and decide which host you want to go with.

While I often recommend various paid hosts, let’s not forget that some of us can’t afford to pay for hosting or just want to set up one more site, on another hosting IP. It’s not easy to find a good host but there are some good ones out there, one of them is a
provided by k2free.com. You can upload php scripts and get FTP acess, almost like a paid premium hosting, only you get it all for free. Why to say no to a nice freebie account?

The best advantage of cyber world over reality is that when it comes to managed hosting, errors can be easily fixed, brought back in time or recovered. Today I discovered that there is even such a thing as disaster recovery planning, which is pretty much essential for any business organizations that follows the device of “better save than sorry”. It helps you to build a plan before you face any business altering decisions or costs. In fact, I think today any online business, or company that runs a website to support its offline development, first and foremost invests in application integration, before even developing an online promotion strategy.

I noticed that this is a mistake newbies often new, or businessmen who have little experience with hosting or online applications, who rely of banner ads or just the first solution they would come across.  Everything begins with your managed hosting, and your cyber platform’s infrastructure, as the future of your e-business fully depends on how secure and well organized your online website is. I also suggest never to be ultra stingy when it comes to these issues, because every saves penny can turn against you when things go wrong. Just make sure you make a wise decision!

We, webmasters, ceaselessly register various domain names but eventually, gathering a few dozens of domains comes down a big annual fee, for keeping them. This is why it’s always better to look for a cheaper domain registration service online, which will give us maximum features for minimum price. paylessdomains.com.au is yet another good solution, because domain registration costs only 10.49 USD/year. While you can find a solution for domain registration that will be a few cents cheaper, bear in mind that this register is ICANN accredited and provides with each registration a nice bunch of features including 24/7 Customer Support, FREE Email hosting, FREE URL forwarding, free management tools, free domain parking and more. The registration itself includes no additional fees. The website itself has a very nice web 2.0 and user-friendly interface, extremely easy to navigate and not showered with adverts and offers. They also offer an affordable hosting solution, ideal for beginning or medium size websites .
It’s a clean and professional site that offers great service for fantastic price.

About 4 years ago, when I just started with developing my own html website, I was looking for a free and good builder that will help me to put a site online without any knowledge of coding. I remember back then I tried using website builder by Blue Voda. It had a very nice promotional video, which says Blue Voda builder has all the features of DreamWeaver, and many more interesting add-ons, only it costs $0.

A few days ago I came across the Blue Voda builder again and it brought nice memories of the times I couldn’t even make a hyper link. So, if you are struggling with putting your site online, you might want to give this software a try. The BlueVoda site builder is a product offered freely from VodaHost web hosting. Once you have the site ready in their builder, all you have left is to drag & drop your files from your BlueVode builder into your VodaHost account.

Why is it free? The site builder is offered free because you are supposed to sign up with VodaHost, and they will gain a client. There is no hidden tricks, as the Dell-powered  hosting they offer has a lot of great features, you get tons of bandwidth, disk space and a free domain. Idea solution for “HTML noobies”.

This is a limited time deal from Dreamhost.com, for toptut.com readers only (this is my exclusive deal in partnership with dreamhost) where you can get 2 free domains with your registration + $20 discount on your annual payment.

Promo code: 2FREEDOMAINS20 

This promo code adds 2 extra FREE lifetime domain registrations to any plan signed up for with it! If you pay annually in advance, you also get $20 discount (does not apply on bi-annual payments and further). This very blog is hosted with dreamhost and moreover — toptut.com was a domain I once got free with my sign up, so as you can guess, I don’t recommend you anything that I’d not try on myself first.

So, if you sign up anuually, and pay $119.40, minus $20 =  $99.40 PLUS 2 domains absolutely free for the lifetime of your hosting.  This is a great way to start your own blogs business or website that won’t ever bother you with the disk space or bandwidth, because you get:

• 500 GB Disk Storage
• 5 TB Monthly Bandwidth

It’s a lot, trust me. Even if you have heavy downloads. Get the hosting plan HERE.

The deal is valid only until March 22nd, 2008. 

It seems to me hosting companies competition is the toughest because I find more and more sites that offer reviews, yet they all differ. I think of all the sites that provide reviews and try to promote their affiliate links web hosting choice is the most decent one, because thy actually give you a lot of useful information and facility to search the site for the hosting that suits you, list all the features it offers and give honest overview of the host.