Cheap Webhosting pay through Paypal - Please vote - Need your feedback

[Charli]

My Host Gator account is up next month. I've been through the search feature looking up web hosting sites and I cannot find a definitive answer to which web host is favorite among all of you. Maybe everyone's needs are different.

My needs are for portfolio of work (several sites for screenplays, short scripts, short films, e-books), personal blog, affiliate market sites (several affiliate products) and studio company website.

I have over a dozen sites I want to set up next year. I hope this holiday season I can get in a good rate or yearly rate for a host site. Pay like half for the year or near that like I did with Host Gator. I like Gator but when I'm 70+ caller out of 100+ callers for tech support, it can be a bit off putting.

I found an article about cheap web hosting sites you can pay through Paypal, which is what I absolutely need, no credit card charges please, so any site that doesn't offer Paypal is not an option for me. Here is the article:Paypal Hosting

According to the article the four sites, Gator, 1and1, BlueHost, iPage are all 99.9% uptime guarantee, all have good customer service support. I can't see where one web hosting site clearly outdoes the others.

So I'd like to take a vote according to the web hosting sites on this article. I've used GoDaddy and I didn't like it. I hated the control panel.

Any complaints, feedback, please feel free to give me advice. I need to know how "easy to use" the control panel is and how "fast to answer questions" their tech support help is for that site.

Any help really appreciated. Got to do something by the 26th of next month.

Thanks.

 

[Andrew McCarrick]

Novahost.com is $7 a month. All their billing it done through Paypal. I've had a reseller account with them for about 9 months. They just moved to a new, faster server just about 2 weeks ago.

Here's their current up time numbers:

http://novahost.com/support/serverstatus.php

They just went live with the "Dijkstra" server 15 days ago.

 

[Charli]

Andrew - How easy to use is there control panel, and how fast is there tech support to answer your questions?

 

[Andrew McCarrick]

They use Cpanel... should be the same interface as Host Gator, and Nathan (the owner) normally responses personally within 10 hours over their support ticket system. I've never called, so I don't know about phone support.

 

[Charli]

Andrew- sounds like a one-horse operation.

If anyone could tell me how easy to use control panels for 1and1, Blue Host, or iPage are, I would appreciate it. I am looking for a holiday sale like near half off for year as well.