Private Server Guide
Good guild website hosting services.
Free guild website hosting
We will just add this section to give you an alternative solution to free website hosting. Ok, you can use this hosting company for any website you wish, but keeping in line with the general theme of Private Server Guide we will talk about guild website hosting.
Sure, there are various free website hosting companies out there catering for guild websites with ready-made solutions for guilds, but most of them will limit the control you have over the site, layout, functionality, advertising, etc.
Yes, you can get a free website hosting solution thats Professional, and easy enough to use by a novice!
Another good point for going for a personal solution apart from getting full control of the website is the fact that you are also in control of the advertising on your site. If you don't want any you don't have to put any in, but if you do, well then you are in full control. Best of all, if the advertising creates revenue, it goes to you or your guild, not some company offering the hosting service! For example, imagine that, the free guild website creating income so that some of your members can play wow for free!!
If you want a hosting solution thats fully customizable and easy to use, check out these guys. For example Private Server Guide is hosted there and the set-up was extremely easy. We have no hesitation in recommending them.
Some specifications we copied from the site:
- 1500 MB of Disk Space
- 100 GB Bandwidth
- Your own domain hosting
- cPanel Control panel
- Website Builder
- Over 500 website templates ready for download (including WoW templates!)
- Free POP3 Email Box and Webmail access
- FTP and Web based File Manager
- PHP, MySQL, Perl, CGI, Ruby.
- No Ads at all !
Check it out Here: 000webhost is where we are hosted and who we recommend.
Cheap hosting for heavy traffic
Ok, we did tell you how to get a free hosting package, which is very good and more than enough for most guild requirements. However, if your guild website is going to be hosting for example, videos, any downloaded files or expect many visitors, you are better off getting a cheap hosting solution that will not limit the amount of data that needs to be transferred.
So if you want to have any of the following at your website, then consider going directly for a cheap and professional hosting solution.
- videos of your endeavours
- file downloads of addons or other files
- expect heavy traffic
You will also need a hosting solution that will be capable of handling heavy traffic if your site turns out to be the next wowhead ;-) which means that even a basic site will need a website hosting solution that doesn not limit the amount of data you can transfer. The prices currently are below US $5 per month so its not really a big cost for peace of mind that your site will not hit the bandwidth cealing.
One of the better service providers that we know of is hosting24. Have a look at their website for more information, but we think you will find that they are one of the cheapest professional webhosting solutions out there.
Enjoy your stay and we hope you find what you are looking for.