ISO Suggestions on Reasonably Priced Web Hosting Companies

[Steven Oppenheimer <Steven -at- OppenheimerCommunications -dot- com>]

Okay, I know this has been asked before from time to time, but I did not 
save previous replies...

Right now I'm paying $25/month to have my domain hosted.  I see a lot of 
services which provide much cheaper hosting -- GoDaddy.com offers hosting 
as cheap as around $6/month.  But I want to be sure the company is 
reputable and reliable.  (I Googled GoDaddy.com, and there were complaints 
that GoDaddy hosts a lot of spammers.  That doesn't necessarily mean I 
would not get good service from them, but I prefer to deal with a company 
this is wholly reputable.)

Plus, I'm a bit suspicious.  The cheapest I see from other Web hosting 
companies is $15/month, and most are about $20 for their basic service, so 
I'm wondering how GoDaddy can pull this off at $6/month.

Anyway, here is what I need:
1.  About 50 Meg of storage space.
2.  Something that lets me track how many hits I get on each page.  (For 
example, GoDaddy.com charges $4/month, plus for another $2 they give you 
some kind of report that tracks how many hits on each page, who is hitting 
the pages, how long they stay there, etc.)
3.  I want reliable, quality 24/7 phone support.  That's one thing with my 
current ISP service, the phone support is excellent.

Other than that, I don't need a whole lot -- for example, I don't need CGI 
or ASP support (except in-so-far as those are required to track hits).  I'm 
not doing any fancy e-commerce, I just need one site for my tech writing 
Web site (www.OpComm.com), and another site for my book (www.STCYC.com). 
(Currently I have free hosting for the book, but the downside is the 
service can't track hits to the site.)

Anyway, any comments on GoDaddy.com, or can anyone recommend another Web 
hosting company?

Steven Oppenheimer, M.A.
Oppenheimer Communications
Technical and Business Writing:  From Complexity To Clarity (SM)
Steven -at- OpComm -dot- com   www.OpComm.com   (301) 468-9233 


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