Jusqu'au 31 janvier 2008, le pack hébergement Active Start de Lycos est à 1 € TTC par an seulement. (0,83 € HT!)

Cette offre inclue 1 Go d'espace disque et 15 Go de transfert par mois (ce que Lycos indique comme équivalent à 150.000 visites par mois).

Il s'agit là indéniablement de la meilleure offre d'hébergement partagé du moment si votre site fait moins de 150.000 visites par mois.

MidPhase recently sent me those pictures of their new datacenter hosting their servers for AN Hosting as well as MidPhase.

I think they look cool. Actually I think hosts should always show their data centers on their website... but they rarely do. I don't know, is it me having a fetish for server racks??

Seriously, I believe how neat or how messy someone's datacenter is tells you a lot!

AN Hosting has increased their specs even further as part of their "Halloween Hosting Extravaganza Sale". They are now at TRIPLE their normal specs while still below their normal price!

• TRIPLE DISK SPACE: 750 GB
• TRIPLE BANDWIDTH: 7.5 TB / Month
• TRIPLE DOMAINS: 60 on 1 account
• LOWER PRICE: $5.95/mo instead of $6.95

If you want to take advantage of this, watch out, the promo is only valid until "Midnight on Halloween" (October 31st, 11:59 PM Central).

Our take: their double specs promo was good; this one is even better! If you need space and bandwidth, it's a no brainer: go for that one until it lasts!

In order to best evaluate the hosting offers out there, we open one or more test accounts at each hosting company before reviewing their service. This also allows us to make sure the b2evolution software works well on as many hosting platforms as possible, especially with our b2evolution hosting partners.

While we will register one test account anonymously, when possible, we also make one account public so that you can check for yourself how good or not a particular host is, especially in terms of server speed / bandwidth...

Here is a list of public tests sites we have set-up:

Hosting partners:

1. ANhosting
2. BlueHost
3. Globat
4. HostGator
5. HostICan
6. HostMonster
7. HostUpon
8. InMotion
9. LunarPages
10. MidPhase
11. PowWeb
12. VistaPages
13. WebHostingBuzz
14. WebHostingPad

Under review:

14. HostColor
15. HostingPlex
16. ThinkHost
17. 1 & 1 US
18. GoDaddy
19. Omnis

You may actually wish to check back on these test sites at times that matter the most to you, in order to see if you'll get good server speed at that time of the day. It is often ok to wait a second more for a web page to load, but it gets painful when every page of an administrative interface takes 1 second too long!

We have a new coupon for hosting at LunarPages on a 12 month contract:

Coupon code 8offadd1 will get you $8 off plus 1 month free on a 12 month Basic, Business or Windows plan.

This is in addition to our previous coupon valid for 24 month contracts:

Coupon code B2 will get you $26 off plus 1 month free on 24 month plans.

Our take: If you do the math, this is what you really get:

• Coupon 8offadd1: ($6.95 * 12mo - $8) / 13 = $5.80/mo instead of $6.95.
• Coupon B2: ($6.95 * 24mo - $26) / 25 = $5.63/mo instead of $6.95.

Not bad at all!

LunarPages has a good reputation for their customer service in the shared hosting market. Until now their pricing made them most attractive for long term (24 month) plans. This coupon makes them a very serious candidate to consider for short term plans also.

AN Hosting is having an "Halloween Hosting Extravaganza Sale":

• DOUBLE DISK SPACE: 500 GB
• DOUBLE BANDWIDTH: 5 TB / Month
• DOUBLE DOMAINS: 40 on 1 account
• LOWER PRICE: $5.95/mo instead of $6.95

If you want to take advantage of this, watch out, the promo is only valid until "Midnight on Halloween" (October 31st, 11:59 PM Central).

Our take: AN Hosting is a cPanel shared hosting provider with higher than average software updates (recent versions of PHP, MySQL, etc.) Getting their plan at $5.95 instead of $6.95 makes them a very interesting deal.