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5 top-rated low cost web hosting sites (for web programmer e-portfolios)

Created by Kelly Walsh (The College of Westchester) on October 25, 2009

The final post in a series that examines tools for students to create and host e-portfolios for little or no cost.
 

Over the last two weeks, I researched free options for creating and hosting e-portfolios for college students, to help with job search efforts. I settled on Google Sites as a great option for laying out a site to display text, images, video, web links, etc., but it won’t support Java scripting or other functionality that may be required by students who wish to display web programming savvy. With that in mind, this week I am looking into inexpensive web hosting sites.

I combed the Internet for reviews of inexpensive web hosting services, and found a good number of sites that are rated well and offer services for $50 to $60 per year or so (they typically quote monthly rates, but you often have to pay for a full year to secure these low rates).

The following 5 providers all cost less than $5/month and were all rated very good (ratings of 90% or better, or 4.5 out of 5) on the various rating sites ...

[Please click here to continue reading the complete post at EmergingEdTech.com, where I blog regularly about the use of Internet technologies in education. Thanks!]

Submitted by Wiliam Smith (Real Time Data Services) on November 3, 2009 - 2:24am.
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Submitted by Matt Matthews (Arizona State University) on March 24, 2010 - 3:21pm.

Great and useful information.  I'm definitely going to take a look at the companies you've provided.  The company I'm currently using for web design and hosting  has been pretty great to me, but it never hurts to look for other options and know what is out there.  Thanks again for sharing your findings.

Submitted by Dorreen Ross (NovelASPect.com Inc) on July 16, 2010 - 4:54pm.
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Submitted by Robert Sonder (Roberts Communications, Inc.) on October 1, 2010 - 8:27pm.

Nice comparison Kelly, those were really cheap hosting services. I know you're only  after the inexpensive ones, though sometime its worth the money if you run into more pricey ones like Managed Hosting Canada. You can enjoy benefits you won't normally get from an inexpensive service. With such, you can be assisted and could forget all about the worries of building and managing on your own. You can weigh the pros and cons and see which solution best fits your needs. 

Submitted by Jeremy Boutin (Right Networks) on October 19, 2011 - 9:02am.
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