Just migrated from a free server to a paid one (nearlyfreespeech.net). NFS really takes the cake when it comes to ‘pay as you use’ services. They offer 1 GB B/W for as low as Rs.50 and 50 paise per MB per month. I mean, geeez!
And to top it all, it’s prepaid, just like renewing my mobile phone balance…
Am hoping this one turns out to be different and not throw some hidden TOS clause on my face… 
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29/03/2009 at 9:40 am Permalink
I came here from the thread you started in NFSN’s forum. I’m not employed or otherwise affiliated to them. Just a happy customer.
They won’t.
My site, though by no means huge, is probably busier than 95% of WP installations out there. It’s not unusual for discussion threads to run to hundreds of comments.
My costs are between $1 and $2 per month.
29/03/2009 at 5:55 pm Permalink
I too came from the forums.
NFS is absolutely brilliant. Once you use more than 1GB of b/w, it starts getting cheaper and cheaper. I’ve used about 6.8GB on one account and it now it only costs me $0.55 per GB, compared to $1.00 per GB at the beginning.
29/03/2009 at 8:52 pm Permalink
Welcome to blogging.
NearlyFreeSpeech is a good choice.
I am not clear on one pricing model, that is 50 paise per Mb per month
Suppose, If I host 1GB of files in NFS host, that would costs 10$ per month right?
plus b/w extra (which is dependent on the user visits)
30/03/2009 at 4:16 am Permalink
Thanks
It’s basically this:
Data Transfers (Bandwidth):Starts at $1.00 per gigabyte and goes down.
Disk Space (Storage):$0.01 per megabyte-month
MySQL Process: $0.01 per day per process
Technically, they charge you per GigiByte (1,073,741,824 bytes) and not per GigaByte (1,000,000,000 bytes)
“Suppose, If I host 1GB of files in NFS host, that would costs 10$ per month right?
plus b/w extra (which is dependent on the user visits)”
Yes…but it’s cheap for site’s like mine…my webspace does not exceed 8MB
30/03/2009 at 7:28 am Permalink
Yes, it’s expensive if you host a lot of files with them. There are ways around that though, for example you could host your files with Amazon S3, and still have NFSN hosting the application.
The good news, maybe, for people like you (and bad news for Aditya and myself) is that they’re aware that this is a problem, and plan at some point to start charging for CPU usage as well. That’s not good for demanding apps like WordPress. They don’t intend to charge more overall, so this will be accompanied by a reduction in the cost of storage.
I would still be happy with the service, even if my costs doubled.
02/04/2009 at 9:30 am Permalink
i just chked nfs out..sounds 2 good 2b true..if it is..another customer joinin in.. [:D]
02/04/2009 at 1:07 pm Permalink
@Daran:
tht’s news to me…it would just be like normal hosting then, except it would be prepaid…even justhost.com offers an ‘unlimited’ plan (with a 10% CPU Usage Policy) at $3.95
if the costs doubled, i would think of hosting someplace else…
03/04/2009 at 1:15 am Permalink
NFS is best for sites that get little traffic. Even their FAQ says so: https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/about/faq.php#BigNumbers