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NearlyFreeSpeech.net

Insanely cheap. I deposited $5 on November 17th and I still have $2 left in the account, pushing 4.5 to 5GB/month.

I don't know why the hell people are downmodding you, http://nearlyfreespeech.net is pretty brilliant. Sure, having to use classical CGI is undesirable in 2009, but they were doing true distributed cloud-based hosting long before Google App Engine and Heroku came along.

Them and Dreamhost are the only simple shared hosting providers I ever recommend to anyone.

You just lost all credibility for recommending Dreamhost. They're down more than a hooker in red light district and overload their boxes to an average load of 10+. I would not use them for any hosting again.

They're also cheap as hell, have great support, and are honest. They're pretty upfront about CPU being their only contended resource. They'll go as far as corralling CPU hogs together into ghettos so they don't affect normal customers as much.

Classic shared hosting is bullshit in general, but Dreamhost makes the most of it. They're the only one I'd ever recommend.

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