Fast webhost, little disk space, with php, mysql, phpmyadmin, and alot of bandwidth.

The most important requirement is that the webhost must be fast. It must have alot of bandwidth.
The disc space is not so important. 200 MB would be enough.
It must have PHP, MySQL and phpmyadmin installed.
Must be accesable through FTP.
There are offcourse more requirements. But the main thing is that i want it to be fast. My pages will be only informative and exists of just mainly text and an image every now and then.

Do you know any fast webhosts that is good to handle websites with large amounts of visitors?

I'm looking for something around 6 dollars per month.

I dont know much about webhosting at all, so i'd appreciate any help i can get

Also i see websites where you can register a domain. But the prices vary, isn't a domain just a domain? What makes this price difference?

thanks in advance

Which web site are you going to host there?

My own, its not online yet. It will be just articles and tutorials and stuff. And probably there won't be that many visitors but just in case i want it to be able to handle many visitors at a reasonable speed. And I want it to be fast so that the visitors that do visit my site at least get a good experience, speedwise.

Thanks

Have a look at Hostgator.com - they seem to be one of the fastest. I have heard lots of feedbacks on them. Also try HQHost.net. They are not so huge but fast as well

Phpmyadmin is installed by default or you won't have any problems if you ask your host to install it. So the main requirement is bandwidth and CPU.
As a shared account is using resources which are distributed among all the users on the server, your site performance depends to a great extent on how these sites are performing. From this point of view, a semi-dedicated account or VPS might be a better deal, but you'll have to up your budget a little bit. Vps deals are widely offered now, both managed and unmanaged, you may check jaquarpc.com, hostww.net or a2hosting.com vps deals.

Thanks for the replies, i've looked at all the links and there seem to be a few nice ones.

But i'm wondering, what is the difference between semi-dedicated hosting and vps hosting? Or is vps hosting a form of semi-dedicated hosting?

Couldn't find a real clear explanation as to what both terms mean, just found loads of sites offereing these types of hosting.

Also do you know if companies often let you switch to a different hosting package that they offer. So for example, you choose a package for $5 dollar per month for 1 year. Then after 3 months you want to change to another package that they offer which costs $7. Its easy to get your account converted without any additional costs?

Thanks

Stefan, semi-dedicated is rather a type of shared services, while VPS is a type of dedicated services. On a semi-dedicate plan you don't have any root access, share resources with other people and consequently you are limited by what are other other sites using at the moment. Semi-dedicated is good as usually the number of accounts on the server is limited. From 2 to 40 (depends on the host).
VPS is a dedicated server where you have all the resources for yourself, it's different fromdedicated as you share RAM between clusters, so you have dedicated RAM (which is yours only) and burstable RAM (you can use at peaks if it's free, that is others don't use it).
Check this to read more about it< hope it will help.
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=355272

What is burstable RAM?

A dedicated server can be divided into clusters by virtualization technique, so that each of this smaller clusters. I think wikipedia can define this in a better way


When we are talking about VPS we mean virtualization of resources, the amount of RAM allocated to you by your hosting provider is called guaranteed RAM.

Burstable RAM is the memory that's available beyond the guaranteed ram. For instance your VPS might have 256mb guaranteed ram, and 1024mb burstable ram. This means that after you have used up your guaranteed ram, there's still 768mb burstable ram available for burst usage - IF there's enough free memory on the host server.

There are hosting plans wirth double amount of RAM, say www.HostV.com offer double amount of RAM in their VPS plans, can be a good deal actually.

But usually you should know exactly much much RAM you are going to use not to lose nisitors to your site at peak's moments.

Jaguarpc.com and GlobalTap.com are quality VPS providers I can think of at the moment, aqnd I'm sure their support staff can help you with choosing the plan.

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A few of the larger known hosts out there are hostgator, site, etc. I have seen some good reviews for KnownHost lately, might want to check them out.