Hosting services $15 per year?

Comcast has ended its personal web pages as of October 8, 2015.
 
I was using them for this or for that.
 
I do utilize my personal website today for some automation stuff.
 
I just found one with a $30 per year discounted to $15 per year reoccurring.
 
Just wondering if this is a good price?
 
I also found a free one called X10hosting.

But a NAS drive with its own web hosting or repurpose an old machine with Linux+Apache, and DyDNS.

Thank you elvisimprsntr; have that already set up.
 
IE: been using no ip dot com now for many many years.
 
I would prefer for this endeavor to use a hosted website.  I am testing x10 hosting and it is working fine. 
 
I am uploading stuff from multiple locations and prefer to upload data to a hosted website than mine.

I've used TotalChoiceHosting for 10+ years and have had nothing but great service over that time. I pay $44/yr for their "Starter" plan.
 
http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/shared.html

pete_c said:

Comcast has ended its personal web pages as of October 8, 2015.
 
I was using them for this or for that.
 
I do utilize my personal website today for some automation stuff.
 
I just found one with a $30 per year discounted to $15 per year reoccurring.
 
Just wondering if this is a good price?
 
I also found a free one called X10hosting.

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Free web hosting....interesting. What's their end in it? How can they run their hosts for free?
 
Mike.

Relating to Comcast personal web pages were always included.  They always mentioned it was going away.  I only used it for a couple of things with no real dependences on it. (sort of)
 
Yes I do not know how the X10 company does it for free.  There are no advertisements.  I like the name too as it brings back fond memories of early automation stuff.  They have been around a long time from what I am reading.
 
I get more with the free hosting service that the one now discounted from $6 per month to $3 per month.  Odd thing is that I can move txt files and images manually via Filezilla but I am having an issue with a script that writes / copies (put) a text file or an image file with the free service. 

I use X10 for hosting my Cumulus webpage and data.
 
It's "free" however you must logon to their control panel once a month to keep it active.   That's the advertising.  They will email you with a reminder.
I'm not thrilled with this version of "free", but it works.
 
I have another host grandfathered in at $18/year for personal email.  Great value, however they are touchy.   Make 3 failed logons and they blacklist your IP from their firewall.   I've had my devices (iphone, ipad, computers) make failed logons multiple times and they blacklisted my IP.  Had to contact them to fix it many times.   So I don't dare use it for Cumulus which uploads every 15 seconds.
 
Other "free" hosts don't support the file formats for Cumulus.  They will upload, but won't "serve" them back to the client.  If it's not a HTM/L or PHP page, they refuse to answer the request.
 
I've never felt that comfortable opening port 80 into my home network to host locally with a NAS or old PC.  Just seems like inviting hackers to respond to a ping on that port.  And years ago I dealt with many hacks on Microsoft boxes to tire of hosting anymore.   Sure, a Linux/Apache box is probably safe, I don't want the attention on my WAN IP.
 
I miss the days of limited ads on truly "free" sites.  Google Sites is also a great "free" host.  With Godaddy "masking" you can make it look like a regular site.  However, they don't support FTP and I believe it's all template driven.   I have a couple of sites with them and it looks professional enough for a web presence for my ultra cheapo clients who won't pay for hosting.
 
--Russ
 
 

Thank-you Russ.
 
I got the X10 host site working today with Cumulus.  I wrote on the forum about my issues, posted the text files and all is well now.
 
Yup; here using another host service for email for years now with no issues.  There are so many out there in internetlandia.
 
The other host service I was looking at for Cumulus is called hostwithlove dot com. 
 
They have a special right now for $15 per year reoccurring deal.
 
Steve's hosting service for Cumulus is around $31 / year which is an OK price.