YSlow by Yahoo! is a great little plugin for Firefox and Firebug. It looks at a page and uses Yahoo!’s Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site to tell you how to make the page load faster. At least that is the idea behind it. In practice, however, not all of its suggestions are useful or even meaningful.
Let’s break it down and see what is worth the blood, sweat, and tears, and what is not. [read more]
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Host | Review | Storage | Transfer | Price |
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| 1 | 2 | BlueHost | read review | unlimited | unlimited | $6.95 |
| 2 | 4 | HostMonster | read review | unlimited | unlimited | $6.95 |
| 3 | - | HostGator | read review | 350 GB | 3,500 GB | $6.95 |
| 4 | 2 | ANHosting | read review | 500 GB | 5,000 GB | $6.95 |
| 5 | 3 | DreamHost | read review | 190 GB | 1,900 GB | $7.95 |
| 6 | 6 | EasyCGI | read review | 350 GB | 3,500 GB | $7.96 |
| 7 | 8 | Yahoo! | read review | unlimited | unlimited | $11.95 |
| 8 | - | inMotion | review out of date | unlimited | unlimited | $6.95 |
| 9 | 7 | midPhase | read review | 200 GB | 3,000 GB | $7.95 |
| 10 | 5 | Lunarpages | read review | 1,500 GB | 15,000 GB | $6.95 |
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