To host my website, I have been using freehosting.com. But its time to move on to bigger better, enter Award Space.

Unfortunately it has become increasingly obvious that the current host has been having a little trouble with speed, sometimes pages can take up to 10 seconds to load, which is far beyond recommended to keep readers engaged.

So I am testing Award Space, it offers the following...

• FREE WEB HOSTING
• Zero Cost per month
• 1 GB Disk Space
• 5 GB Traffic
• 1 Domain Hosting
• 3 Subdomains
• 1 MySQL(v.5) Database (10mb)
• 100% NO ADS
• PHP5 , Perl/CGI-BIN , FTP
• Joomla & Wordpress Installer
• 1 Email(IMAP, POP3), Webmail
• Email Sending (SMTP ON)

Speed wise it looks promising, and the host provides everything needed for a single user website (email, PHP and MySQL DB).

Disk space is plenty for a simple blog, 5 GB traffic should be enough for basic text and pictures.