The web’s full of services happy to host your photos, blog posts, and other online data, but if you’re control- or privacy-minded, you can do better. If you’re thinking about hosting your own site, check out these five popular personal web hosts.

A few things are worth noting about nomenclature used by web hosts, especially those catering to individuals doing small-time hosting. The term “unlimited” is bandied about a lot in the small web hosting circles. The key to understanding what “unlimited” means is to read the terms of service for your account. Unlimited almost never means “You can use our service as a file dump and share enormous files with your friends” but almost always does mean “We won’t slap you with overages if your legitimate web site racks up some serious bandwidth usage.” With that in mind, we’d urge you to carefully read the fine print of any host you’re considering.

NearlyFreeSpeech (Starting at $0.25/month)

NearlyFreeSpeech is a host that takes an interesting tact. You’re not promised a massive (and oversold) plan that you may never fully utilize; instead, you’re billed incrementally based on usage. If you’re hosting a simple personal landing page site to showcase your resume and some place you can be found online, you may never pay more than a buck or two a month for the tiny amount of resources you use. NearlyFreeSpeech isn’t the easiest personal web host to get started with—they say as much in their FAQ file, where not a “single click” web setup application to be found—but the prices are rock bottom and you’ll be out less than a cup of coffee a month for a simple personal web site. You can view the services offered by NearlyFreeSpeech here.

Bluehost (Starting at $6.95/month)

Bluehost offers unlimited disk storage, unlimited bandwidth, unlimited hosted and parked domains, and a free drag-and-drop web-based site editor. You can have up to 100 MySQL databases, 2,500 email accounts, and a 1,000 FTP accounts. Bluehost offers one-click installation of forum, image gallery, blogging, and content management tools. Check out the details of their hosting features here.

1&1 (Starting at $3.99/month)

1&1 hosting starts at $3.99 a month and even the basic package includes a free domain name. The basic plan comes with 10GB of storage, unlimited monthly transfer, and hosted email. All accounts come with the 1&1 Webspace Explorer a web-based tool for managing account files and site organization. Basic accounts don’t include any one-click application installers, but all accounts above the basic tier include site templates and applications like forums, blogs, and task management tools. You can compare hosting plans at 1&1 here.

HostGator (Starting at $4.95/month)

HostGator packs in quite a few freebies for even their lowest tier plans. The basic “hatchling” plan comes with unlimited disk space and bandwidth, access to their site building application, unlimited email accounts, and dozens of one-click applications like information portals, forums, and more. Upgrading from the basic plan gives you additional features like unlimited domains, domain parking, and SSL. You can compare plans here.

Dreamhost (Starting at $8.95/month)

Dreamhost has made a name for itself with frequent promotional sales with outrageously good prices. Even if you don’t catch them during a promotional window, the $8.95 per month plan includes unlimited storage, bandwidth, email accounts, MySQL databases, and domains hosted. Every account comes with a free domain registration, and additional domains are $9.95. Dreamhost accounts include one-click installation of popular blogging tools, forums, and wiki software. You can view everything included in a hosting package here.

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File Recovery for Mac is a powerful data recovery software that can recover data from deleted, formatted or corrupted hard drives and restore volumes on Apple Mac computers. It’s easy to use, and because it won’t write to the drive you are recovering from it’s safe and cannot harm your data.

Use File Recovery for Mac to recover lost data whether it has been accidentally deleted, the drive has been formatted or partitioned, or if it won’t mount or boot. Just start the program and select the disk volume you want to search. If the drive won’t mount then select the physical drive.

Next you specify the type of file you want to recover. This will save time and make it easier to find what you want.

The Deleted files scan allows you to quickly recover files that have been accidentally deleted, which is the most common type of data loss. File Recovery for Mac will start to scan your hard drive and a list of deleted files will start to appear. You can see thumbnails of many file types, such as photos, and click to preview them. Select the files you wish to recover and save them to a new location.

Lost files scan lets you recover files lost by any other reason. This scan takes longer and may find more files. As with the deleted files scan you can preview many file types before recovery.

Lost volume scan allows you to recover disk volumes that have disappeared or fail to mount. File Recovery will display a list of volume names and you can then recover them.

A Thumbnails mode shows thumbnail images of many files that can be recovered. This is especially useful when recovering lost photos.

Another useful feature of File Recovery for Mac is the Plain text scan. This can be used to display only recoverable files containing specific strings of text. It can be useful when trying to recover lost documents of certain types.
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