My freind and I have been working on a project for a while. It got a lot of traffic when we first started it, but began to get bored and didnt maintain it at all. We've been paying $8.95 every month with hostgator. We are re-coding the site and are planning on deploying it soon. Should we still use Hostgator, or is there a free alternative we could use for the small amount of traffic we will recieve? (Around 500-1000 hits a day)
For a lightly loaded site Google AppEngine might meet your needs. I use it for proof-of-concept sites. Some people have reported problems with it, but you can always seamlessly switch to AppScale which runs on Amazon EC2 and other environments if / when your load requires it.