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Posted by dampeoples on 07-18-2002 07:30 PM:

Website Hosting

With the advent of .mac, I'm looking for a good spot to host my website, well three of them eventually. In the past, Apple would not let you create a discussion board on Homepage, so I had to go to EZ-board for this, at a cost to eliminate advertising. I also want to have some movies of the kids available for the grandparents, long trips out of town, etc.
My question is this - what hosting company will provide 100MB of storage competitive to $100yr? I cannot find the .mac bandwidth limitations and don't have a clue as to what I use. I'd like to stay with Apple, but if they are not going to allow a message board, and I have to pay to maintain an ad-free site, I need to go elsewhere. Any suggestions? Fixes for a message board? Thanks,

Posted by BudPritchard on 07-18-2002 09:42 PM:

Try this site:
http://www.10-best-web-site-and-dom...ndex.html?p=157

I haven't had a need for web hosting, so I can't vouch for the site's accuracy. May be useful for a starting point.

Posted by Schrader on 07-18-2002 09:57 PM:

my friend keeps telling me dotster for the domain and phpwebhosting for the site host.

the hosting is about $27 per year, I think.

Posted by mensachicken on 07-18-2002 10:23 PM:

i highly recommend dreamhost .

mc

Posted by zieak on 07-20-2002 12:42 AM:

Dreamhost looks nice. I was pretty impressed with Omnistar and their customer service. When I'm in the market it looks like it will be either one of them...

Posted by dampeoples on 07-28-2002 07:46 AM:

Thanks for all the suggestions. I am, however, a HTML idiot and wouldn't know where to begin with FTP, so I stuck with .mac, shelled out my 1/2 price first year and decided to learn this stuff before the year is out so I could obtain cheaper hosting next go around.

Posted by Yorick on 07-28-2002 11:55 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by dampeoples
I am, however, a HTML idiot and wouldn't know where to begin with FTP

You could have used the trial version of .mac to set up your website, then saved all the pages to your local hard disk, and uploaded them to your new host.
Or your could get Dreamweaver or any of a number of other visual website design software packages.
FTP is File Transfer Protocol. It's just a means of moving files. You need simple client software, such as Fetch, and it's like moving files from one disk to another.

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Posted by dampeoples on 07-29-2002 12:21 AM:

quote:
Originally posted by Yorick

You could have used the trial version of .mac to set up your website, then saved all the pages to your local hard disk, and uploaded them to your new host.
Or your could get Dreamweaver or any of a number of other visual website design software packages.
FTP is File Transfer Protocol. It's just a means of moving files. You need simple client software, such as Fetch, and it's like moving files from one disk to another.

I thought about just sending my existing pages over to a new host, but didn't know how well it would work, the fishing club is paying for half of it anyway so it's not that bad of a deal for me. Maybe next year we'll move the stuff to a new host, the $50 for the first year was still cheaper than anything else I found.

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