I currently have a subdomain at simplenet, but I want to move to a domain. I am not sticking with simplenet though, they've gone bad since they merged with Yahoo. since I am going to focus on a lot of graphical artworks, servers that offer 20 megs are not good for me. I was wondering where can I get enough space, for a reasonable amount of money?

-- Anonymous, June 22, 2000

Answers

I have my buisness domain thru dreamhost.com, and I find them to be great. They will register the domain name and everything for thirty dollars a year (most places it's 70 for two years) and then they have a variety of personal packages to choose from...if you want more than 20mb of space, you might be looking at around 10-20 dollars a month. Of course, if you're cheap like me, you could do what I do...have a personal website hosted somewhere good, that doesn't have popups, etc. (I highly recommend both envy.nu and vitue.nu) and keep your graphics somewhere else, like an angelfire, or geocities account. YES I know it's bad...but it's free, and if you don't tell, I won't. :)

-- Anonymous, June 22, 2000

Warped Communications. They host alot of cam girls and graphic artists, and their rates start at $5 a month.

-- Anonymous, June 22, 2000

or you could do what my evil cheating IRC friends (no me oh no) do, and get a free domain name from namezero.com, and crack the ad frame.

-- Anonymous, June 22, 2000

thanks so far! the problem with dreamhost is that my website is 40 megs, and 20 megs is not enough for the other sites I want to place on my domain :).

and uhm I know about namezero... heh, I really don't mind paying. I ain't no cheap girl. :)

-- Anonymous, June 22, 2000

I'm using http://www.linuxwebhost.com/ for my domain. Mucho cheap with lots of goodies. They aren't very good at tech support, but if you don't need it...

-- Anonymous, June 22, 2000

"Most places it's 70 for two years"

Not since they broke up the Network Solutions monopoly, it's not, although it's interesting to note how most sites continue to make that claim anyway. At DirectNIC, for instance, you can register domain names for $15/year, and you only have to pay for one year at a time.

-- Anonymous, June 22, 2000

I host four domains at Webaxxs plans starting at $10/mo. for like 50 megs.

Very reliable (hasn't been down once in the 6 mo. i've been with them), and 24/7 support, both phone and email.

Good luck!

-- Anonymous, June 22, 2000

Shmuel, are you kidding me? I wish I'd known that before I used up the last bit of available space on my credit card for a domain!

-- Anonymous, June 23, 2000

im in the process of putting up a site at www.shuckyducky.com and its unlimited space and so far, no popups and its free. It was a place that made a deal with him about letting others host on his domain. i haven't had problems so far.

-- Anonymous, June 23, 2000

I like Webaxxs.net, it's just that they don't offer enough space :).

thanks for replying, eventually I decided to stay with simplenet, since I figured that it's the only host that I can actually rely on enough... guess I'll have to limit the bandwidth.

-- Anonymous, June 23, 2000

are you kidding me? 15.95 a month for 400 megs? s'gotta be worth having surely.

-- Anonymous, June 23, 2000

Wait a sec -- who has 400 megs for 15.95??

-- Anonymous, June 23, 2000

I use Concentric. Reliable, lots of space, really slick admin tools, $24.95/mo. (less if you use a something.concentric.net address).

-- Anonymous, June 23, 2000

try register.com

-- Anonymous, June 23, 2000

we use i-dentity.com to host, but if you want to search out your options, here are some sites that pick through everything (server platform, size, cost, etc.):

http://www.hostsearch.com/ http://www.tophosts.com/ http://www.webhostdir.com/ http://www.hostindex.com/

-- Anonymous, June 23, 2000

corina - webaxxs do. it's their "standard" account as opposed to the "lite" option.

-- Anonymous, June 23, 2000

Hey, thanks y'all! This has helped ME a great deal, and y'all didn't even know I needed it. ;) I have been trying to find a decent and decently-priced host myself (after already having registered my domain), and don't know SQUAT about hosting and what most of the offered features are. I mean SQUAT. Good to know someone like WebAxxs offers 24/7 PHONE support -- that's unusual, especially for the price. Sounds like you get a lot of stuffs, too.

But -- anyone have any ideas of places to host for the TOTAL novice? Something WAY user-friendly? I can do some HTML stuff, but really, that's about all I know, but I want my own web page, damn it! (I don't even have a WSYWIG-type program, I don't think...) Anyone? Anyone?

Gracias.

liz

-- Anonymous, June 24, 2000

If it's kick ass web hosting you want, go to CommuniTech.Net out of Kansas City. I dare you to look at their virtual packages' standard features without drooling, and they won't cost you an arm and a leg, either.

You can get 350 megs of web space and a shitpot full of software features, sub-domains, e-mail accounts, etc. for like $23/month. I have my web site hosted there too, www.heith.com, and I couldn't be happier.

-- Anonymous, June 24, 2000

thanks so much everyone... I appreciate your help, and I finally got it hosted :).

-- Anonymous, June 25, 2000

liz: If you have Netscape Communicator, it comes with Netscape Composer, which is a WYSIWYG editor. Not a great one, but at least it's free.

-- Anonymous, June 27, 2000

Here's a little FYI a friend told me about: Check out The Web Hosting Guild. Their scoop says "The WHG is dedicated to raising the standards of the web hosting industry, assuring that consumers receive the highest quality of service from WHG members." They have links to everyone who is a member (with a separate page for "charter" members). Might be a good place to start...

-- Anonymous, June 28, 2000

I just found the WHG's requirements for certification, and I particularly like the first one:

Pager or human available 24/7 for emergencies
Guaranteed response time on emergency support requests (no min. requirements)
Guaranteed response time to emails to technical support (no min. requirements)
At least 8 hours a day direct telephone support available
Incremental backups at least once every 24 hours, with full backups weekly
So there's a little more scoopage for y'all....

-- Anonymous, June 28, 2000