What is the best fee website hosting service????

BECOKA

Hi all,

I am looking for opinions on website hosting. Ideally I would like my own address so I expect a small yearly fee for the domain name. This site will be coin related so I hope this is the proper forum.

I plan on offering in-depth historical info on coins I collect as well as posting coins for trade and sale.

Thanks ahead of time.

Ben

Barndog

Friends who are more computer geeky than I often say godaddy.com is what they like. But opinions are like, well, you know the rest.

DickyBetz

Photobucket.

gamr0n

I think photobucket is only an image host.

airplanenut

I haven't used a free host in a long time... a lot of hosting companies will provide a free domain if you host with them. I've personally had lots of success with startlogic in the past (and present), and they're quite inexpensive. Any minor problems have been cleared up quickly, and they've got 24/7 online tech support

Fletcher

I have a dedicated server with a bunch of free space. If you aren't going to be doing HUGE amounts of traffic, I'll host your site for 1 cool PCGS coin per year. You decide what you want to send me, but it should be PCGS graded. A $10, $20 or whatever coin. How is that for an offer

BECOKA

Airplanenut, starlogic looks like the place of choice-they have pretty much everything one could want. Is this the site that you use for your design web page?

Fletcher, thanks for the offer and if I was not going to try to setup the trade portion of my site your option would have been fantastic. I like that starlogic can help setup the e-commerce portion to handle funds.

Thanks for all of the replies.

Ben

Barndog

<< <i>What is the best fee website hosting service???? >>



So you were looking for FREE, not fee?

Whitby

I know it sounds crazy, but you could start a Yahoo group or for that matter go with Geocities.

I run a web site for my Moms coal town at Geocities,an exonumia web group at Yahoo (coal Scrip) and a MSN group page as well.

There are alot of good, viable and better yet FREE options.

Good luck

Heywood

I haven't used it, but just read an ad yesterday for

1and1.com

They compare their service and features to Yahoo and Go daddy

Key diff

4.99/ mo vs 11.95 and 9.95
2 doamin names vs 1 /1
web space 10kmb/5kmb/10kmb
2kMB mail vs 2kmb and 10mb

xbob

Heywood's recommendation is a good one. I have used 1&1 for about 3 years now and haven't had a single problem.
Link to 1&1 hosting
They are not free but nearly free since the domain name is included. I don't use their webpage creation tools but they have a lot to offer.
I decided against free hosts becuase of all the annoying pop-ups and advertising they usually require, and automatically insert, on your pages.

Another idea is to check woth your ISP. Many give you a few megs of web space for a site, just no domain name. If you have to pay to ad a domain name, you may as well go with 1&1. Good luck!

airplanenut

Ben,

My site, and lots of sites I've built, are on Startlogic. All of my ebay/forum images are also hosted there.

Jeremy

fc

all i can say is this:

you go with free, you get what you "paid" for.
that often means images loading so slow, i will not
wait for them to display. you can tell when we all
have a picture post, some people's images are just dog
slow even if you are sitting on 4mb/s cable or dsl.

i check where the image is coming from and it is always
a free hosting place or a very very large ISP who gives
a measily 5MB to customers.

so, why not just pay for a domain, 7 dollars, and get a year's
worth of hosting for 40-60 dollars? if you plan to sell on ebay
you will be glad that your several pictures per auction display
super fast for potential customers.

otherwise, why not try sdf.lonestar.org . super cool.

mgoodm3

I use Yahoo. It was a little more expensive than some, but I figured I would stick with a big name. I get 5Gb storage, a domain, EMail, 200Gb/mo bandwidth.

aficionado

I have Cox High Speed internet and they give me space for free to create a web page. I've gotten an address, but haven't figured out how to program the page.

Point is, your web service might allow you space.

Here's what they say:

As a Cox High Speed Internet Customer, you are able to publish your own web site via our Personal WebSpace feature. This feature is great for sharing pictures with family or just for fun.
You may activate Personal WebSpace for each of your email addresses. Each Personal WebSpace can store up to 10 Megabytes of web content, including pictures and HTML.

mgoodm3

Generally you need an FTP program to move things back and forth from your webspace.

BECOKA

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<< <i>What is the best fee website hosting service???? >>



So you were looking for FREE, not fee? >>



At least close to free.

BECOKA

OK, after checking a few of the suggested sites I have decided to go low cost web hosting to get more features and no pop ups.

Again, thanks for all of the replies they were all useful. Now I just have to decide which one so if anyone has example personal or business websites at any of these hosts I would love to see them.

Thanks.

lava

interesting

OneCent

I brought this to the top because I am considering building a coin related webpage and hosting it via godaddy.

My question to all you techno geeks is if I sign-up with godaddy, do they provide the website building tools that I will need to create my site? If so great, if not where or to whom do I go to purchase the website builiding tools.

Thanks

rgCoinGuy

Go daddy is great, there is a program called OS Commerce that has a nice shopping cart, it takes a little playing with to figure out but there is an OS Commerce forum also, I have been slowly working on one myself and that is what I use. There are all sorts of free stuff once you sign up with godaddy, depending on what you are planning on doing. OS Commerce is as it sounds, good if you are planning on selling things.

rgCoinGuy

Edited out double post.

coinsarefun

Both of my website's are hosted by Yahoo. And they have a free download website builder that you publish to the website.
You build the site and publish it your self. I never did it before, but with their software I published two.


Stefanie

pendragon1998

<< <i>I use Yahoo. It was a little more expensive than some, but I figured I would stick with a big name. I get 5Gb storage, a domain, EMail, 200Gb/mo bandwidth. >>



I also run a website on yahoo business. Got a decent deal and haven't had any issues.

mrearlygold

Directnic offers inexpensive hosting for domains as does godaddy.

However what "language" will your website be in? If just an HTML website, then probably buy your domain at Directnic and for a few bucks host it there.

If you are going to be using ASP you need to check around.

johnsim03

Web hosting is cheap, cheap, cheap...

Don't even bother with free hosting. Between pop-ups, google ads, and hosts which are slow, unreliable, and/or just crap, not even
worth discussing for a "professional" web site.

For an e-commerce solution, you not only have to have some software running, like osCommerce (which is good and free),
you also have to spring (eventually) for an SSL certificate for your domain, which could be a bit pricey.

As far as web hosting goes, hard to beat a good outfit like ICD Web Hosting (Link) which
is about $6 per month... Have used them for years on a major domain chess site and they are among the best, IMHO.

John

jessewvu

I use Powweb. They are awesome. 4 years and not one problem or outage. I think it is like $5.77 per month.

The One Plan includes:
1,500 GB Disk Space
15,000 GB/mo Bandwidth
FREE Domain Name
Unlimited Mailboxes
75 MySQL Databases
Host Unlimited Domains


If you end up goign with them, let me know. I think I can get some kind of referal $$$

wayneherndon

One of the best values is Christian Web Host. The host most church sites but will take commercial sites as well. Few places can beat their prices for what you get in the package. If you need space and want your site on dedicated servers, one of the best deals out there is EWD Web Host.

WH

mrearlygold

oxy8890

Start Logic is awesome.

cmerlo1

Don't use gate.com...their customer service is horrible.