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mark merrens wrote: The Sun Rotating [^].
Noooooooo! Don't tell me the sun rotates. 
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
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I'm considering getting one of them thar new fangled domain thingies.
I have several possible names [all cheap  ] and I am now at the next stage of working out what to do.
I will need a host - no way will I run a server here 24/7 to keep the hordes satisfied. I would like to be able to choose exactly how I set things up. My idea is a simple personal site with a blog. I want to be have full control of what technology it runs, probably straight to DVD stuff first, RoR or ASP [I have yet to settle which] but I want the option to change things as I see fit. Then I would like to be able to have e-mail that I can access from any where - so a web portal is good as well as having it on my phone and desktop.
My web knowledge to date is mostly as a user. I know some of you guys and gals even make money from it, so what would be a good starting place for me?
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I use Arvixe[^] - they are pretty cheap, and I haven't had any real problems. The tech support isn't bad either.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I had tons of issues with Arvixe, so I switched to HostGator[^]
Stephane
"Facebook is like prison - sitting, wasting time, writing on walls and being poked by people you don't even know."
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Arvixe has its moments, but generally OK, and cheap as chips.
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Arvixe[^], methinks. As do several others.
/ravi
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I would also say Arvixe are okay.
However, keep your domain name/s registered elsewhere: I use Network Solutions or Go-Daddy (cheap).
Best not to keep all your eggs in a single basket.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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Whatever you do, stay away from Arvixe. It's used mostly by hackers and sheep ... 
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"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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I use EvoHosting here in the uk.
A basic package is less then the electricity you'd need to run from home.
They've never let me down once in four years.
Basic package includes free DN, a proper one at that(I have a dotcom), ftp server, website, three domain emails(for which you can change the names/passwords in about a minute.
All accessed through cPanel, and 10G bandwidth, hosted on StarScreamer and Linux.
Excellent host.
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I've tried quite a few. Finally settled on Rackspace for email hosting, GoDaddy for domains (have a good DNS management tool) and Azure for hosting web servers (they host VMs with Windows Server and Linux at reasonable prices).
I haven't found a single company that does everything well though for a reasonable price.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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I use Servage.net They give unlimited space with unlimited bandwidth. They have lot of add on installer scripts for blogs, forums, polls, etc. They also give you 1 free domain name. and price is pretty cheap. Look at their website, you will like it for sure.
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I've been using risingnet/[^] for my webspace and an ircshell for the last year or so. Never had any problems; but because what I'm running is more HHTPfiledump than actual site the odds of my noticing anything shorter than a week outage on the web hosting are slim. I'd notice shell problems right away and the longest outages I've had were a pair that were several hours long outside of normal business hours.
Edit: Looked at their page, and they've added 1 click installers for some generic webapps. The reduced setup effort might get me to install a proper photo gallery and a blog I never post on at some point...
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I have actually used JustHost. I have had great customer service from them, never had any real issues, set up quite a few domains with them over the years. Might not be as cheap as some of the ones mentioned here, but a good balance between service and price imho.
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My setup is DomainReg + hosting through hostgator
wordpress blog installation is a 1-click setup through them, and is working very well for me. If you want to have complete control you can get dedicated server hosting. I use the shared hosting and it's totally adequate.
For e-mail I have hostgator forward all my e-mail to my @outlook.com account and have an alias set up there which is my hostgator-fielded e-mail address. Therefore I have a custom domain, but get to read & send mail via outlook.com and also take advantage of their spam handling, address book, etc. It's a great set up if you've got Windows 8 and/or Windows Phone to tie the whole thing together.
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I've been using GoDaddy for several years. They give you several gigabytes of web space and more bandwidth than I've ever used (for a personal site) along with 100 MB of e-mail space (you can buy more) and up to 99 e-mail accounts in that space. You can have MySQL, MS Access, and MS SQL Server databases. I use the ASP/ASP.NET support, but I think they support PHP as well.
They'll do the domain search and set up for you with only a nominal charge.
I've had no major complaints about them. Their uptime is pretty good, I had a weather app that was pumping data from my backyard weather gauges to the SQL Server data base once a minute 24/7/365 and it would report connection problems for about 2-3 minutes in the middle of the night, but aside from that, it worked fine for rest of the time for the few years I was doing that.
Their user interface can be a bit wonky in that it is not intuitively obvious how to navigate it. It is geared to sales, so you might find yourself dancing around a bit before you figure out how to get to the maintenance screens.
I had some problems recently in that the e-mails were not purging from the e-mail workspace with their web e-mail interface, but their tech support cleared it up and it has been trouble free since.
Psychosis at 10
Film at 11
Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it.
Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.
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I'm a casual web developer myself (ASP.Net). I hosted with IX Web Hosting for several years but they kept having systemic problems. More recently I found WinHost which I find works really well, particularly with ASP.Net and SQL Server. Cost is about $100/year I think (including your domain registration and all that).
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I am using GOdaddy for my website and have no particular issue. they provide very good documentation / technical support. i had several issues while setting up my first site but that was because of my lack of knowledge but the Godaddy documentation helped me a lot and works fine for me. as per my knowledge they provide both asp.net / php support very well on windows
Ravi Khoda
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I submitted an article many moons ago and I just went to find it & see what's happening with it.
Now I can see it from my 'Articles' and its says its in 'Articles>General Reading>Scrapbook>General' but when I look in there I don't see it, in fact don't see a 'General' in 'Scrapbook' ... does that mean no one can see it any more?
Or what am I doing wrong? 
Ali
"Tofu is the Dark Matter of the culinary world." - Henry Minute
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Back to that account Ali? Just out of curiosity: How many have you got?
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Johnny J. wrote: Back to that account Ali?
No, just for today. 
I have changed to another account ... (shhh .... don't tell anyone) ... but I searched for my Article with that account and I couldn't find it, so I logged back on with this one.
Ali
"Tofu is the Dark Matter of the culinary world." - Henry Minute
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LittleYellowBird wrote: No, just for today.
Good - you shouldn't be away from your beloved chocolate for too long. We wouldn't want a catastrophe on our hands here... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Bush's Tragedy
One day, President Bush visited an elementary school. All the kids were so excited to get to meet the President. He began to talk to them and asked them to define the word ''tragedy.''
"Well," one girl replied, "If my mommy ran over my dog, Rover, that would be a tragedy!"
The President smiled at the little girl and said, "No, sweetie. That would be an accident! Can anyone give it a try?"
A little boy sitting across the room raised his hand and said, "I know! I know! If our bus driver ran off of a cliff and killed everyone!"
The President shook his head and said, "No son. That would be a great loss! Doesn't anyone know of a good example of a tragedy?"
A small girl raised her hand and said, "Well, Mr. President, if you and Laura were in Air Force One and it was hit by a missile and blown to smithereens, most people would think that that was a tragedy!"
"Very good," he said. "And what was your reason for that answer?"
"Well," she said, "It would not be an accident and it sure would not be a great loss!"
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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