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    Default Webhost and the costs of putting up your own website.

    I know a number of you are old hands at this, but it's new to me. I've already registered several domain names, and purchased an inexpensive, yet very basic one-year hosting package.

    For those of you who have had your own websites for at least a few months, can you describe any potential problems/snags?

    I've found one book I like re: programming and web design for a site, but mine will primarily be text anyway, as I want to hold pictures down to, at most, 2 to 3 small jpegs.

    And I have not decided what I want to do yet, as this is a learning experience. Three possibilities are

    1. A site encouraging people to leave either the Democratic or Republican Party and register as an independent, since your vote will automatically be taken for granted if you remain a member of either of the two major parties.

    2. A site attempting to create an initiative for the California ballot which would, if at all possible, require the payment of a large amount of monetary damages directly from the state treasury - payment to any California resident having suffered identity theft. Only being applied, however, when there has not been a good-faith effort by local and/or state authorities to rapidly correct the problem and help the victims of this crime. The difficulty here, iirc, it now requires a minimum of $2 million to qualify a potential proposition for the ballot, and most potential propositions never make it that far.

    3. A website for a new organization to be created encouraging college students to pay cash whenever possible - i..e., you find those college students who believe in this and have them counter the banking/credit card industry reps at various colleges and universities. One technique might be passing out copies of the new bankruptcy laws with "plain English" explanations attached. Also information as to which lobbyists provided "donations" to various Congressional reps and Senators. And the votes of those Congressional reps and Senators would also be provided with thia information. I regard this as something akin to discouraging teenagers from smoking, but in this case, simply encouraging the majority of young adults in college to pay cash whenever possible.

    Any one of these would be a lot of work for me, so would I be better off starting out with something oriented to the simpler side of things? And if any of the above sites already exist, I don't want to spend any time "reinventing the wheel."

    As I've already written, this is primarily a learning experience for me, so my final question is does anyone know of a good, reasonably-priced, webhost who will automatically cap your bandwidth instead of automatically charging you more, and which has a reputation for great customer service? Any general hints/suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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    Default Re: Webhost and the costs of putting up your own website.

    i know absolutely nothing about hosting services but i will comment anyway.

    I assume they will all ask you if you want to billed more for exceeding bandwidth limits.

    i see godaddy commercials and this is one quote:
    https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/hosti...5Fhdr=&ci=5652
    $6.30/month 100 GB Disk Space, 1,000 GB Data Transfer, 25 MySQL Databases, SQL Server 2000

    Yahoo quote
    http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting/compare.php
    $11.95/month 5 GB storage, 200 GB data transfer per month PHP, MySql, Perl -$25 setup fee, free domain name,


    http://geocities.yahoo.com/ why not try a free site like this one..

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    Default Re: Webhost and the costs of putting up your own website.

    you should try e-mailing the ACLU and ask them for free hosting ... they'll probably be glad to provide it given the nature of your planned content.

    In terms of paid hosting, go-daddy has some of the lowest priced bandwidth to be found anywhere for small, non-profit, non-adult content websites. There are also the 'technically free' hosting services like 100megsfree, geocities etc. but you're stuck with the host's popups and automatic links in exchange for the freebie.

    Now if you're planning on being able to collect 'donations' via online credit card transactions, you're opening a whole 'nuther can of worms.

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    Default Re: Webhost and the costs of putting up your own website.

    Quote Originally Posted by Melonie
    you should try e-mailing the ACLU and ask them for free hosting ... they'll probably be glad to provide it given the nature of your planned content.

    In terms of paid hosting, go-daddy has some of the lowest priced bandwidth to be found anywhere for small, non-profit, non-adult content websites...
    Not sure I would agree as to the ACLU providing free hosting...the third possibility about encouragng college students to pay caah whenever possible they probably would support. But encouraging people to leave the Democratic party in addition to the Republican Party...I have my doubts they would be willing to support that one. I also doubt they'd support the potential initiative related to identity theft...given I suspect the vast majority of the identity theft to be related to illegal immigration...a form of immigration the ACLU actively supports.

    And there is no way in Haedes I would be requesting "donations" on a web site. If I find some item I believe might be worthwhile selling over the 'Net that's one thing.- but the regulations associated with political donations are a royal pain in the posterior.

    And in replying to both you and space-Cadet_28 as well, my thanks to both of you for your advice. As it happens, the one-year hosting package I chose to purchase was from Go Daddy, but I had a WTF? reaction while deciding what services I wanted...seemed to be too much "bait and switch," but for all I know, most of the hosting services might do this. I just wanted domain privacy as an extra service, and between one domain registered with Go Daddy and two at another domain registration service, my one-year package came in at a few cents under $5/month for 5GB of space, one email address and 250GB of monthly transfer. which includes payment to both companies for services rendered.

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    Default Re: Webhost and the costs of putting up your own website.

    Great topic. I've thought more than once about hosting my own message board. Where is the best place to start if one wants to host their own message board? How much computer expereince is needed to keep one up and running?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fan_Dancer
    Great topic. I've thought more than once about hosting my own message board. Where is the best place to start if one wants to host their own message board? How much computer expereince is needed to keep one up and running?
    I am hosting a couple.

    There are many sites that will install the software and host if for you. I recommend using simple machines forums for the boards you can find this at . You can then google smf hosting and see who will host if for you.

    It runs on MySql under Linux or Windows. Linux, MySql, PHP, and SMF forums are all free.

    Given that you probably won't have a lot of traffic, it won't cost you a lot to host.

    Administration is incredibly simple and menu driven to create the boards, groups, registration process, etc. You should have some gif editing experience so that you can change smflogo.gif and your on.gif and off.gif to start customizing your sites.

    If your are MAD enough to want to screw around with this at home. You can do the following things.

    There books at Amazon that will walk you through the installation step by step. Search for Learning PHP and mySQL.

    If you are running Windows Professional it comes with Internet Information Services (The Web Part) and you can actually run it off of your home computer and mess around with learning the administration and installation. You have to install IIS using your windows components.

    In order for the world to find you you must have the web name. You get this through godaddy or I use . The next part is matching this domain name with an IP address. You do this through DNS services from godaddy.com or netsol.com You should have a "static" IP address but there are options to forward to a dynamic IP address.

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    Default Re: Webhost and the costs of putting up your own website.

    why dont you try a free forum for a while.
    http://forumer.com/ <- to me the forum looks similiar to this board.
    example

    http://www.1-2-free-forums.com/ another free forum place i believe.

    you can probably search for more. and let it be said i don't know anything about how these things go.

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    Default Re: Webhost and the costs of putting up your own website.

    Re the original question, you should take a look at SBI / sitesell. I use it for two of my sites. It is not the cheapest by any means, but the amount of advice, help, customer service is beyond belief. It is an amazing package for the price. They also have a private forum for members which is the most helpful place online that you are likely to come across. In my view, the forum is worth the money alone.

    My sites are not pretty, I don't plan to be a web designer, I am better at writing the content, of which I produce a lot. For me, it is an excellent organisation.

    If you are interested, pm me. They have a system which I haven't investigated that lets you look around the forum as a guest without being able to post. I'd need to figure it out as to how to do it, but I will if you need.

    They also have an affiliate program, which I have not investigated, but as I understand it, I should be able to get you a good deal through that. I'd need to look into it though - I have spent my time working on my sites, not theirs...

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    Default Re: Webhost and the costs of putting up your own website.

    Quote Originally Posted by Sitri
    I am hosting a couple.

    There are many sites that will install the software and host if for you. I recommend using simple machines forums for the boards you can find this at . You can then google smf hosting and see who will host if for you.

    It runs on MySql under Linux or Windows. Linux, MySql, PHP, and SMF forums are all free.

    Given that you probably won't have a lot of traffic, it won't cost you a lot to host.

    Administration is incredibly simple and menu driven to create the boards, groups, registration process, etc. You should have some gif editing experience so that you can change smflogo.gif and your on.gif and off.gif to start customizing your sites.
    A belated to Sitri

    Someday in the future I would like to have a burlesque and other stage performance themed board so I'm starting research on hosting

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