[dundee] lost in domain registration & hosting options

[DreamIsDead]

Hey,

My site has been hosted by http://www.hostgator.com/ for the past few months
(shared hosting - the plan called 'baby') and overall I haven't had any
complaints. The service has been reliable and pretty fast, and their tech
support (via online chat) has been available 24/7 and was also very
efficient and helpful.
I'm paying about $8 a month - there are coupons for money off if you search
the internet (get a 404 error on any page hosted by them for example). They
have more expensive plans too if you were looking for something more
substantial (I believe you can upgrade at any time anyway, though I'm not
certain).

They also offer one click installation of various forum, e-commerce etc
software if that's useful to you, though I think that's pretty much the norm
with most hosting.

Hostgator will also register your domain for you, at pretty competitive
rates. I checked, and they registered my domain in my name rather than
theres so there are no worries about them forcing you to stick to their
hosting in order to keep your domain - I've been told this can be a problem
when you register a domain through some hosts.

Generally, just avoid cheap shared hosting which asks you to pay for a year
up front... and don't trust hosting review sites.

Hope that was of some help,

Hazel.

On 18/11/2007, Digit (SG) <digit.siljrath at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>
> i'm looking to get my website/gallery back online...
> been trying to look around for a company (?) to host it. previously had
> wastedartist.com with easyspace... didnt really enjoy that.  so looking
> for someone better...  havnt got a clue and there are like a billion options
> presented before me.... so... thought i'd save myself some time and waste
> some of yours. :D  where the heck do i turn to?  for getting a domain
> registered, and hosting space...  any tips?
>
> i'm sure i'll find he means to get it built (throw a template at the
> problem) by myself. ;)
>
> i left dundee college because they tried to turn the hnc in (all) digital
> media into an hnd in webdesign.  ... an artist.  not a web guy.
>
> - Digit
>
> PS, has anyone checked out the spins of fedora?
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CustomSpins  quite intreaging i thought.
> seeing they have a "tentative" art version.  keen to get back to my own pc
> to dl the "everthing" version.
>
>
> geek update~  dsl4 on usb pendrive...  didnt boot on my mates medion
> lapton, freezing on "loading ohci1394.o..."  'n' none to keen on how it
> partitioned it either.  tsk.
> studio ubuntu discovered as a rather incomplete and messy OS... al the
> helpfiles encountered so far refer to software in ubuntu, no longer present
> in studioubuntu.
> virtual dozes have me giggling with joy.
> months of nework woes explained by dead network cards.  bitter sweet.
> expecting to get a new phone by end of year, and will be putting linux on
> it no doubt.
> still been playing too many turret/tower defence games.~
>
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