Starting a website

[Mike Weiss]

During last year I started my own website that featured photos, bio's, video, etc of my chase exploits. At the time I was using Yahoo for the domain, web hosting, etc...I was not really pleased with the cost of this service, so I cancelled it.
I am looking to redo a website. Just curious what is recommended for web hosting, costs involved, etc...Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Dennis Sherrod]

Go with: http://www.drylinehosting.com/

It is owned and operated by David Drummond, an ST member. Good service and pricing.

 

[Mikey Gribble]

I started mine up a couple years ago and used Yahoo too. I am not happy with them at all. The cost doesn't bother me too much (I think it's like $12 a month), but their web building software sucks, it does crazy things all the time that it's not supposed to do, there aren't enough options on it to make your website look real proffesional and last but certainly not least the stats they provide you with are horribly inaccurate. For example I'll get like 300 hits overall one day, so I'll pull up my details to see what pages were getting all the hits (it's my blog most of the time), but it will show I have 2 hits on my blog. I still can't get it to show hits on my blog or on a lot of other pages. Last year my stats just decided to reset itself. I think I had 9,000 hits and the next day when I got on it had dropped back down to 4,000. It's ridiculous.
I want to get some decent web building software with a decent host. It is going to be a huge pain transfering everything over, but it's only going to get worse with time. Is there a way to keep my same home page address if I change hosts and start using a new site building software?

 

[Mike Weiss]

Mikey, as far as I know, once you own a domain name, it is yours to keep and or transfer. I have heard some good things about Godaddy.com. But there again, computer skills and website, really elude me.

 

[Tyler Burg]

I use Godaddy.com, for the most part it's alright, but you have to get the hang of things first. I will say that their customer service is fairly lame, I once emailed them about a problem I was having and they replied, "sorry we aren't supposed to give out that kind of information." and yeah I got pretty mad about that. It also depends on what type of site design you want to make, if your looking for something more professional looking, you
ll have to spend more money, but if you just are going to do something basic with just HTML it is very cheap, but takes a while to learn all the HTML stuff. I think I pay $7 a month. I used to have my domain hosted on blogspot, and the transfer was pretty easy, it just took about 24 hours for everything to start working again.

So to sum it up... Expect to pay between $5-20 per month depending on if you want a more professional look, and I'd recommend dryline hosting too, I've heard better things about it, like the tech support is nice. But Godaddy isn't too bad.

Good Luck.

 

[Jason Boggs]

Go with: http://www.drylinehosting.com/

It is owned and operated by David Drummond, an ST member. Good service and pricing.

Like Dennis said, I'd also go with drylinehosting.com. Granted, I've never used it, but I've heard nothing but good things from people who have.

 

[David Drummond]

For you guys talking about the sitebuilders. We implemented a new sitebuilder the first of this year. You can sign up for free and give it a try for a few days. http://sitebuilder.drylinehosting.com

When you sign up it will email you a link to click and activate. Be sure to check spam filters if you didn't seem to get it.