Registering Domain name and web hosting

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I'm interested in registering a domain name and finding a web hosting service, who do you use and what is a reasonable price (in US dollars)? Thanks for any information.
 
I just got 500mb of space with the domain name jflan.net for $7.99 and a monthly fee of $4.95 at Edmunds Enterprises. I have purchased Linux disks from them for some years now. They have other larger account options.

They provide a web based management tool. I have already set up email and ftp accounts. Email can be accessed on the web(a bit clunky) or with any email program. I now have an email address jonflanders@jflan.net.

I did this mainly to learn. So far, so good. Anybody want a spare email address let me know. Or a few mbs of ftp space.

URL: http://www.edmunds-enterprises.com/linux/index.php
 
I didnt go the cheapest way, but I wanted to do it with someone who would be there tomorrow! The company that hosts my web-page is www.pair.com. Check http://www.pair.com/services/web_hosting/ and also click on "comparing..." on the top-right. I use the basic account. I registered my domain name through their sister company pairnic.com though that is not necessary, the two things are decoupled.
 
I forgot to say that the domain name registration costs me $20 a year or so (you can do cheaper with others) and my basic account with pair.com gives me 400MB space and costs $10 a month. You can read email through the web or set it up to download it to your computer.

very realiable and good support.
 
The company I get my web service from is ICDSoft, Inc.

http://www.icdsoft.com/

It looks like they might have raised their prices - I've had my account for about three years now:

http://www.icdsoft.com/hosting.php

I have the '333 Personal' account and I paid (as I recall) $50 per year - they are now listing at $5 per month or $60 per year. Still a pretty good deal. You can look it over and see all you get with it. Except for the telnet access, it's pretty powerful. That price includes the domain name registration and yearly renewal - so the price is 'all inclusive'.

Now, I have way more than 300 megs of data I want to host online - mostly photos. So what I've been doing lately is this - my web page itself (html and css files) go on my web account, but the 'img src=' tags all point back to my Linux server at my house, where I have unlimited space. Well, half a terabyte, anyway. Nearly unlimited...

You might ask how I do that. It's easy…

I have high-speed cable access through XYZ cable company. They give me a DHCP dynamic IP address. I have a gateway/router box that splits out a sub-domain for all the computers I have at home (I have lots of them). I designated one of them as my 'DMZ passthrough' and that's my Linux web server. I only keep stuff on there that I can live without if it ever gets hacked. It does not allow ftp, telnet, or anything else - it's a stand-alone box except for being the DMZ passthrough.

Then, I have a FREE account on 'no-ip.com' which allows me to put in the IP address that my cable company gives me and turn it into a domain name. In my case, that's mattocks.sytes.net. No charge for this. My cable router is a modern one that lets me automatically (and automagically) update my dynamic IP address to no-ip.com if it ever changes. So, if my cable company issues me a new IP address, the cable router updates no-ip.com.

Finally, my 'img src=' tags on my web pages refer back to the 'mattocks.sytes.net' location - and that in turn routes back to my Linux server at home.

Clever or what? Works like a champ.

You can see for yourself:

www.growlery.com is my 'remote' website, located on the server I rent in Fujian Province, China for $50 per year.

But if you look at this link:

http://www.growlery.com/al-barron/

And examine the source code, you see this:

**** ALIGN=CENTER VALIGN=BOTTOM><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif" size="-2"><A HREF="http://mattocks.sytes.net/SCA/al-barron/al-barran_100.jpg"><IMG SRC="http://mattocks.sytes.net/SCA/al-barron/TN_al-barran_100.JPG" ALT="al-barran_100.jpg"><BR>al-barran_100.jpg</A></FONT>******>

And that's where my photos are actually stored - in the SCA directory of my computer at home. But my webpage presents it all as one document - the end-user never knows that.

Sorry to be so long-winded, but hey - I never get to geek out around here!

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks
 
bill,
you lost me at...The company I get my web service from is ICDSoft, Inc. lol!

man, when i see stuff like this it just shows me how very little i know.

i was having major headaches trying to get some pics on a blog. took me almost 2 days to figure it out.

joe
 
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bill,
you lost me at...The company I get my web service from is ICDSoft, Inc. lol!

man, when i see stuff like this it just shows me how very little i know.

i was having major headaches trying to get some pics on a blog. took me almost 2 days to figure it out.

joe
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Well, I was a computer geek long before I got back into cameras and became a photography geek. It's not that hard, and I'm willing to help if anyone needs it.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks
 
bmattock said:
I have high-speed cable access through XYZ cable company. They give me a DHCP dynamic IP address.
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Do they kick about your using your cable modem for hosting?

I am doing the same thing -- but I have, um, heard that some cable companies exclude that kind of usage from their service agreement. (Cable modem service shares bandwidth among several customers, so I can see how it would hurt other customers' service of one was using his/her modem to, say, stream a porno-cam...)

I also have, er, heard that some cable companies will block port 80 (the standard web-server port) just to make the web-serving hobbyist's life a bit more difficult, so that a person in that position might have to forward those image URLs to another port...
 
I've been with seanic.net for a few years. Cheap and reliable.
 
Jon, never ever post a working E-Mail link on a website!
Your e-mail address will be flodded, soon.

So you allready learned something :)

If you want to publish an address which is usable with most webbrowsers but not so easy for automated harvesting tools, try this small java script:

******** type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript">
<!-- Versteckt die Adresse vor Spammern -->
<!-- Begin
vorne = "your mailbox";
hinten = "your domain";
document.write('Contact: <a href=\"mailto:' + vorne + '@' + hinten + '\">');
document.write( ' info</a>');
// End -->
**********>
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replace "your mailbox" with your name and "your domain" with your domain and keep the double quotes
 
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jlw said:
Do they kick about your using your cable modem for hosting?
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It is against my service agreement to host a web page from my home computer. It is also against my service agreement to have more than one computer hooked up to the internet. For example, I could not have a wireless cable router/gateway that I purchased from Best Buy for $49 spewing wireless highspeed bandwidth all over my house and even out to my garage, and eleventy-dozen computers connecting to it all at the same time. That's for sure. Thank goodness I don't. Hehehe.

I am doing the same thing -- but I have, um, heard that some cable companies exclude that kind of usage from their service agreement. (Cable modem service shares bandwidth among several customers, so I can see how it would hurt other customers' service of one was using his/her modem to, say, stream a porno-cam...)
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My suspicion is that if they see a huge amount of bandwidth disappearing upstream instead of down, they'll track it down and put the ka-bosh on it.

I also have, er, heard that some cable companies will block port 80 (the standard web-server port) just to make the web-serving hobbyist's life a bit more difficult, so that a person in that position might have to forward those image URLs to another port...
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Hasn't happened yet...but I suppose it could.

I have a good situation here. If my cable company decides to be mean to me - the DSL people have been after me for some time...

Anyway, I don't technically host webpages on my home computer. I just have some photos that are redirected from elsewhere. Yes, a little bandwidth, but my pages don't get that many hits. Still, one has to use caution.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks
 
<<Jon, never ever post a working E-Mail link on a website!
Your e-mail address will be flodded, soon.
So you allready learned something :)>>

You are right of course. But I am not that worried about this account. If it starts getting spam I will delete it.

I should mention that I got some allmost free(they once asked for $10 several years ago) space at snow.prohosting.com. Worth checking out if you like the price of free.

example http://snow.prohosting.com/~jeflan/foundry/Foundry_Next_Door.html
 
Thanks for all the responses from you guys (and LRS). Certainly alot to check out. But one thing I know, Bill--- you win Geek of the Week award, hands down!
 
hi,
in my reckoning i think the cost is little too high, i for instance registerd my domain with
http://www.xnynz.com/
which gave me free hosting and other whole array of features
 
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