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So I imagine I'll be needing to purchase some website space soon. Anyone know of a good host that isn't too expensive?
Things I plan on coding soon: My band at school's website My band at home's website (We have one now, but I'll either tweak what already exists, or revamp it completely). A work website for my mother, who is a real estate agent.
I don't know that much about website space/hosting, so any tips/insights you guys have would be greatly appreciated. For example, if I'm creating website for someone as a job, am I expected to pay for the hosting space, or are they.
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If your traffic is relatively light (a few hundre hits a day), Dreamhost seems to be a pretty solid choice. For $8 you get 120 gb bandwidth and 2400 mb storage.
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Get an old apple computer, install mac os 10, get a DSL connection (or other high speed, this you might already have) for $30 a month and make your own webserver. Its actually really easy. I've set up a web/MUD server for $0. My parents pay for the DSL becuase they want the high speed net. You can get a dynamic ip domain alias at http://www.no-ip.com for free. It comes with an automatic updater client avalible for mac. Macs, since they're unix based, make excellent webservers, and it really doesn't take too much power. The computer I run my page and server from is a 4 or 5 year old iMac rev D with a 333 mHz G3 processor and 512 MB of RAM. Piece of cake really.
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I would imagine that your band at school's website would be an offshoot of whatever domain your school currently use for their main website. In our area, most schools are given free domain space by the state on the state's servers...
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Alcon's suggestion is a really bad one for several reasons.
1) it just plain costs more than paying for a few years of hosting.
2) you're your own tech support and maintenance. Do you do daily backups? A hosting place does.
3) power outage? Downtime. DSL acting up? Downtime. If you're not getting 3 or 4 9's (That is, 99.9% or 99.99%) uptime, it hurts your return rate significantly among casual visitors.
4) computer has problems? You're out the cost of whatever you need to do to replace it. Host's computer has problems? You get transferred to a working computer unless its fixed immediately.
Other people so far have been right; if you can at all, get someone else to deal with the hosting. In the case of school related stuff, that's the school. In the case of your Mom's business, that's her business. Even if you arrange the hosting for your Mom's business to some degree, it should be on a host with good uptime, as that will be important to her business's image and traffic.
For that, you might consider taking a look at 1and1's business pro package. They're giving out six months free (no commitment, I do believe) right now, and they're one of the biggest hosts on the net. http://1and1.com . I'd grab one yourself for experimentation if they're no commitment, then just let it drop after the 6 months.
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Along with Fugu, I'd suggest either 1and1 or http://e-rice.net both have great packages, great service, good uptime, and are quite inexpensive. Satyagraha
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