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Hi all,
Many of you know me from the Xara X forums. I do a little website of my own called RAMWolffsWorld.com, I like it and I think I'm slowly outgrowing it. I currently belong to Earthlink. I love their service and have been a loyal customer for years now but their upgrade plan for enlarging ones webspace is really out of the ball park. I currently have what they call a "Starter Site" at $19.95 a month. 200 Mb's is all you get. The usual Control Panel software with all the usual log on, maintenance tools and other stuff, pretty good customer and technical support but if you want more web space it's a WHOPPING $4.95 per 5Mb's of web space. http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/eek.gif That's just nutso!! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/mad.gif So today I am researching other Webhosting companies.
What I am looking for is a RELIABLE, STABLE and ESTABLISHED company that's not going to fold a year from now. I know Earthlink is all that but the prices are just rediculously high for what they offer and for what's out there.
So in my research I found Lunarpages.com and I was wondering if any of you good folks use their services and what you think of it. If you have any other webhosting solutions you would like me to look at then please post the link and give me a synopsis of what you think of their service and why I should consider it.
I was also thinking "How the hell am I going to transfer all this info from one webhosting service to another??". Any ideas there?? I've got over 100 Mb's worth of data on Earthlinks server and would really love it if there was a simple solution. Like could I use my FTP client (WS-FTP95LE) to some how transfer is from one server to another?? Probably not but I thought I'd ask! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif
Thanks much!! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif
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Hi all,
Many of you know me from the Xara X forums. I do a little website of my own called RAMWolffsWorld.com, I like it and I think I'm slowly outgrowing it. I currently belong to Earthlink. I love their service and have been a loyal customer for years now but their upgrade plan for enlarging ones webspace is really out of the ball park. I currently have what they call a "Starter Site" at $19.95 a month. 200 Mb's is all you get. The usual Control Panel software with all the usual log on, maintenance tools and other stuff, pretty good customer and technical support but if you want more web space it's a WHOPPING $4.95 per 5Mb's of web space. http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/eek.gif That's just nutso!! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/mad.gif So today I am researching other Webhosting companies.
What I am looking for is a RELIABLE, STABLE and ESTABLISHED company that's not going to fold a year from now. I know Earthlink is all that but the prices are just rediculously high for what they offer and for what's out there.
So in my research I found Lunarpages.com and I was wondering if any of you good folks use their services and what you think of it. If you have any other webhosting solutions you would like me to look at then please post the link and give me a synopsis of what you think of their service and why I should consider it.
I was also thinking "How the hell am I going to transfer all this info from one webhosting service to another??". Any ideas there?? I've got over 100 Mb's worth of data on Earthlinks server and would really love it if there was a simple solution. Like could I use my FTP client (WS-FTP95LE) to some how transfer is from one server to another?? Probably not but I thought I'd ask! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif
Thanks much!! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif
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Richard,
I have been using aplushosting.com for my ristoklint.com site (Since 2001), and they have been rock solid. The're tech support is really, really quick at getting back to you... (Or have been at least... I haven't had a need for them in a long time.)
They're Basic I package (for US $9.95) includes:
- 20GBs of data transfer
- 500MBs of space
- 50 email addresses
- FrontPage Extensions
- Domain for $14.95
- Web Email and Control Panel
- Up to 2 months FREE*
You can read the full details on their website - it's quite extensive. Do note that MySQL and PHP only comes with the "higher-end" accounts (still cheap...)
They're control panel is the best! And their stats are super. I can have you look at mine... I'll can even give you my FRP password so you can check upload speeds.
Here is the most important tip you will ever receive - NEVER, EVER register your domain name through your hosting company - if you ever decide to move on, they will/could make it very painfull for you! Spend the extra buck with a real domain reg company for the piece of mind, knowing that you really have full controll over it.
Recomending a hosting company is always difficult - because when you do... Ah! Well...
These guys are "slightly" bigger than blackhills.com - They deliver 49 terabytes of data per month!... http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif
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WHAT?? You haven't even looked at my site after all these long months of bantering back and forth?? For shame John, for shame!!! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif
I KNEW you would find me over here!! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif
To be honest I really don't know where to look in the Control Center for how much bandwidth I am using per month. If you have any ideas what I should look for I will report back here. My site is pretty straight forward. Just HTML with some style sheets is all.
Lunarpages is offering for $7.95 a month 800 Mb's web space and 40 Gb's of bandwidth per month. They have forums and pretty good customer support. $30.00 set up fee or no set up if you sign on for a year. Toll free support and their Control Panel is chocked full of tools. They support SQL Database, Front Page extentions, Dreamweaver Compatible, POP3, SMTP and IMAP, Unlimited EMail Accounts and Forwarding, Web Mail, PHP, Python and Perl, ASP, JSP and Servlets available, Add-On Domains available, 3 Parked Domains and 15 Sub Domains allowed with this package. FTP account and SSI - Server Side Inludes, Online User Statistice and they use High-End Servers (We use Dellâ„¢ PowerEdge 2650 servers. Equipped with dual Xeon 2.8Ghz processors and 4GB memory to ensure maximum performance for our customers.)
So I think I may be going with them after all. I was just hoping someone here at TG was using their services.
I will take a lookie see at blackhill.com thouugh. I appreciate you taking the time to help me out! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif
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Richard,
Do check for user reviews on lunarpages.com... before signing up with them. You can also search on Google for the classic hostingcompanyname sucks and hostingcompanyname suck... http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif It's not a "tell-all" but it might give you some ideas...
Here's one I found on lunarpages:
http://www.diagnose-me.com/sucks/lunarpages.html
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Well that was a damned scary little page!! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/eek.gif but it was about the only one I found on the company. I did however find alot of other kind of sucking in the google search!! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif Actually that was kinda scary too and I'm pretty kinky myself!! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif
I trust your judgement and the words from the man that put that page up "if it's too good to be true it probably is"! Oh well!! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/frown.gif Maybe they will get it together and improve that. I'm tempted to post that link on the forums and see how long it takes for it to get taken down but then again they do have my email address and I don't want any more viruses sent to me and you never know how aweful folks can be, we all have our dark sides and some of those dark sides are down right evil!! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/eek.gif http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/eek.gif
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Ah, no, the site is not big at all. There are other files and what not I store there. I actually deleated some older ones (like the old DrawPlus Trial which has been released and patched 7 times so far, so I think it's safe to say the trial is invalid at this point http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif ) and ended up freeing up around 50 Mb's more. So I'm safe again for a while. I was just pissed that Earthlink charges so much for a little more space. $4.95 for 5 meesily Mb's more is just a rip off!! So I guess I will be considering the A+ Hosting gig when time frees up again.
Thanks for all your help and suggestions! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif
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No, I am sharing and many of the files are one's that I have linked all over the web. From art works to avatars. There are zips files as well that I share with goodies for other programs as well as Xara X! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif
No, I need the space and I want the space, I don't like being stressed out when my space limit gets close to being full up!!
I do have a removable drive & a DVD burner as well as a CDRW too!! I'm all set with backup's, this is a whole different cookie I'm talking about!
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I was just about to buy Netobjectsfusion 7,5 when I discovered 1 and 1 who offer the software free of charge as part of their business web hosting package. The service is excellent and superb value for money.
Their URL is
http://order.1and1.co.uk/xml/order;j...EC70851D.TC30b
Regards
David Scott
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Hi John,
I hope you were kidding with that assumption. I do NOT traffic warez nor do I have porn on the www, at least none that I know of??
In any case if blackhills.com would nose into my personal business, regardless of what it is, then I would have nothing to do with them anyway.
My money, my space, doing my thing, my business!! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif
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Thanks David,
Good link but that looks a bit TOO good to be true.
Plus the currency is all in pounds and I don't know the conversion! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif
The free software is a really nice bonus if you order the professional web space. Unheard of deal there!! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/eek.gif
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Wolf
I was being quoted the equivilent of $272 ( American Dollars) to purchase NETOBJECTSFUSION 7,5
I bought the Business Package on OneandOne where my bill for the year for 1500MB of web space is $216 with NOF free of charge
As you say an excellent buy and good value with a whole host of other goodies thrown in ( Most of which I don't know how to use yet)
Regards
David Scott
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Wolf
It looks as if the deal is even better stateside
http://order.1and1.com/xml/order/Hos...b?__frame=_top
Regards
David Scott
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Well, here I sit, nothing to do. My client, pregnant and home with the flu, could'nt make it (but she did leave an envelope at the front door with $100.00 cash in it for the missed appointment http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif ) so I decided to spend the next few hours devoting time to looking through the pages and pages of info over @ 1&1 and I'm pretty impressed so far. The only thing I did find, on the WWW about whether they 'suck' or not is that there were some complaints about email being in the wrong language, Control Panel very slow and they serve only US and Canada and I'm not at all sure about what that means exactly. If I set up an account there does that mean I am limiting myself to only customers/views from the US and Canada or does it mean that their business is only available in the US and Canada and not any where else in the World. I read that there was a branch in Europe. So I need to contact them and I might just copy/paste this post into the email and let them mull it over and see what they write back, if they write back.
I've been with Earthlink for 2 years now hosting (ISP/Email for 4 1/2) and I'm pretty satisfied but if I can get more bang for my buck and for less money, hell yea I want to check things out but I'm no hurry!!
So if you have anymore info David, please post it so I can consider that into the decision process!
UPDATE I wrote them and hopefully they will write me back. I also invited them to join in here as long as there were no blatant sales pitches. So maybe they will join in and answer questions right here. I linked them up so they will have no problem finding us! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif
Many thanks! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif
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I am looking for some where to host my site but I want .ws or .as I am from Samoa
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Hey Wolf
Iand 1 are now offering netobjectsfusion8 upgrade for $88.
What a deal
http://service.rhiem.com/websitepros...ex.asp?Lang=UK
Regards
David Scott
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Hey Ram,
Did you find a solution?
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Hi Richard,
I switched to 1and1.com and have been totally satisfied with their service. Yes, their software deal does sound too good to be true, but low and behold the software package does arrive in your mailbox shortly after you sign up. The service is solid,the control panel works well, and the cost is very reasonable.
I have no complaints.
Also I just transfered another domain to 1and1.com and the cost was only $5.95! Not bad!
So I recommend 1and1.com without reservation.
Note also that new subscribers get the new version of NetObjects Fusion ver. 8 Free!
Hope this helps, Andrew www.shapesandcolors.com
