[CALUG] need some web advice

[Bonnie Dalzell]

On Thu, 14 Mar 2013, mhartwx wrote:

> I took over webmastering for my non-profit bird-owners club last year &
> have run into a problem because our free web host (directNIC) isn't free
> since the beginning of this month.  I found another free host but wasn't
> able to open an account using our existing domain (though I followed
> their on-line instructions).  Since it's all free there's no tech
> support & I can't figure out what's wrong.

well the low end directnic account is only $4.95 a month and you might be 
able to fund it by getting members of your club who need websites to 
pay a $1 month to have a subdomain. It is a pretty good price for the 
service

5GB of hosting space  with up to 50 subdomains for the $5 a month is 
pretty good.

I have used directnic for years as my domain register and I like the fact 
that I can phone them and talk to a real person about any problems i might 
have.

Free hosting services often give you the sort of support you might 
expect for "free".

Currently I host with QWK.net at 269 a year for 7.5GB of web space.

Qwk.net has a $50 a year package but it only has 200 MB of disk space 
available.

what you do since your directnic domain name is already paid for is to go 
to the other hosting company and register a different domain name and then 
go to the directnic domain manager and do a pointing of your existing 
domain name to the new domain name. You then go into the domain manager 
and select the change hosting option icon and then change hosting 
type and then choose the option redirected.

If you want to move the registration of your domain name to a 
different registrar then there is sometimes a penalty fee 
depending on the registrar.

However for $4.95 a month my preference would be to stick with direct.nic.

They are in New Orelans and provided internet support during the 
hurricane Katrina disaster which is one of the reasons I have kept with 
them.

>
> I'm beginning to think the answer is to find a cheap hosting company
> instead since they have an incentive to help me get our domain working
> on their servers.  Since I'm likely to have to pay for all this myself,
> any suggestions as to a good host at the lowest possible cost?  I want a
> host with FTP capability so we can keep our existing pages.  I see
> GoDaddy is having a sale where I can sign up for 1-3 years for 2.99 (a
> month) instead of the 4.99 most other places charge. Are they any good?
>
> Our website is simple - just html pages & linked pdfs.
>
>     mlh
>
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