+Sioneva Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 (Wow, my second topic in a night, I think that's a record.) I've been poking around online, trying to find a good webhosting company to start up a new geocaching website... Just wondering what people with previous experience here would recommend for that... and why. PMs are fine, and moving the topic if it belongs elsewhere, please go ahead. Quote Link to comment
+Okiebryan Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 If you are not terribly knowledgeable on building and hosting (like me), try googlepages. Their WYSIWYG editor is simple beyond simple, and you get a web address like this: http://adabikerun.googlepages.com That is the site i set up in LITERALLY 30 minutes last month. Free, no ads, super easy. Always up and running. Quote Link to comment
+Sioneva Posted March 8, 2008 Author Share Posted March 8, 2008 If you are not terribly knowledgeable on building and hosting (like me), try googlepages. Their WYSIWYG editor is simple beyond simple, and you get a web address like this: http://adabikerun.googlepages.com That is the site i set up in LITERALLY 30 minutes last month. Free, no ads, super easy. Always up and running. But what if you are? I'll check out the link - thanks! Quote Link to comment
+Fratt Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 What all are you looking to do on this site??? Quote Link to comment
+Sioneva Posted March 8, 2008 Author Share Posted March 8, 2008 What all are you looking to do on this site??? Forums, newsletter, membership list, calendar of events... those are just the tip of the iceberg, I think. Quote Link to comment
+robert Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 For the Maryland and Northern Virginia club websites, as well as my own personal website, I've used Total Choice Hosting. Very good track record of uptime, their support is quick (for those times you need it) and pricing is very reasonable. Quote Link to comment
+Vinny & Sue Team Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 For the Maryland and Northern Virginia club websites, as well as my own personal website, I've used Total Choice Hosting. Very good track record of uptime, their support is quick (for those times you need it) and pricing is very reasonable. I would suggest that you consider Robert's suggestion most strongly, and that you discount the suggestions of services such as googlepages (for several reasons, including the fact that you do not really have your own domain name, plus other reasons to be shared below...) and also any suggestions to use the cheapie $5 per month hosting sites. Nothing wrong with the latter (i.e, $5 per month hosting services), and I often use such services myself for my own websites, but such hosting services would likely not be useful for hosting a more complex site such as that which you suggest, as these $5 per month hosting services are virtual server services, and they often offer very limited support of forum software such as PHP, of server-side Java script and other scripts, and of specialized server-mediated or server-stored software apps (such as membership registration, password checking, scrolling displays on pages, galleries) tools and etc., and thus they are best suited for sites which offer primarily conventional text on a conventional html page plus photos. Have fun with your new site! BTW, for a mere $9,999.99 per year, I can license you to emplace a small seal of approval on the home page of your new website stating This Site Approved and Recommended by Vinny. And, for a mere additional $49,444.33 per year, you may even be licensed to emplace a small devotional photo of my likeness on your site. Quote Link to comment
+robert Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 With the host I suggested, $4-5/month is plenty space and bandwidth for you to start out. If you start with the $4 plan you can up it. Those have worked quite well for us. Quote Link to comment
+TheAlabamaRambler Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 You can get free or low-cost web hosting at thousands of ISPs... hosting the website isn't the problem. Most of those hosts also offer a simple web editor to create basic pages that work fine for most people. The problem comes when you need quality support and operation of forums and such. I use http://www.hostican.com/ to host http://www.w4aga.com and use http://www.vbulletin.com/ forum software. My website homepage is simplicity itself; the forums are quite a bit more complicated. Quote Link to comment
+Sioneva Posted March 8, 2008 Author Share Posted March 8, 2008 For the Maryland and Northern Virginia club websites, as well as my own personal website, I've used Total Choice Hosting. Very good track record of uptime, their support is quick (for those times you need it) and pricing is very reasonable. <snip> Have fun with your new site! BTW, for a mere $9,999.99 per year, I can license you to emplace a small seal of approval on the home page of your new website stating This Site Approved and Recommended by Vinny. And, for a mere additional $49,444.33 per year, you may even be licensed to emplace a small devotional photo of my likeness on your site. Thanks, both Robert and Vinny! I'll check into this site, it looks good. P.S. Vinny, you know you have my undying love, gratitude, and keys to my safety deposit box, if I had one... will you accept payment in Monopoly or Life dollars? Quote Link to comment
+Sioneva Posted March 9, 2008 Author Share Posted March 9, 2008 You can get free or low-cost web hosting at thousands of ISPs... hosting the website isn't the problem. Most of those hosts also offer a simple web editor to create basic pages that work fine for most people. The problem comes when you need quality support and operation of forums and such. I use http://www.hostican.com/ to host http://www.w4aga.com and use http://www.vbulletin.com/ forum software. My website homepage is simplicity itself; the forums are quite a bit more complicated. Checking into these as well - particularly the forum software! Thanks! Quote Link to comment
+carleenp Posted March 9, 2008 Share Posted March 9, 2008 I use Blue Host for my sites and have been very happy with them. The cost is fine, uptime is good, customer support is excellent. They also provide easy installation of a number of programs for site development such as Wordpress, Drupal, shopping cart programs, various forum software etc. If you decide to use them and haven't registered your domian yet, do it through them. You usually get a free domain and then discounts on future ones, and they don't charge for private registration if you desire it. I imagine other hosting sites may offer similar specials. I have heard some bad things about siteground from members of a few networks that I am in. So that might be one to avoid. Quote Link to comment
+9Key Posted March 9, 2008 Share Posted March 9, 2008 The Texas Geocaching Association site and forums are hosted on DiscountASP.Net. We use a mix of classic ASP and .Net and the forums are in SQL server. They're not the cheapest host around but their uptime and support are the best I've ever encountered. Quote Link to comment
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