posted on April 21, 2002 09:54:06 PM new
Who do you use for web site hosting and do you like them.I found there are lots of different hosting sites with lots of different pricing plans.Do you use shopping carts on your site and the merchent accounts or do you send customers to paypal to make payments to you.Thank you for any help you can give me.
posted on April 21, 2002 10:35:54 PM new
How about your local internet access provider. That's always worked for us.
[ edited by outoftheblue on Apr 21, 2002 10:49 PM ]
posted on April 22, 2002 06:21:59 AM new
I just started using a hosting site for all of the comic books that don't sell on eBay - it also gets me off the AW plans for image hosting.
I have always used Microsoft FrontPage for my web development, so that sort of dictated which hosts I would use.
I recently found a software package called StoreFront 5.0 that uses Active Server Pages and either Access or SQL Server as the data base engine. It provides a complete shopping cart function.
I then narrowed down my search to sites that supported both. I went to the StoreFront newsgroup (which is incredibly responsive and informative) and asked around.
Their technical support response has been fantastic and they really understand what it takes to help a "start-up" web site.
I've decided that until business takes off, I'm only going to take PayPal. Depending on how things go, I'll set up a merchant account to process credit cards.
posted on April 22, 2002 06:41:52 AM new
I use https://www.hostica.com for one of my sites. I pay $45.00 a year. It has worked fine without and problems.
For my other website I use a local company that charges $14.95 a month.
There are hundreds and hundreds of web hosting sites. You can go crazy researching them all
posted on April 22, 2002 07:14:16 AM new
geocities.com still has free site hosting. Freeservers.com has one for $5/month. I have used both with success.
You might try the free one (Geocities) first as you figure out your site. That way you are not paying money while it is under development. Then you can transfer the whole thing at once to a pay site.
posted on April 22, 2002 02:50:20 PM new
I use myself for webhosting its basically free and I have nearly 3 gigs of webspace.
go on google and search for Xitami if you have a full time connection like DSL to the internet you can run a webserver on your own computer.
windows linux or unix.
Perl PHP and mysql are all out there for free down load you can run CGI scripts and php with MYsql data base.
http://www.Dman-N-Company.com
Email [email protected]
[ edited by dman3 on Apr 22, 2002 02:53 PM ]
posted on April 22, 2002 04:07:13 PM new
smenkveld, your question is so broad it is an open invitation for any user to plug a specific service. For all we know, you could be a professional forum spammer in conjunction with another forum poster. It would help if your questions were more focused.
