General Advice for Designer - We're not computer newbies (Posted by doren)

doren posted this at 23:28 — 24th October 1999.

Joined: Sep 1999

First, this place is great, thanks.

Me and my girlbuddie recently graduated from college. We are starting a webdesign business. We tried using best.com as a host/provider. My girlbuddy was driven nuts trying to set up our email account. She was also unable to use them to access the internet.

We are both Macheads but we both have some NT exposure as well. I have 3 years of computer graphic experience and she has about 2.

We've decided to try dreamhost because of you folks.

We will need to help our clients through this hosting, conection, emil, maze also. Can anyone offer any other advice?

CWebNetCo posted this at 16:02 — 25th October 1999.

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Joined: Apr 1999

Hello,

So you would like to have an NT Hosting?

Did you signup with DreamHost? How did you like them?

Let me know and I will be glad to help you to meet your needs.

Cheers,

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doren posted this at 20:27 — 25th October 1999.

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Joined: Sep 1999

Thank you so much for the offer, I shall.

We have not as yet signed up. Monday we will attempt to connect from my computer as I am more geeky. If we fail we will sign on with dreamhost.

I was under the impression that UNIX servers were faster and more stable than NT. What are the advantages to NT? We want to do some streaming eventually but that's aways off.

JP Stones posted this at 20:46 — 25th October 1999.

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UNIX is indeed more stable and has a higher uptime. Advantages of NT are few and far between really, close intehration with the Windows Interface, support for FP...
JP

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