What should I do?
I knew it was too good to be true but I'm young and poor lol so I registered with hostonce and I got screwed cause they really suck. I'm looking for something else but they're all kinda pricey and I live in Canada so anything cheap in the US is still too expensive for me. Anyway, now my friend could host me and all and I could get just like a domain forwarder or whatever OR get a whole new hosting plan with someone else or whatever, what should I do?
Suzanne posted this at 22:20 — 19th May 2002.
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Your ISP will likely have space for you, and may have a domain hosting plan as well. You're looking at about $20 a month for hosting, though. Depends on what you need, too.
A few more details about be good:
1. Do you have a domain name?
2. How much space do you need?
3. What do you need on the server? (perl/php/mysql/mail tools/search engine/et cetera)
4. What's your budget?
5. What is your traffic/bandwidth requirement?
That will help. Perhaps if that is known, someone can help you find a better host.
Also, you might want to explain how hostonce failed you.
Jogy posted this at 23:05 — 19th May 2002.
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ok...explanation:
I got my domain name with my hosting plan...with hostonce. So I don't know if I could get it with another company or whatever, but I'd be willing to change everything to a new domain name to get rid of hostonce.
Space...I don't know. I have videos and such but overall, my sites are kinda tiny in size, and I could always get someone else to host the videos or something.
As for all that fancy mumbo jumbo, I can barely make my own CGI thingy guestbook, I really don't need the PHP, mysql, etc stuff or emails and such.
My budget: Is the only thing holding me back lol I have a tiny job and my mum pays for my domain and she really doesn't wanna hear about anything too expensive. Hostonce was cheap, that's the only reason why I got a domain, really.
Bandwidth: blah, right now, I'm hosting my friend's videos and they're taking some space and stuff. 913.10 MB up to now for the month of May, a lot?
I have all my sites, plus my friend's videos that take 80 MB or more plus some others for my sites and I'm only using like 190 MB in space...it really wouldn't take me that much space, 500 MB? I have no clue about how to deal with stuff like this lol
Hostonce deleted everything I had on my server. It won't let me log in half the time and when I can, it's really slow. I know it's cheap and all but I didn't even have that much trouble with geocities and it's free.
Busy posted this at 05:03 — 20th May 2002.
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