[WEB4LIB] web hosting services question

[Thomas M G Bennett]

I like gemstream ( http://www.gemstream.com ) I maintain a couple of sites
there and am very pleased with the service, pricing, management, and speed.
I tried three free service providers before going with gemstream.  The main
problem with free providers was slow serving of web pages and bad ftp
connections for updating pages.  I use Dreamweaver and its built in site
support features which allow me to copy files to gemstream just like copying
files in Windows Explorer.  Pricing starts out for under $10.00 a month with
25 email accounts, FrontPage Extensions, Web-Based Email, 40 mb disk space,
static IP, site statistics, and more.  Lots of CGI support like Perl, C, SH,
Java, and Python scripting.  The next price level up includes MySQL and more
email accounts and email lists.  You can even buy a Reseller Package and
sell domains yourself at your own pricing.

  The working site I have now is http://www.wgc-idpa.org (International
Defensive Pistol Association) and a site that will have valid pages soon is
http://www.bennettbooks.net (North Carolina County Records my father has
compiled into books as a North Carolina Genealogist, .net was the only
domain available for bennettbooks :-) ).

They will even process the domain name registration for you at $50.00 for
the first two years and $25.00 each year there after.

Thomas


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-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org]On Behalf Of NJ Keane
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 10:05 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] web hosting services question


I am contemplating moving some of my web pages off my library server and
hosting them elsewhere.  The pages have been on my school's web server for
almost 6 years and there is no pressure to move them so that isn't an
issue.  It's just that the school system is becoming more and more unstable
(it's been down most of the week) and I just think it's time to take my
non-school pages to another level.

I currently use mediaone as my home isp.  They only allow 10 mb of web
space and I need about 20 mb.  I would like to register my own domain name
and then host my pages somewhere.  I've found some free and low cost sites
that will host pages up to 25 mb and allow ftp and cgi.  The trouble is, I
don't really know anything about these sites.  I don't want to move my
webpages and then realize I made a big mistake.

Do any of you have words of wisdom about this?  Should I stay with mediaone
and pay for more space or should I move to a web hosting service?  Does
anyone have a great web hosting site (free or inexpensive) that they would
recommend?

Thanks for your help.

Nancy

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