Web Hosting

[Hi Ho]

What are some good, cheap web hosting services that will allow me to use my own domain name. Also, where can I purchase a domain name?

[DrZaius]

I've had good luck with Ripple Host for cheap hosting plans. And I've registered all of my domains with GoDaddy without any problems.

[Hi Ho]

Tanks for the suggestions. I have Frontpage as part of Office XP and I also have access to Dreamweaver. Would I be able to use either of those with Ripple Host? Also, how do Canaca and PowWeb look and can I use Dreamweaver with them?

[DrZaius]

The best place to check is the WebHostingTalk Forums. Just do a search for a specific company and you should find some comments on their services. And yes, Ripple Host supports FrontPage extensions if you wish to use those.

[LiVeWiRe]

May I recommend Total Choice Hosting? Another member here recommended them and I have not been disappointed at all!

I registered my domain names with GoDaddy and have hosting with TCH. They have a TCH Family Forum where you can posts pre-sales questions, etc. and have them answered by the TCH staff and/or other family members.

TCH does support DreamWeaver & FrontPage extensions to answer the question in your previous post. If you have any additional questions, I'll answer them as best I can...

-LW

[kram 2.0]

Here's a walk through on some of the things you need for a webpage/FTP/servers and such: http://forum.pcmech.com/showthread.php?t=101452

I like Powweb a lot - it's a complete package, and I hear is a very nice deal with good bandwidth, cheap, and good support. I have friends on that server - they used to have WCIII.com, until they stopped paying for it...yes, they had their own Warcraft III server .

Just a quick question - does Dreamweaver boast an integrated FTP function - in other words, does it do it for you at a click of a button? Or do you need to use something like a standalone FTP product? If standalone, any server would do. I know that FrontPage has a built-in FTP, and servers will specifically mention whether they support it or not. Powweb has Frontpage support.


Hope that helps,
kram

[mairving]

Originally Posted by kram8806 Just a quick question - does Dreamweaver boast an integrated FTP function - in other words, does it do it for you at a click of a button? Or do you need to use something like a standalone FTP product? If standalone, any server would do. I know that FrontPage has a built-in FTP, and servers will specifically mention whether they support it or not. Powweb has Frontpage support.

Apache running on 'nix based servers uses Frontpage Extensions. Which are basically a way to overly complicate, reduce security and add quite a few MB's to your hosting plan. DW and other MM products have FTP support built-in where you can edit pages on a website. It doesn't require any kind of extensions or extra code. Basically you just save the file on the site and are done. I personally think that it is a bad idea to code on live site. It is better practice to code on a local server, work out all of the bugs and then upload. With plain HTML, this is not a huge issue unless you get a table out of wack and the page displays funny. But if you are doing some extensive programming with PHP or the like, it is very bad practice to code live.

[kram 2.0]

I agree with mairving - although I've never coded live, I would never do it as I sometimes use PHP and MySQL databasing and such.

kram