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What kind of $$$ are you willing to spend? What's your budget?

Jordan turned me on to www.rackshack.net which has some awesome features and funtionallity. And yes, it fully supports FTP account authentications and access rights.

Starting at $100/mo...it might be a little more than what you were hoping for, but maybe you can share the server with another domain and split the costs...

I'm looking for one more person to share the costs then I think I'm jumping on board with these guys...

Anyhow...

:cheers:
 
In the US, I'm not so sure. Der Alta has a good host, but I can't remember what they're called. I use an excellent company called 1&1 Internet who have a datacentre in Germany (connected to four separate internet exchanges) but run an English-language office in London. Not that I've ever spoken to them, I do the whole thing via the web control panel and occasionally e-mail support.

I've been with them for nearly two years now, and I have the site monitored by InternetSeer. I've had about 20 minutes downtime in 2 years, although sometimes the odd request to open the MySQL database fails. I'm looking at a neat way around this though...
 
$100 a month is out of the question. The purpose will be to host a family website (both of you guys have signed my guestbook) which will be totally replaced by the time that domain expires, and which I will use to test out things as I learn more about web development. Eventually I plan to put up a professional website to market myself, and another to exclusively showcase my work. So maybe in the future that kind of money would be justifiable. But for now I was thinking in the $15.00 a month range.
 
Have you checked with your local ISP yet? What do they offer? They might be able to give you an annonomys user ID/Password scheme for yourpersonal web space that might be free with your current internet access account.
 
Yeah. I actually used them at first. It's very limited.

I'm leaning toward a deal for $10.00 a month where you get 200MB of disk space, 200MB file size limit, 10 emails, FTP, etc... there's more but I don't have it in front of me right now. The company is FreeServers. It's the link in my first post.
 
Milefile, that host does not appear to allow any sort of server-side processing of web pages (PHP/ASP etc). It may not be in your plans at the moment, but you could well find that limiting later on.

The more advanced you become as a web designer, the more you shift processing to the server-side.

You could try Ventures Online, which hosts TAFJonathan's Aviation Forum
 
I would rate them as PE Hosting, Catalog.com then iPowerWeb.

Milefile, if you go with the Catalog.com hosting, you'll need to go for the second tier one (Enhanced) as you'll need a database.

They'll ask you whether you want Windows or Unix, I would recommend you use the Unix (MySQL/PHP) stream, rather than the Windows (Access/ASP) stream, because the languages are open source, and there's a lot of help on the web for them. Alternatively of course, the Microsoft ASP development tools are apparently superb, but I have no personal experience of them.

It's interesting that both Catalog.com and PE Hosting are using NetApp Filers as back-end storage. This is not as fast in a high-traffic network as an on-board or Storage-Area Network (eg EMC) environment, but they are great boxes. We nearly put one into our environment when we were looking at centralising 2GB of data.
 
Originally posted by GilesGuthrie
I would rate them as PE Hosting, Catalog.com then iPowerWeb.

Milefile, if you go with the Catalog.com hosting, you'll need to go for the second tier one (Enhanced) as you'll need a database.

They'll ask you whether you want Windows or Unix, I would recommend you use the Unix (MySQL/PHP) stream, rather than the Windows (Access/ASP) stream, because the languages are open source, and there's a lot of help on the web for them. Alternatively of course, the Microsoft ASP development tools are apparently superb, but I have no personal experience of them.

It's interesting that both Catalog.com and PE Hosting are using NetApp Filers as back-end storage. This is not as fast in a high-traffic network as an on-board or Storage-Area Network (eg EMC) environment, but they are great boxes. We nearly put one into our environment when we were looking at centralising 2GB of data.
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Giles. Please see my new thread regarding ASP vs. PHP.
 
Originally posted by milefile
Giles. Please see my new thread regarding ASP vs. PHP.
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I've responded, but I didn't even touch the MySQL vs Access battle. There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that MySQL facilitates easier design of web database applications that are easier to administer and run with higher performance than that which can be obtained with MS Access.
 
Yes, I would say that VenturesOnline is far and away the most respected "shared" hosting provider in the industry. If GTPlanet didn't require a dedicated server with so much bandwidth, I would host the site with them.
 
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- $9.95 a month.
 

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