Posted on 10/20/2014 1:12:15 PM PDT by Monterrosa-24
FRiends, I need to tap Freeper expertise. My little business needs a web site and I was wondering what my FR comrades thought of godaddy.com, domain.com, wikihow.com, namecheap.com and any other web-hosting sites that folks may have experienced.
I have a storefront coffee and chocolate shop and I'm thinking of adding shipping to our gift basket offers. Our business is very new and small but we have some great lines of Belgium chocolate and value-packed gift baskets with teas, coffees, chocolates, and premium cookies.
But usually your DNS can be arbitrated by your hosting provider.
I do not recommend godaddy. Personally, I’ve had issues with them. I would have recommended HostGator (one of the largest), but their quality had gone down and they’ve had major outages in the past year. I currently use knownhost.com and have had no problems. Tech support has a fairly quick turnaround. I hope you find something that works well for you.
Make sure you purchase the domain name so it can move with you to another host if you have to.
Oh, and for domain registration, I’m happy with both NameCheap and Dotster. I definitely recommend them.
Hmmm local provider in Phenix City, Alabama...hhmmmm...that narrows it down.
There is good cheap hosting out there.
As for registering a domain name I use Godaddy. I would never use their hosting services though.
I use Dreamhost to host my domain.
Bumping for later.
I’m looking around for a hosting service as well. Back in the day...WAY back - W95 or before...I had several websites. Eventually partnered with a friend and got and EXPENSIVE service. After maybe ten years and watching my community oriented website grow to nearly a hundred pages it became too much. Took way too much time.
One of the things I warn friends about is some think they can set up a website and watch the cash roll in.
IT TAKES A LOT OF TIME AND MAINTENANCE!
Meanwhile mrs p6 started a high school reunion band website on Homestead back around 2000 and it was fine. Still up and running but the band has moved on.
Now I’m thinking about a local weather/webcam archiving website and so far have found NOTHING I like.
MEANWHILE >>>>>Monterrosa...when you do get your website up FReepmail me. >great lines of Belgium chocolate and value-packed gift baskets with teas, coffees, chocolates, and premium cookies.
That sounds GREAT! Would love to try!
I’ve been using Hypermart for years. Started out being $5 or so a month, now it’s $15 or so a month. I made my own (very simple) website, and it’s worked just fine for years.
I used Blue Host in the past, was happy with it at the time.
http://www.bluehost.com/?gclid=CPzH3M6MvMECFaZj7Aodb0gA0A
I used Ipower for years. No complaints. And that is really what it’s all about. It works. It’s never down. I programmed my own site, so any mistakes were mine.
Talking about where to put a storefront, check out bigcommerce.com
Bigcommerce.com is great, but their entry level plan charges a 1.5% transaction fee.
I would tend to agree. However there are some great shopping carts out there that you can install and for payments point them to paypal.
Personally I would avoid godaddy.com just because of their perverted ads.
I have installed plenty of them and customized the heck out of them, but for a business with a few items to sell, a low-cost hosted service makes more sense. Monterrosa-24 would do well to focus on running his store, not worry about coding and security and all the responsibilities which come with hosting your own eCommerce site. Volusion sites start at $15 a month, a little more than ordinary web hosting.
Wix.com is pretty simple and good for beginners.
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