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| 9/27/01
| Daniel J. Phillips (BibChr)
Posted on 09/27/2001 8:57:52 AM PDT by BibChr
Forgive me, in three years this is my vainest vanity by far.
First, the bottom-line; then, the pointless exposition.
The bottom-line is that I need input from you geniuses about:
- The best FREE host to which I can move the Biblical Christianity web page
- How to bounce people over there from a now-defunct address
- How to manage the simplest address for the site
- How to get the search-engine listings corrected
- Suggestions for a new, cheap or free ISP
- Anything else you think I should know (on this subject, that is)
Now, the pointless exposition. Creating, putting up and ftp-ing my web page was one of the nastiest headaches I'd ever had. First it was on Geocities, with the slow loading and the eighty-seven character URL. Then we went over to jps.net, which was a nice short URL -- and which has been taken over by another company which was taken over by EarthLink, who is too expensive and too complicated, and which we plan to LEAVE.
So I evidently let the deadline slide (gee, I've never done THAT before), and I need to do something ASAP. And I know we have a repository of solid-gold, simmering IT genius here.
And I hope three years of restraint have earned me one self-indulgent vanity.
Thanks in advance.
Dan
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posted on
09/27/2001 8:57:52 AM PDT
by
BibChr
(filops@yahoo.com)
To: BibChr
The days of free web space are all but over. I've been getting email from Homestead lately saying that if I don't upgrade my service (for a fee) I'll be kicked off. Geocities has always sucked and now, they too, are getting strict with page views. A local server would be best, but costly.
Hope someone can help you out.
To: BibChr
So it sounds like you're willing to give your all to "the cause"--as long as it doesn't personally cost you anything.
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posted on
09/27/2001 9:11:28 AM PDT
by
Illbay
To: BibChr
Forget free hosting.
As far as I know, you won't be able to re-direct people to your new URL, unless you keep the old host and re-direct to your new URL. You might want to keep your old host for a month or two for this purpose.
Buy a domain name. If you run into problems with your new host, you can move the domain to a new host. That way you won't be in the same fix that you find yourself in now.
Re-submit your site to the search engines, after you move to a new host. More and more search engines will not index a site on a free server. A lot of them are purging their indexes of free hosted sites anyway.
I've heard good things about www.5dollarhosting.com. I don't have any experience with them. Buyer beware.
Managing your site is usually easily done with FTP software on a pay host. FTP software can be found for free on the web.
Good Luck.
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posted on
09/27/2001 9:22:01 AM PDT
by
Strider
To: BibChr
www.pair.com is cheap and VERY well run. From $5.95 per month.
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posted on
09/27/2001 9:44:19 AM PDT
by
ikka
To: Strider
Thanks. I thought there was some sort of name-forwarding service, but my memory is vague on it.
Dan
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posted on
09/27/2001 10:04:54 AM PDT
by
BibChr
To: ikka
Thanks. You're speaking from personal experience... or ownership? (c8
Dan
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posted on
09/27/2001 10:05:28 AM PDT
by
BibChr
To: BibChr
www.homewithgod.com 50 meg free space
8
posted on
09/27/2001 10:07:14 AM PDT
by
tutstar
To: tutstar
Thanks, I'll check it out. Have you used it?
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posted on
09/27/2001 10:12:08 AM PDT
by
BibChr
To: BibChr
Thanks. I thought there was some sort of name-forwarding service, but my memory is vague on it. There are services that will give you a shorter URL, if you are on a free host, but that won't help you. They just re-direct from the shorter URL to your actual URL
The URL you are on now is owned by the hosting service. I doubt that they will be willing to re-direct your traffic to another host, if you aren't staying with them.
If you have your own domain, you are in control, otherwise, you are at the mercy of others.
P.S. Take a look at Pair.com, as recommended by a previous poster, I have read good things about them.
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posted on
09/27/2001 10:13:19 AM PDT
by
Strider
To: BibChr
Dan,
Some options:
1. Buy your own domain name.
2. Try www.webseed.com - it's not a free hosting service but an information portal. You apply and if approved, they register your domain name. Everything is there for you to use their templates to set up your site. The catch is that you have to follow their format. But you can control most of that and you can also control the advertising.
I have two sites there:
Brother vs. Brother: The American Civil War
The Outer Banks of North Carolina Still in development.
3. Try www.suite101.com - similar in nature to Webseed, but there is much more of a Suite101.com presence than you would have at Webseed. I have one Suite101.com site (their limit)
Fatherhood
See how I can shamelessly promote my own stuff while offering you advice? Best of luck.
To: BibChr
As far as minimizing headaches for us non-IT types...I've always used FrontPage to make the individual html files and a simple FTP shareware program to move 'em over. (I use the FrontPage Editor only, not the Explorer with all its bells and whistles.) The editors on the free sites have always been klunky and slow in comparison.
12
posted on
09/27/2001 10:17:23 AM PDT
by
Taliesan
To: mike2right
Your fatherhood link doesn't work.
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posted on
09/27/2001 10:18:53 AM PDT
by
Taliesan
To: Illbay
He's already paid for salvation in repentence . Now as far as him not having the cash to get a paid service, well it happens.
Anyways . Dan don't go to Angelfire, it's slow as Ted Kennedys bowels and smells just as bad .
Cheese .
To: Taliesan
Your fatherhood link doesn't work. It's there. I must've screwed up the HTML. Try now:
Fatherhood
To: BibChr
My dh and I both signed up for space. He uploaded a geneaology program which is about 30meg. The only thing is the geno program has a frame on the left which you can't see because of the HWG frame which is on the left. He hasn't had time to contact them about how to work around that. I haven't uploaded anything there yet myself though.
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posted on
09/27/2001 10:24:54 AM PDT
by
tutstar
To: BibChr
I don't own pair.com, but have had good success with them. I run www.zill.net, which is pricier for what you want (I focus on db-backed pages, etc.).
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posted on
09/27/2001 12:01:54 PM PDT
by
ikka
To: mike2right
See how I can shamelessly promote my own stuff while offering you advice? Pretty smoooth. Thanks!
Is webseed free, then, if they approve you?
Dan
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posted on
09/27/2001 1:38:06 PM PDT
by
BibChr
To: BibChr
Is webseed free, then, if they approve you? Actually, they're in it to make money with you. You get a percentage of advertising revenues.
To: mike2right
That's a pauser. Hmmm....
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posted on
09/27/2001 4:47:15 PM PDT
by
BibChr
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