I did some digging , turns out I DID authorize godaddy to draw for my
domain name . Haven't used it lately , don't even have a host right now . I
forgot I even have that domain ... I guess I oughta build a page . Know any
free hosting sites ?
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On Saturday, May 24, 2014 8:32:52 AM UTC-4, Terry Coombs wrote:
I did some digging , turns out I DID authorize godaddy to draw for my

domain name . Haven't used it lately , don't even have a host right now . I

forgot I even have that domain ... I guess I oughta build a page . Know any

free hosting sites ?

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Wll then double Doh!

On 5/24/2014 8:32 AM, Terry Coombs wrote:
I did some digging , turns out I DID authorize godaddy to draw for my
domain name . Haven't used it lately , don't even have a host right now . I
forgot I even have that domain ... I guess I oughta build a page . Know any
free hosting sites ?


I pay for a couple on 1&1 and write them off as a business expense but I
also use isp which is free. You could do that but would not have domain
name you want. Probably no such thing as free hosting site as they will
get you for advertising or something.

| Know any
| free hosting sites ?

I know someone who likes Dreamhost. I think it's about
$2-3. A free host will show ads on your site. Why not
pay for a real host, if you're going to actually bother to
create a website? I pay $9/month for a good host at
futurequest.net. There are real people there who will
answer email. I get real email service. (Not just gmail
with my domain name on it.)

It's a mystery to me why so many people will waste
loads of money on gadgets they don't need; $100+/month
for TV; $4 for a cup of coffee.... but no one wants to pay
anything at all for online services like email and webhosting.

On 5/24/2014 8:36 AM, Mayayana wrote:
| Know any
| free hosting sites ?

I know someone who likes Dreamhost. I think it's about
$2-3. A free host will show ads on your site. Why not
pay for a real host, if you're going to actually bother to
create a website? I pay $9/month for a good host at
futurequest.net. There are real people there who will
answer email. I get real email service. (Not just gmail
with my domain name on it.)

It's a mystery to me why so many people will waste
loads of money on gadgets they don't need; $100+/month
for TV; $4 for a cup of coffee.... but no one wants to pay
anything at all for online services like email and webhosting.



That does seem to be true. Go-daddy used to have (maybe still does)
fantastic customer support. I used to wonder how they did it because the
fee I paid them to host my site was nominal. It's paid so far in the
future that I don't remember how much it is but I remember it "was" cheap.

I've closed my internet business because I just didn't want to do it
anymore but I kept the domain name because it's catchy (and it's a .com).

On 5/24/2014 8:36 AM, Mayayana wrote:
| Know any
| free hosting sites ?

I know someone who likes Dreamhost. I think it's about
$2-3. A free host will show ads on your site. Why not
pay for a real host, if you're going to actually bother to
create a website? I pay $9/month for a good host at
futurequest.net. There are real people there who will
answer email. I get real email service. (Not just gmail
with my domain name on it.)

It's a mystery to me why so many people will waste
loads of money on gadgets they don't need; $100+/month
for TV; $4 for a cup of coffee.... but no one wants to pay
anything at all for online services like email and webhosting.


That sounds expensive to me. I have several domains through Misk.com for
$12.00 year and then the hosting is only another $25.00 per year. In
short, I get the domain name and excellent hosting for $37.00/year for
each domain.

| That sounds expensive to me. I have several domains through Misk.com for
| $12.00 year and then the hosting is only another $25.00 per year. In
| short, I get the domain name and excellent hosting for $37.00/year for
| each domain.
|

That looks pretty good. There are some things missing,
like PHP/ASP. I use PHP and consider it important. And
any kind of further functionality, like shopping cart,
database, etc is lacking. It's pretty basic. But
for $2/month it looks good. I didn't see anything about
traffic allowance, though. Sites that cost more generally
have a limitation on traffic volume, but one can use up
to that limit as one sees fit. Cheaper sites often say they
have no limit on traffic, but then their terms are often
restrictive, prohibiting binaries, for instance. (Their business
model assumes that most people will never really use their
website so that actual traffic and storage will be negligible.
They back that up by prohibiting downloads or just about
any other usage other than serving simple webpages.)

Another issue is whether one shares an IP address or
has a site hosted on a dedicated server. I'm not sure about
the details there. I've never had a "virtual IP" address. But
I do use an .htaccess file (Unix/Linux) for various things.
I'm not sure if that's possible when a server is shared between
sites. Likewise, email is set up through misk.com. It appears
that you don't get your own server. One limitation with that,
as seen in their terms of service, is that you can't entirely
control the spam filter. They even claim the right to delete
email they think might be infected. They seem to be defining
your domain email as misk.com email that's simply addressable
to your domain. In other words, it's sort of like:


Their TOS also says some odd things. If I read it right, they
seem to be claiming retained ownership of your domain names,
with the right to cancel your registration, the right to change
the admin contact at will, and a ban on you selling your
domain. That may just be to prevent domain squatting, but
I've never seen such terms before.

None of those things is necessarily a problem at misk.com.
I don't really know about who they are. I'm just pointing
out that there can be a lot of real differences between
hosts. It's often hard to figure them out, since so many
hosts just advertise "oodles of stuff for almost no cost".
It's a weird business. There are also some companies
charging very high prices with no extra benefits that I
can see. I once even set up a client with network solutions
hosting, figuring that was official and he didn't care about
the cost.... only to find out that NS didn't even provide
full email service for the domain!

On 5/24/2014 10:29 PM, Mayayana wrote:
| That sounds expensive to me. I have several domains through Misk.com for
| $12.00 year and then the hosting is only another $25.00 per year. In
| short, I get the domain name and excellent hosting for $37.00/year for
| each domain.
|
Interesting discussion snipped to save bandwidth
None of those things is necessarily a problem at misk.com.
I don't really know about who they are. I'm just pointing
out that there can be a lot of real differences between
hosts. It's often hard to figure them out, since so many
hosts just advertise "oodles of stuff for almost no cost".
It's a weird business. There are also some companies
charging very high prices with no extra benefits that I
can see. I once even set up a client with network solutions
hosting, figuring that was official and he didn't care about
the cost.... only to find out that NS didn't even provide
full email service for the domain!


You make some interesting points but I have used Misk.com for several
years and never had a problem of any kind with them. I you want to see a
site that I have hosted with them just point your browser to
www.RiverValleyHorseCamp.com and take a look. This particular site gets
a lot of visitors and has several large images yet traffic volume has
never been a problem. I have several sites with them and you can find
one similar the the previous mentioned one but much simpler at
http://www.crsales.com if you want to take a look.

| You make some interesting points but I have used Misk.com for several
| years and never had a problem of any kind with them. I you want to see a
| site that I have hosted with them just point your browser to
| www.RiverValleyHorseCamp.com and take a look. This particular site gets
| a lot of visitors and has several large images yet traffic volume has
| never been a problem. I have several sites with them and you can find
| one similar the the previous mentioned one but much simpler at
| http://www.crsales.com if you want to take a look.
|
|
Nice sites. It's getting to be an unusual
thing to come across a site that just plain works.

On 5/25/2014 7:40 AM, Mayayana wrote:
| You make some interesting points but I have used Misk.com for several
| years and never had a problem of any kind with them. I you want to see a
| site that I have hosted with them just point your browser to
| www.RiverValleyHorseCamp.com and take a look. This particular site gets
| a lot of visitors and has several large images yet traffic volume has
| never been a problem. I have several sites with them and you can find
| one similar the the previous mentioned one but much simpler at
| http://www.crsales.com if you want to take a look.
|
|
Nice sites. It's getting to be an unusual
thing to come across a site that just plain works.



Thank you, your compliment was appreciated.

Don