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Web Hosting Frustration.
MYX:
Hey all,
I am seriously looking at finally buying my own .com. Something I have hought about for a couple of years. I am really tired of being restricted by comcasts personal webspace space. (25M) I can't do much with it. So I was wondering what you guys were using and why and if you like it.
I spent most my free time yesterday and Friday reading different services services. I am thinking about playing around with the .net stuff as I am learning (or trying to learn) VB right now and am seeing some cool stuff you can do with the .net stuff.
Several places like Yahoo! are offering a free domain name if you use their service. My only fear it that is I decided to leave their service is that the name would not then belong to me. Also, not saying that I would do this but say someone wanted to buy my WWW. :dunno .com could Yahoo! sell it to them or would they have to get permission from me, and more so, would I get the $$$ for it?
saint:
Always always always buy and own your own domain name, then find a host for it. You want to totally be in control. Never give anyone the passwords/technical control over your domain name.
saint:
Oh - we use 1and1 hosting and are very happy with it.
shmokes:
I use Powweb. Dunno if anyone has caught up, but when I bought the hosting services about a year ago nobody else could touch their price for the webspace, bandwidth and services they offer.
billf:
MYX specifically mentioned .net and I don't see anything on the Powweb website about .net. I have several websites hosted at easycgi.com.