lookin into buying a domain/webspace

[Sephroth57]

I want to have a personal site, nothing really fancy. Just so i can put up videos/pictures and make a little webpage without the restrictions from the free providers.

I only want to spend liek 5-10$ a month, and i know even for that little theres some decent providers out there. anyone have any suggestions? I probably wont need more than like 500MB - 1 gig of space, not sure on the bandwith but its not like im gonna have a ton of people lookin at my site

[JoyMonkey]

I've been using Globat (that's my affiliate link), they offer 2.5gigs of storage and 75gb of bandwidth for $8 a month, but they're always having sales- right now they're offering it for $1.99 a month.

If you want, I could give you some space at joymonkey.com/~sephroth , or maybe a sub-domain.

Edit: They also have a 30 day money-back guarantee. They'll register a domain for you too for $12.

[GGKoul]

www.webmasters.com 

Great service, Great Pricing.. PLUS They have a great Control Panel that you can use to help run your site.

[Jabba]

I use 1and1.com. No problems with them at all in the last year.  $4.99/month

The 1&1 Linux Home Package offers everything you need to create an attractive presence for your family website, your hobbies, or for publishing your photos to the Internet.
Includes 1 domain at no additional cost!
1,000 MB web space
25 GB monthly transfer volume
200 e-mail accounts
Virus Guard & Spam Guard for all accounts
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[Sephroth57]

i checked out all those sites, the globeat one to get the 1.99 a month deal, you gotta pay a 30$ setup fee and when it comes down to it its 53$ to get started but you have 6 months paid,

the 1and1.com comes out to like 30$ because you have to pay the first 6 months up front.

is there anything that will just cost me like 5$ now, now like 50$ now.

[krick]

If you want something with a ton of features but still pretty cheap, check out Lunarpages.com

They have plans for $7.95 and $22.95 a month.

Kevin Steele hosts RetroBlast.com there.

[JoyMonkey]

i checked out all those sites, the globeat one to get the 1.99 a month deal, you gotta pay a 30$ setup fee and when it comes down to it its 53$ to get started but you have 6 months paid,

When I joined they were having a 'no setup fee' sale, so I avoided that. You could wait and see what their next sale is (they seem to have one every week).

I think that most hosts require you to pay the first year in advance, all advertised rates always seem to assume you'll be doing a one year program.

As I said, I can give you some of my space for nothing, but then you wouldn't have the nice domain.

[Sephroth57]

so how would that work joy, im a newb to the whole website thing. so my site would be www.whatever.joymonkey.com or something.  how would i edit it, does your host have some kind of control panel thing i could use, and how do uploads work, via browser or FTP?

[JoyMonkey]

so how would that work joy, im a newb to the whole website thing. so my site would be www.whatever.joymonkey.com or something.  how would i edit it, does your host have some kind of control panel thing i could use, and how do uploads work, via browser or FTP?

That's pretty much how it works. I don't think you'd be able to upload from the website, but you can use an FTP program no problem.
All FTP accounts created under joymonkey.com create web addresses like joymonkey.com/~whatever , but if you'd prefer a subdomain like whatever.joymonkey.com I can set one up that forwards to joymonkey.com/~whatever

Sorry, I know that sounds a little confusing.

Shoot me a PM (with whatever user and password you'd like) and I'll set you up an FTP account if you want to try it out.

[Sephroth57]

thanks for your generous offer, but a friend on kingdom of loathing hooked me up with a promotional code for a webhost, that got me a YEAR of hosting for 10$! =) im so happy, free domain too, no hidden crap.

its www.dreamhost.com hosting, and my website will be www.BlackheartRises.com

[JoyMonkey]

Wow! Great deal! Best o' luck with the site. I wish Globat.com gave me promotional codes like that 

As soon as Globat's $1.99 sale ended, they started a $1 for 3 months with no setup fee offer, but you'd still end up paying $75 for a year (which isn't bad considering I paid the full $96 and thought I was getting a sweet deal)

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[missioncontrol]

I use 1and1.com. No problems with them at all in the last year.

[mnm1200]

ah so you're druid =)

yep. until the begging of march, you get 2400MB webspace, free domain name, 15 subdomains, and 120GB/mon transfer all for 10USD for the first year.

If I had something I needed a website for, I'd have used this too. Too bad =(

Oh well, cheers everyone!

(BTW the promotion code is 777 - for their seventh year anniversary)

[Jabba]

I use 1and1.com. No problems with them at all in the last year.

[Jakobud]

I've been very satisfied with www.lypha.com for webhosting www.Jakobud.com

[SOAPboy]

I use 1and1.com. No problems with them at all in the last year.