Vicki Hardin on sat 3 jan 04
webspace? All of mine have.>
Everything that John R. said and also the URL you will have with an ISP will be something like PotterLady.Aol.com rather than PotterLady.com. The bandwidth too that I have seen has been limited. Which means, when you get too many visitors, your site gets shut down. One of the real problems with this is beyond that of people not seeing your site. A lot of people work hard to get good ranking in the search engines. If Google.bot (the Google Spider) should happen by and your site is down, the speculation amongst web optimiztion gurus is that your site is dropped. I say speculation, because, Google tells you very little about how they list, but this is getting off on another tangent...
Best Regards,
Vicki Hardin
http://ClayArtWebGuide.com
Chris Jones on sat 3 jan 04
Hello all,
I just read Elizabeth Priddy's post about her updated website and went to
look at it. It was "temporarily suspended" due to high bandwidth usage. This
is a shining example of why free hosting is really not worth it. Next is the
pop-up ads that accompany the "free" site. I am not trying to start some
thing here, just re-emphasizing to the group why a little $$ goes a long way
toward a stronger internet presence. I have found numerous web hosts with
good services for around $100 per year. One or two sales off your site will
certainly off set the investment. Just my 2 cents worth.
Chris Jones
www.jonespottery.net
www.islandpotter.com
Amelia Island, FL
Kathy Forer on sat 3 jan 04
To add 2 cents more. There are some even lower cost alternatives out
there. One is www.1and1.com which is real hosting but is basically free
except for domain name registration of $5.95, which is even less than
registration with godaddy.com. See comments at
http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/29587
My current host www.your-site.com in Pittsfield, MA charges $5/month
for very good hosting, including 50 pop email accounts and cgi-bin
access. Though they seem to average a minor problem a month which is
okay if you just blink a few times.
Kathy Forer
foreverink.com kforer.com
On Jan 3, 2004, at 1:56 AM, Chris Jones wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I just read Elizabeth Priddy's post about her updated website and went
> to
> look at it. It was "temporarily suspended" due to high bandwidth
> usage. This
> is a shining example of why free hosting is really not worth it. Next
> is the
> pop-up ads that accompany the "free" site. I am not trying to start
> some
> thing here, just re-emphasizing to the group why a little $$ goes a
> long way
> toward a stronger internet presence. I have found numerous web hosts
> with
> good services for around $100 per year. One or two sales off your site
> will
> certainly off set the investment. Just my 2 cents worth.
>
>
> Chris Jones
> www.jonespottery.net
> www.islandpotter.com
> Amelia Island, FL
Kaitai on sat 3 jan 04
Im a very satisfied customer.
http://hosting.deru.net/
$ 50.00 a year and tons of features no popups. I have 4 web sites through
them and tech support is awesome. I run a PHP shopping cart, a discussion
board, and soon an online art gallery.
Take care and good luck.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Jones"
To:
Sent: Friday, January 02, 2004 10:56 PM
Subject: Why to use paid web hosting...
> Hello all,
>
> I just read Elizabeth Priddy's post about her updated website and went to
> look at it. It was "temporarily suspended" due to high bandwidth usage.
This
> is a shining example of why free hosting is really not worth it. Next is
the
> pop-up ads that accompany the "free" site. I am not trying to start some
> thing here, just re-emphasizing to the group why a little $$ goes a long
way
> toward a stronger internet presence. I have found numerous web hosts with
> good services for around $100 per year. One or two sales off your site
will
> certainly off set the investment. Just my 2 cents worth.
>
>
> Chris Jones
> www.jonespottery.net
> www.islandpotter.com
> Amelia Island, FL
>
>
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John Rodgers on sat 3 jan 04
Most ISP's do provide web space, but it is for the purposes of a
personal home page and it's size is usually fairly restricted in size,
anywhere from 5 megs to 50 megs of web space.
For commercial use, ie, running a site for the purposes of selling
stuff, receiving credit card paymets, etc, one needs more space and
typically 500 megabytes is available, with numerous e-mail accounts,
etc, available. Also available are counters that gather staistics on the
amount of use your web site is getting. Numbers of hits per hour, etc,
total number of visitors, etc, etc. This is not available on the typical
personal web site.
These are the principal differences, except perhaps, costs..
Regards,
John Rodgers
Chelsea, AL
Lee Love wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Chris Jones"
>
>
>
>>pop-up ads that accompany the "free" site. I am not trying to start some
>>thing here, just re-emphasizing to the group why a little $$ goes a long
>>
>>
>way
>
>
>>toward a stronger internet presence.
>>
>>
>
> This has always confused me. Don't most ISP subscriptions include
>webspace? All of mine have.
>
>--
>Lee In Mashiko, Japan
>http://Mashiko.us
>
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John Rodgers on sun 4 jan 04
Vicki,
I just dropped in on http://www. clayartwebguide.com. Great site. I
don't recall having seen it before. If I have it has been so far back I
have forgotten.
If any clayart person out there has not seen it they should. Great resource.
Regards,
John Rodgers
Chelsea, AL
Vicki Hardin wrote:
>>webspace? All of mine have.>
>
>Everything that John R. said and also the URL you will have with an ISP will be something like PotterLady.Aol.com rather than PotterLady.com. The bandwidth too that I have seen has been limited. Which means, when you get too many visitors, your site gets shut down. One of the real problems with this is beyond that of people not seeing your site. A lot of people work hard to get good ranking in the search engines. If Google.bot (the Google Spider) should happen by and your site is down, the speculation amongst web optimiztion gurus is that your site is dropped. I say speculation, because, Google tells you very little about how they list, but this is getting off on another tangent...
>
>Best Regards,
>Vicki Hardin
>http://ClayArtWebGuide.com
>
>______________________________________________________________________________
>Send postings to clayart@lsv.ceramics.org
>
>You may look at the archives for the list or change your subscription
>settings from http://www.ceramics.org/clayart/
>
>Moderator of the list is Mel Jacobson who may be reached at melpots@pclink.com.
>
>
>
Lee Love on sun 4 jan 04
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Jones"
> pop-up ads that accompany the "free" site. I am not trying to start some
> thing here, just re-emphasizing to the group why a little $$ goes a long
way
> toward a stronger internet presence.
This has always confused me. Don't most ISP subscriptions include
webspace? All of mine have.
--
Lee In Mashiko, Japan
http://Mashiko.us
Jones Pottery on sun 4 jan 04
This has always confused me. Don't most ISP subscriptions include
webspace? All of mine have.
--
Lee In Mashiko, Japan
http://Mashiko.us
In most cases you are correct. Most ISP's have a small free space for you,
but most limit bandwidth, e-commerce abilities and several other features
you can get on a full service paid host. Mine is $99 per year with 550 megs
of space and includes domain registration. It has full e-commerce
capabilities as well as a host of other technologies that I will likely
never use. It also has good website stats that really have helped me tweak
my site and other sites I have built. Once again........just my input.
Chris Jones
www.jonespottery.net
www.islandpotter.com
Amelia Island, FL
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