Thanks, and I did click through your site :) Thanks for the suggestion.
Is the 50 meg bandwith on My Go Daddy site a likely contributor to why it
takes so long to add anything to the site? If so, the Bluehost bandwidth
(is that the same as transfer rate?) is much greater. Overall, it looks
like a better, more user-friendly hosting venue than Go Daddy. Thought I
could get by with the free, basic site Go Daddy gives you with a domain
name, but increasingly realizing I'll really need more. And the speed issue
reminds me of being back on dial up, so if time is money, this ain't so
free!
Randall
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gayley Knight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 7:50 AM
Subject: Re: [CGUYS] Webhosting options?
Morning - I am now using Bluehost for all our clients. I am not sure what
you mean by paying a lot up front, but Bluehost does let you out at any
time with full refund (even prorated for the month if you drop their
service short of a full month). A 12-month plan is $7.95/month, payable it
appears all at one time, with free domain. Since you have a domain
already, if you decide to transfer the domain to Bluehost when it comes
for renewal, there is free transfer. There is no setup fee with an annual
subscription. For a 24-month plan, the hosting fee is only $6.95/month.
Their tech support is live and knowledgeable. For one hosting fee, you can
set up unlimited free standing sites (they will be top domain).
I've been developing sites since 1996 and tested quite a few hosting
companies over the years, often testing with our own dummy sites for 12
months or more -- all with the goal of saving our clients' money.
Bluehost is by far the best we've used -- it is so good I signed up to be
an affiliated partner and am migrating our clients there. If you decide to
check it out, and will click through my site (www.conlinks.com), I will
earn 25 cents (regardless of whether you sign up for the service or not --
those quarters do add up - thank you).
If you want to compare this with 1and1.com or Dreamhost, which are
similar, Bluehost is just more user-friendly. Having used GoDaddy for one
of our nonprofit clients last year, I would never recommend it. Another
company we've used is pair.com, which is less user-friendly for those
maintaining their own sites and, like GoDaddy, the add-ons add up quickly,
but an excellent company.
/gayley
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Connecting Links Web Production & Consulting
"targeting your web problems, providing inexpensive solutions"
Randall wrote:
> I have 3 domain names through Go Daddy and have begun to set up 2
of the free, basic websites that come with the purchase of the domain
name. Have found it a pretty user-unfriendly experience so far and takes
forever to load, though may be having slow loading problems beyond this
site. At last Saturdays PC Computer Users meeting someone from this list
(whose name I will keep confidential) heard me ask about webhosting
alternatives and came up and suggested Bluehost. I checked it out and it
seems to be better than Go Daddy, though you have to pay a fair amount up
front rather than on a monthly basis as Go Daddy lets you. Also, I now
get a free, albeit very basic, minimal site (5 pages) with the domain
name. I'm tempted to try Bluehost but just wondering if anyone else has
had experience with it and in comparison with Go Daddy, or any other
sites. BlueHost appears less expensive than the one Tom once recommended,
A1A or something like that.
>
> Also, my current site gives me 1 GB bandwidth, so wondering if
this might have to do with the slow loading speed. I can upgrade to a
better deal on Go Daddy but it would be a little more than BlueHost and
looks like you would still get less. And am I write in thinking, after
playing around with site awhile, that I'll probably need or want more than
50 MB of disk space?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Randall
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