Hello Julian
To keep this on topic, it helps people pay for future Netconnects!
> My research was via Computer Active Issue 46.
A consumer mag! To get an overview + a league table you need Internet
Magazine.
> Demon Internet (business account) 118 setup+ 29 per month
>
> Freeserve 147 setup+ 35 per year
>
> There were several other ISPs included but assuming I don't go bust
> very quickly Freeserve seemed the best. There may be cheaper options
> but for actual business use rather than the vanity of having a domain
> name in itself they would appear to be a safe option.
Check out the two I mentioned, be careful about US based solutions, being on
a us server may give you a prescence for tax!
> What option can Neil offer? If the price is somewhere even in the same
> ballpark as Freeserve, I would consider Wirenet. I need a domain name,
> a reasonable amount of webspace and an ordinary ISP account (I might
> as well put all my eggs in one basket). I don't need any fancy website
> facilities.
Not the way it works, you get the .co.uk, then the .com and .net and have
ideas about how to use them, then you spot other opportunities and get more
domains ( likely the the .com and .net as well), then you realise that
similar names could be registered by competitors and you buy them to
protect them, but might as well use them, suddenly you are looking at
multiple domain hosting and that great single domain deal starts getting
expensive.
That's why I mentioned http://www.dsvr.co.uk who also do free dial up when
you rent space (you can even set up an isp using this and if you get volume
take around 90pc of the phone call share)
It is not cheap when compared to single domain deals but is when the price
is devided by several domains.
> And what is my business? Well the net is full of people bursting to
> tell you how to become a millionaire overnight. I'm not telling.
> Something on the web that's never been done before is quite a feat.
Also many things being done are being done really badly. The execution does
not live up to the concept. Many sites also show a lack of love, cold greed
shows through, not desirable when the medium is about relationships!
John
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