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[trd_celica_jdm]

anybody know where i can get a good amount of web space and good uploading speed for cheep like wihting 5-10 bucks a month range let me know thanks


Trd celica JDM
Nick

 

[Andrew87]

My host uses lehost.net and we get all this for $8.95 per month - although we're a UK site and the server is Canadian but they give us no trouble, and give good value (our site is www.cdvdshop.net) - and also I hosted my own site on it too, see my sig


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[pergatory]

I use www.ipowerweb.com.
They give 500MB, 30GB/mo bandwidth, for different rates depending on how long you pay in advance for. 12-month rate is $7.95/mo, 24-month rate is $6.95/mo. You also get free domain, bunch of e-mails, FTP, web store, etc. The usual extras.

 

[Andrew87]

Originally posted by pergatory
I use www.ipowerweb.com.
They give 500MB, 30GB/mo bandwidth, for different rates depending on how long you pay in advance for. 12-month rate is $7.95/mo, 24-month rate is $6.95/mo. You also get free domain, bunch of e-mails, FTP, web store, etc. The usual extras.

wow that is cheap, do they offer unlimited MySQL databases and subdomain names? It doesn't say if it's unlimited or not on their site.

 

[19xx]

I also use ipowerweb. This, along with Lunarpages.com and Globat.com have apparently been fighting for a long time for cheap hosting.

Try compare ipowerweb.com to.. say... hostway.com

ipowerweb gives you 3 MySQL databases, but generally this is more than enough unless you're doing multiple domains in one account. Remember that you can have unlimited tables in one database.

 

[Andrew87]

I'm currently using 4 or 5 databases but I could cut it down if I use the same table for different apps if they don't conflict, it may be worth switching over not only because of the price, but for the extra bandwidth usage too.

 

[19xx]

Haha I'm having a hard time figuring out how to waste at least 20GB each month.

Andrew, your sites are crammed with PHP scripts and I love it! I want to know the scripts for the gallery, news, and the random images while avoiding copyright infringement as much as possible heheheh

 

[[myg0t]wicked]

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[trd_celica_jdm]

I gooing to use i power thanks foir the help.. i mostly wanted it to host videos..but ill thorew in a webpage or 2 in it...i use dreamweaver and frontpage.. what do you all use? well anywayz thanks i apreciate it

TRD Celica JDM
Nick

 

[pergatory]

Originally posted by trd_celica_jdm
i use dreamweaver and frontpage.. what do you all use?

Notepad & Photoshop, best tools ever!

 

[trd_celica_jdm]

oOo u HTML i hate usoing HTML....i use ps7 (photoshop 7) and flash mx as well

 

[CudaMan]

So what's all this MySQL database business? I know how to make HTML web pages but beyond that I have no experience. Considering getting some inexpensive web hosting with my own domain later this year. Do I need to learn about this MySQL stuff or anything else?

 

[pergatory]

Nope, don't need to learn anything. The more you learn, the more you can do obviously, but ultimately you can do pretty much anything you want in HTML. It's just often much easier and more efficient to do it using other means when your webpages start getting complicated. For example, for dynamic content, instead of using two HTML pages, you might use a single HTML with some sort of logic-oriented language like JavaScript or ASP.

SQL specifically is a database language. It's the standard, and it's very easy to learn. Well, it's easy to learn how to do the basics. It can get really complicated really fast though. Databases can be used for stuff where there is a lot of one particular type of information. For example I could use it on my settings page. On my end, I would have a table (Excel-like grid of raw information) where I enter in each setting of each car. Not "springrate: 10lbs/in" just "10" for example. Then I can have a webpage that gets that information and builds a list that would probably look exactly like my current webpage does. But the trick is, you will have easy access to adding, deleting, and modifying that webpage without having to bother copy & pasting all those lines of HTML. You just add a new row in the table. You can also do stuff like have a little drop-down list to pick the car, and show only that car's settings. You could also add a relational table (that's where things start getting complicated fast) that associates certain cars with certain drivetrains, for example. Then you have two drop-down lists, in the first you choose the drivetrain like FR, which fills the second with all the FR cars that you have settings for.

Downfall: You can't just use SQL with HTML. You gotta use a real programming language to stick between the two. Usually this is done with ASP for SQL databases. ASP is Visual Basic. I'm not joking, I still don't know why they gave it a different name, marketing scheme perhaps? Anyway, if you know VB (learn if you don't), just name the file .asp instead of .html, and build like a normal HTML page, and put any VB code in a tag like this:
<%Visual Basic%>
Kazzam!! You're an ASP programmer.

Also, if you know the basics of the language (in other words if you can understand what the code means) you don't really have to know what each function is called or each class is called. You can just look up an example somewhere on the web, and copy & paste.

There, bet that was more than you wanted to know. Send a self-addressed envelope to me for a free cookie if you made it this far through my message!

 

[CudaMan]

That was more than I wanted to know, yes, but you confirmed what I was thinking - if you have no dynamic pages then there's not much need to get into that db stuff.

Thanks.

BTW, I dont' know if it's just me but the font on your site is really small - so small I can't read it unless I set my fonts to display "medium" in my IE window. I'm running 1280x1024 resolution on a 19" monitor, most stuff including everything on GTPlanet is very easy for me to read.

I can take a screenshot if you want, it's pretty humorous I think.

 

[Dark Skyline]

no

 

[pergatory]

I use the same resolution on the same size monitor...

Isn't "Medium" the default? That's what mine is always on.

 

[19xx]

preg can set a fixed font size using CSS...

(useless info: this method is prohibited in the Americans with Disabilities Act .. but I trust that no one in GTP have visions of 20/300 or less...)

 

[pergatory]

I know, I went out of my way to make everything relative so that you can resize it. For people with bad eye-sight who need to make it bigger, mainly. Not that there's going to be many people like that drifting, but I do it for the sake of consistency. It should definetely not be set any lower than Medium though.

And yes, I know all about ADA, have you ever used WebQA? Stupid freakin WebQA... Anyway, ADA isn't enforced, it's just a standard, although it is enforced on all publicly accessible government-run websites.

 

[CudaMan]

Originally posted by pergatory
I use the same resolution on the same size monitor...

Interesting. I've never had any problem with other web sites having IE set to display fonts "smaller." I just tried switching to medium and I can probably live with it - GTP is hardly affected really. There is a huuuge difference between the two settings on your site perg. Strange.

 

[pergatory]

Yeah, I don't know why it makes such a huge difference, I'll probably set my higher level CSS classes to an absolute size, because I have layers upon layers of CSS. I think that it's increasing the size of each layer when you change the Text Size, and each layer's font is specified relative to the next level up, so they all stack up and you end up with huge letters or really small letters.

Anyway, I'll work on it, it's still incredibly under construction. Notice none of the buttons along the top work... they used to but I broke them... that's my main priority right now but I have no time lately because of a hectic rally-planning session. Stupid IFPL (industrial fire precaution levels)... messed up our whole schedule. All of a sudden we might not be able to run during the day so we have to plan for both day and night depending on whether it rains or not. Then yesterday we decided to split the first day into two sessions, and just get as much rallying done as we can without violating the IFPL (which means no rallying between 1:00-8:00pm). So I had to find workers for each day, under each scenario (and I had less than one day with the final scenario that we decided on because I had to mail it all out today which I barely managed to do). What a pain! At least I get to navigate the pace car

Speaking of the rally, anyone in the Washington area might be interested in checking it out. It's the Wild West ProRally:
http://www.wildwestrally.com/
It's taking place in the Olympia/Shelton/Matlock area. If you'd like to volunteer to help with the rally, e-mail me and I'll get you set up.

 

[CudaMan]

You're involved in organizing SCCA ProRally events? Cool! I've always wanted to participate in one of those but never had a disposable car I could thrash around in.

 

[19xx]

WebQA... I never used it, but based on the features it's more like the ultimate validation service. Dreamweaver already got a good one.

I just don't like validations. It should be the user's responsibility to own a computer that is up-to-date. It's only $300 for a complete 500MHz computer with a monitor, and it's enough for everything you can do except PC games. People don't like IE due to piracy violations in its terms of agreement, but it's YOUR responsibility not to go to porn or warez sites in the first place...