Help me find hosting and a domain

shmogt · Oct 13, 2012

Hello everyone I was wondering if anyone knows a cheap site to buy domains and hosting from? Could be 2 separate sites. I only need to host 1 site and a lot of places have it cheap, but I don't know what's good. Any tips would be great.

DG_Silva · Oct 13, 2012

123-reg is quite good, their costs are low, reliable service, and good FTP access.

shmogt · Oct 13, 2012

I checked them out but it seems to be all euro. Do you know if they do Canada?

Pako · Oct 13, 2012

shmogt
I checked them out but it seems to be all euro. Do you know if they do Canada?

How cheap, and how good?

Gatorhosting, Godaddy, to name a couple that come to mind.

Godaddy has their funky rules ect, but if you are doing straight web hosting, they aren't too bad. I use them for a few things, from storage workspace accounts to even hosting a couple sites for my wife and daughter.

Send me a PM on some of your specific requirements and I'll see if maybe there is something else I could help you with.

nick09 · Oct 13, 2012

1and1.com sells .com domains for cheap. As for a host I would not really know. Best way is to get one that is located in Canada if that is where your target audience is.

shmogt · Oct 13, 2012

Pako
How cheap, and how good?

Gatorhosting, Godaddy, to name a couple that come to mind.

Godaddy has their funky rules ect, but if you are doing straight web hosting, they aren't too bad. I use them for a few things, from storage workspace accounts to even hosting a couple sites for my wife and daughter.

Send me a PM on some of your specific requirements and I'll see if maybe there is something else I could help you with.

I don't like godaddy because they will just give anything and everything about you away with no questions asked. I heard so many stories where they shut guys down over smaller things and didn't even try to protect their users.

All I need to do is buy a new domain and host a site. It's my teamshmo site so it's just some small pictures and words mainly. Not sure how big but can't be crazy. Traffic isn't super heavy either.

Do you or anyone know if you can host a site off of cloud storage? I have Dropbox and other cloud storage and since it's just storage I assume you could convert it to run a site.

nick09 · Oct 14, 2012

shmogt
Do you or anyone know if you can host a site off of cloud storage? I have Dropbox and other cloud storage and since it's just storage I assume you could convert it to run a site.

That can't be done. At least in the sense that you are trying to have dropbox run your website. If you can hotlink images from the dropbox then that will save bandwidth on an actual website host. It's best to buy the domain from one host and have another use that domain and take care of the hosting. You don't want a company to sell you the domain and give you hosting. It's just good practice to avoid someone else owning the domain if you wanted to move from one website host to another.

shmogt · Oct 14, 2012

nick09
That can't be done. At least in the sense that you are trying to have dropbox run your website. If you can hotlink images from the dropbox then that will save bandwidth on an actual website host. It's best to buy the domain from one host and have another use that domain and take care of the hosting. You don't want a company to sell you the domain and give you hosting. It's just good practice to avoid someone else owning the domain if you wanted to move from one website host to another.

I have heard this before a lot but don't really get why. Is it because a company will try to screw you into staying with them? I like google for domains because they let you use gmail as the email which is awesome but their domains are more expensive.

nick09 · Oct 14, 2012

shmogt
I have heard this before a lot but don't really get why. Is it because a company will try to screw you into staying with them? I like google for domains because they let you use gmail as the email which is awesome but their domains are more expensive.

It's because of scam deals of free domains with hosting. Those are registered with the company information and may trick you into paying a big fee to have it registered under you. Sites like 1and1.com are safe sites to get a domain from. So no matter what it's best to not put all of your eggs in the same basket.

shmogt · Oct 14, 2012

nick09
It's because of scam deals of free domains with hosting. Those are registered with the company information and may trick you into paying a big fee to have it registered under you. Sites like 1and1.com are safe sites to get a domain from. So no matter what it's best to not put all of your eggs in the same basket.

Lol I just saw a bunch of deals like that today. The deal was so good I almost signed up. Lucky I didn't. Thanks for that tip.