Cheap, reliable hosting...
 

If your team is in need of cheap, reliable hosting, send me an e-mail.

I am re-selling webspace for Ventures Online (the same service that hosts chiefdelphi.com).
My prices are a bit cheaper than VO, but the service is still just as reliable.

Payments are by PayPal, in 3, 6, or 12 month increments. And hosting plans & prices can be found here: http://hosting.pubarso.com/

Let me know if I can help ya out.

Its well worth it
 

After paying $30 a month for Yahoo, I decided to switch to Brandon's Hosting.
Now http://www.rhodewarrior.org is on Brandon's servers. The price is competitive, there are no hidden fees, and he uses Paypal.

At first I had a couple of problems, but Brandon helped me fixed them. He is very knowledgeable, and can reply to your problem very quickly.

So I would seriously check out his deals, if you looking for quality web hosting.

I know many people who have small hosting companies. I talkted to one of them and they said that the best for the teams would be there speciall price. ww.milescape.com they have a plan
for $100 year. you can right now get 100mb/7.5gig bandwidth
which is good i think for most teams. They are soon gonna change the promotional to 300mb. So wait a bit.

Well the one MVRT is hosted on is nomonthlyfees.com we got it for cheap because we know the guy. Though they have a good plan like $200 one time fee.catch is 70 domain feew for year. But if you write to them. They maybe able to give you a good deal.

wow, you guys aren't looking into this gigantic thing we call the internet at all.. i'm getting 500mb space/5 gig transfer w/1 mysql, cgi, php, perl, server side, unlimited pop3, webmail interface, etc. for $2.08/month if paid yearly or $2.50/month if paid monthly... then you can get $8/year domain registration and that can end up being $32.96 a year for all that... but it did take me a while to find. :D

well yea there is no montly fee for us... We get all that stuff u just said for FREE. ;) . Oh yea we did get the domains from godaddy for $8

care to share where at?

A cheap way to host a site might be to bug the heck out of your school to let you have a computer on their network. I believe the average highschool has a T1 line, correct? (I'm in the smallest school I have ever been in...our graduation class will be below 70 and we have a T1). Have some computer-savvy (or not-so-savvy) person on your team setup a simple apache/ftp server. You would need a domain name and IP address. I've never really networked so I don't know any of the details.

I have 800 mb and unlimited transfer with as much mysql, cgi, php, perl, and anything else I want for just the cost of keeping my computer on all the time. :-p

Re: previous two posts

Thats fine if (a) your ISP allows you to run a server, and (b) you don't have a high load on your website. If I were to run a site here at home, I'd have to deal with the dynamic IP changing all the time, not to mention the speed restrictions on my connection, thanks to comcast. It'd be too much of a hassle, and the few dollars you spend a month is worth having someone else worry about most aspects of running it, imho. I'd rather work on the content of the site, rather than work on keeping ithe server stable.

I was posting more to brag on monsieurcoffee. A post like that with no link is as good as no post at all.

Well, my HS campus is 3 schools and each one has ONE cable connection. 5000 kids, 3 cable modems, not very good.

I think they may not have speed restrictions though, cause i think we made a deal with Comcrap(Comcast).

Wouldn't work unless they gave you an external IP address. If you only had the internal school network address, only the people on that network would be able to get to it.

plus most schools have a firewall or proxy if their IT depatrment isn't half bad

Our district has a horrible policy of not allowing any last names to be posted on any sites on the school servers. We're hosting our site off of one of our engineer's servers with 40gigs of space to waste if feel like it. Our school has a T1 line for 1500 people and that does tend to slow down on the slower systems. As for personally hosting, I don't feel like giving the URL of where I get my hosting from... it's be nice to have my server but I RoadRunner has so many proxies and firewalls and bs that it's just dumb, especially when your site gets some hits and it clogs everything up.

Yeah...where can you get an external IP address?

we had our school host the site for one year and it was total BS. They have to update everything themselves and wouldn't let you do it outside of school. And if you did give them an update, it'd take them 3 months to do it. It was total crap so I decided to do it myself.

First off: There are people that will rout to a Dynamic IP. I know a few people that use it. There is software the pings the host site and it records the current IP and adjusts the pointers within seconds or minutes. If you want to lookinto this do a search for Dynamic IP's and and see what you get.

The bad thing about doing your own hosting or on your schools servers (besides the previosly mentioned BS with IT "profesionals") is ther is not the same Backup and redududnacy for your power and backbone connection. Our town talked about putting a generator in at our school because the local power gets lost if the wind blows in the wrong direction. And I'm not in the back woods either. My Cable connection is usually good for a month or two then will be out for 2-days. Can't count on that one!

I uses a company called FeaturePrice and www.featureprice.com they also have a feew affiliates that offer different stuff. For 25/mon, I can host 6 internet sites, with tripple-redundant T3 backbones, Power backup, daily server backups, UNLIMITED Disk Space, UNLIMITED: Email; FTP; X-fer; MySQL; HTTP Streaming (because their connection is fast enough) and a bunch of other stuff. They have plans starting from 5/month if your just starting.

Be ware if things are too cheap or free- you may have to deal with ADs or Lots of Downtime or No support.

Good luck

Brinkster.com has pretty decent hosting. It's free and there aren't any ads. The only downside is it's only 30MB of web space.

http://www.Brinkster.com

Yeah and No FTP support on the free version

www.spenix.com is another option to consider. It's not the cheapest out there but your dollar sure goes a long way.

I need something add-free with FTP for FREE!

Good luck:D The free-est your going to get would be like $4 per month but most likely $5.

phpwebhosting.com is good. unlimited everything for 10 bucks a month.

Ok. I looked it up.... Brinkster.com offers the following:

Cost
• FREE

Main Features
• 30 MB of Web Space
• 500 MB/Month of Data Transfer (bandwidth)
• Web Based File Manager
• ASP.NET / .NET Framework v1, Mobile Internet Toolkit v1
• ASP 3.0 Support (Includes ADO, FileSystemObject)

I've used their hosting....it's okay.

eeew.... ASP.

Other features:
• No e-mail
• Free IIS vunerabilities.

:)

I think our school lets us host our websites on their severs. Unforunatly they won't let us post any pictures on ourselves.

Hey...whatever works. At least it's free.

if a team really needs to host there website. We can host their site for free. Please contact me at amx@mvrt.com
Please send me what all you need and we can see how we can help.

Akshay

Help! Our domain name, www.RoboDox.org , expired on us. We can re-register with the old company, but they had donated it to us. I don't think they will again. Where's a good place to register a domain, and how does all this work? I haven't done it before...

Wow. I'm feeling grateful.

Our sponsor we-solve.com hosts our site for free, unlimited space, I can update anytime. When we first started the web MCHS parent brought up the issue of pics and full names, and gave us the school policy on it just as a heads up, but we went ahead and posted names and pics and haven't had any complaints. Our team's now doing scrrf's web and we-solve.com hosts it.



Before starting our web, it was hosted by Redondo Union High School Beach net, and the web built and maintained by bnet students - way not up-to-date

BeachNet

"RUHS is the only high school in the nation with student run ISP. Many schools have students working with IS and networks, but no others are responsible for running an ISP and for managing the district WAN." School District Technology Director Pat Hosken, mentor of Beach Cities Robotics Team 294
Robotics and BeachNET both have alumni who've gone on to successful web design, computer consultant careers.

Redondo Union High School was opened in 1905. It is the 3rd largest piece of land in the nation for a high school - @ 54 acres. Lindbergh attended, didn't graduate from here; Smothers Brothers did graduate. A view of the beach. RUHS


"Freeth accepted Huntington's offer and arrived in Redondo in 1907, not only introducing surfing to the United States, but most dramatically, becoming the first person to use the surfboard for surf-and-ocean rescue work. This was the initial step in the incredible story of the Southern California Lifeguard Services. From the ancient Hawaiians' love and tremendous respect for the ocean, we have all been blessed. "

I've had good service through www.powerpipe.com You will need a credit-card to order. The cost is only $8 per year. Under the nameservers part of the registration info, you will need to select "your own nameservers" and enter the nameservers that your hosting place has given you. You will also need to enter all your contact info. Hit submit or whatever the button is and you'll be flying high. It may take a few days to work though. Just make sure you have the nameserver info entered right and don't ever change it.

Also make sure your hosting account is still active.:)

If you write up a business letter explaining your team and e-mail it to several hosting providers, they may donate the domain to you. We did that with our website (www.feds201.com). We sent out messages to about 10 providers and got 8 responses. If you look, there are people willing to give you stuff. You just have to ask nicely.

Say that you will put a small link to the bottem of your page to their site. Thats what i did. Go look at a hosting list http://www.hostsearch.com/ and find some providers that fit what you need. (Ex: php, mysql, asp, perl, lots of bandwidth, large server space) Then type one email and send it to a main email contact for each provider. just change the name.

To a large provider, a little server space isn't worth a lot.

PS: Ask for domain regestration too. They did it for us for free. :)

Heh. I really hope you can afford to register your domain name...it's $15/year IIRC (that may be even a bit high). Don't ask too much...

http://www.godaddy.com is just $8.95 per year, and I've had good luck with them.

To all of you complaining about your school's network connection, know that you are far better off than me. My entire DISTRICT, seven elementaries/two jr highs/one high school, share a single DSL line. That's almost 10000 people on a single network connection!

How cheap is that!?!?!?! How do they ever afford a robotics program?

Wow...there are more kids in your school than all the people in my county.

school district..

The network is still really fast at the School, I haven't ever seen any speed problems. For hosting, take a look at: http://www.webhostingtalk.com A whole site of web hosts that want your competition. This was very helpful in finding the host I currently use now, http://www.alwayswebhosting.com/

Is http://www.megawebserver.com/ a good webserver?

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/

Thats a good place to read about hosts & see if they are reliable or not. Many people visit that board & comment on their good and bad experiences with website hosting companies.