Website Hosting

[Neal Probert]

I'm interested in knowing what people do for hosting their websites.

I do my own hosting for my business and I host a number of other websites as well. I'm sharing a 768K SDSL line with another business at the moment.

For domain registration, I go to www.dotster.com. For DNS, I use www.dyndns.org. This combination gives me excellent control over my domains and I can set and change things very quickly.

[Brandon Martus]

chiefdelphi.com is hosted by VenturesOnline

I also have/know of 4-5 other sites, plus half a dozen resold accounts.
Click the link in my signature for my pricing. Same VO service, a little cheaper.

[sanddrag]

None of those choices really. I just purchased a hosting account from www.spenix.com to host our team's site. It was easier to just do this because my ISP doesn't allow running servers and my school is to cheap or lazy to do it themselves.

[Redhead Jokes]

Originally posted by Neal Probert
I'm interested in knowing what people do for hosting their websites.

I do my own hosting for my business and I host a number of other websites as well. I'm sharing a 768K SDSL line with another business at the moment.

For domain registration, I go to www.dotster.com. For DNS, I use www.dyndns.org. This combination gives me excellent control over my domains and I can set and change things very quickly.

My husband/mentor has a consulting business, we-solve.com , he hasn't done anything with since taking on rent.com , but we still had our own servers hosting ours and others sites. Since a year? ago Mark moved our servers to rent.com who's sharing their facility. I don't know the lingo or info, but I think he's doing just as you are, sharing a line, and using dotstar.

So our robotics and scrrf sites are hosted for free, space isn't an issue...

[Lindy]

Our school is rigged with a couple of full-sized NT-based servers (that they keep in the "Media Center" -- an overglorified library) connected on a T3 pipe. Needless to say, rawc.net has about all the space and bandwidth that it needs.

Now, once they upgrade the thing to 2000 and start implementing the rest of the server extentions, we can actually do something nice with the site. It'll be a nice change instead of the half-baked job that it is right now.

[rbayer]

Our team website is hosted by someone who knows one of our mentors, so we get it for free (or really, really cheap). Unfortunately, that means we don't get PHP support or shell access to anything.

My website, www.robbayer.com, leeches bandwidth from my friend's dad's business DSL (don't worry, he encouraged it). My friend and I set up an old Linux server w/ Apache and I got all the networking stuff working along with a few name-based virtual servers so we could use one comp to host multiple sites. Anyway, it hosts my site, his site, and another server on the same DSL line hosts his dad's business' site. All-in-all, it works really well since I get root access to everything via SSH in addition to ftp, etc.

[AJ Quick]

Originally posted by rbayer
Our team website is hosted by someone who knows one of our mentors, so we get it for free (or really, really cheap). Unfortunately, that means we don't get PHP support or shell access to anything.

That is somewhat changed, depending on what the others do, I have created a new account with the host I host my sites with. They have all the good features, and everything... I couldn't stand the host we currently are with...

If you are looking for a good host, check out these forums: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/ (It is a bunch of webhosts fighting over you) I have recieved much programming business from hosts on this site.

[Brandon Martus]

Originally posted by AJ Quick
If you are looking for a good host, check out these forums: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/ (It is a bunch of webhosts fighting over you) I have recieved much programming business from hosts on this site.

Yeah.. thats where I researched hosting and found Ventures Online, the host chiefdelphi.com uses (and the one I re-sell for)

-Brandon

[mtaman02]

i use www.tripod.com to host my website and use a link redirector service by cjb.net which comes in handy for those long pointless links that i make.

http://robowizards522.tripod.com/Home/ = http://www.robowizards.cjb.net


another team member of 522 hosts the official robotics site right out of his house - which isn't cheap as far as the electric bill / internet bill that comes in each month and uses i think deerfield.com or dns2go.com to use www.robowizards.com

[Stephen Kowski]

We are actually used to have our website on a sponsors server's, but they decided to start asking for us to pay so we decided to move the website to our school server, and that enables us to do alot more in the way of a dynamic website(programming in ASP.NET and ASP etc). The website might take longer to type in, but oh well.