On their webpage they state they provide WYSIWYG tools and provide several templates. Well, I don't want any of that -- I just want to pop my little site up there without any templates.
So, this may be a dumb/easy question, but can I assume that use of their templates or whatever is completely optional and I can use the webspace like any other webspace? (With space and transfer limits, of course.)
Kris
I do know of a domain hosting service that for $5 for life offers 100 MB of webspace/100 MB of bandwidth/transfer a month, and even gives access to logs, with standard FTP access, so what you want can be had cheap. I use them with a couple of domains I have, and they seem to get the job done. (I have no affiliation with this host; contact me if interested.)
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There are plenty of good hosting companies that are offering decent service for anywhere from $50 to $120 per year.
Why pay $50 a year for a dinky little site if a one time payment of $5 will do just as well? Think here of dinky amateur sites, or "this domain for sale" pages, etc.
Why pay $50 a year for a dinky little site if a one time payment of $5 will do just as well? Think here of dinky amateur sites, or "this domain for sale" pages, etc.
Well, Robert, I assume that a site that the owner wants to have FTP access for is not a "this domain is for sale" site, and as someone else pointed out - the $5 service you mentioned is actually a 100% frameset which google will ignore and expose the free domain URL instead.
So if you are trying to create a site that you actually want to appear in the SEs - your suggestion would not work.
Rather than have this person post a thread titled "why can't my site rank" in 3 months, why not give them some advice that might be helpful.
If you just want free space, you can get hosting from a place like Geocities and Tripod, and then buy a domain from a place like Godaddy that will 302 requests for the domain name to the hosted URL. Then you'll even save the $5. But none of your pages will be spidered as www.example.com/foo.html - they will all be in the SEs as free-hosting-site.com/user/foo.html .
All in all, even hobby site owners should consider having a paid host - because lots of peoples' hobby sites have become lucrative ventures - or at least done better than break-even.
If you host a site for 5 years on a free host, then switch to a domain later, you will never be able to recapture all your inbound links etc.
message me for a link if you need it.
We own a domain name for a project we are no longer pursuing. We have DSL and are currently hosting it on one of our computers. My husband set this up so you'll have to pardon me if I don't use the right language. We purchased a hosting service through dyndns that points the domain name to our computer. At the time, having total control over the hosting was important for this project.
In a couple weeks we are moving and will be without Internet service for a couple of weeks and thus are losing our hosting for the domain. Because the domain is listed in DMOZ and has Adsense running on it, I don't want to have the site down for those 2 weeks and risk losing my DMOZ listing & Adsense account.
Since we aren't pursing this project with the domain, we want to sell it now (I should have done this months ago...) and that is why I need hosting, but don't want to invest a lot of money into it. I certainly don't need a lot of space or traffic allottment for my for sale sign. I guess I should also explain I'm infinitely cheap. :) I realize hosting is dirt cheap these days, but I just can't personally justify spending much for something that will hopefully be temporary.
I also want to maintain one e-mail address for the domain and I noticed the $5 lifetime hosting someone else spoke of in this thread doesn't give you an e-mail address.
Probably my best bet is what I use now for hosting all my domains. It's a shared hosting service where I purchase so many slots, and can put up a domain, take it down and replace it with another. I currently have the 6 domain package and would need to upgrade to the 8 domain package if I wanted to go this route. Again, I'd be parting with the almighty buck!
Kris
Sure about that? I just sent an e-mail to postmaster@domain for the 2 undeveloped domains I have with that host, and both were bounced immediately to the e-mail forwarding address I had specified. Look closer.
