domain and webhosting recommendations
Oct. 28th, 2013 02:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mmegaeraHi, all, it's your non-tech-savvy idiot again...
Or maybe just tech-savvy enough to get me into a lot of trouble, but not enough to get me back out again.
Okay. I have a website (proudly hand-coded a couple of years ago, after much, much struggle and angst [g], and kept updated since). The domain name was purchased through GoDaddy, and costs me $15 a year, which I just renewed a couple of weeks ago before I realized I needed the second website. The site itself is hosted through my ISP, and costs me $10 a month on top of my regular bill. I have no memory of how I accomplished all this several years ago, except that it was ugly and frustrating and stretched my abilities pretty much to their limit. And exceedingly satisfying once it all finally worked.
For reasons I won't get into here, I really need a second website, with a different domain name. This would entail another $15 a year plus $10 a month if I do it the way I'm doing it now.
I'm told I can do this much more cheaply than I'm doing it right now, and that would be a really, really good thing. Almost $300 a year is way more than I need to be paying for this.
But I have no clue how to find a company that will provide this service at a rate I can better afford, with the amount of handholding I will need to get the domain names transferred and the files uploaded (actually, as long as they'll let me FTP the files using Windows File Manager, which is "open two windows, aim one at the files I want to move and the other to the FTP address, then drag and drop", I can do that part -- it's the setup and transfer that's over my head).
Bluehost was recommended to me, and at less than $30 a year for the whole thing for both websites they're certainly more reasonable than what I'm paying now, but when I went to ask some basic-to-me questions, it became very clear to me that they're not going to be willing/able to help me as much as I know I'm going to need to get everything moved and set up. Especially since I got cut off from the chat session before I was finished asking questions, and some of their own help webpages wouldn't load when I clicked on them.
Anyone have a webhosting company they love that can give me fast champagne help on a slow beer budget, and not get impatient with me when I politely hint that they're talking Swahili to me? I'm dubious about using GoDaddy for hosting as well as the domain name. No, I don't know why, but I am. I suspect it's the "we need to sell you a whole bunch of stuff you don't need" spiel every time I go to pay my annual bill, but maybe not.
Help?
Or maybe just tech-savvy enough to get me into a lot of trouble, but not enough to get me back out again.
Okay. I have a website (proudly hand-coded a couple of years ago, after much, much struggle and angst [g], and kept updated since). The domain name was purchased through GoDaddy, and costs me $15 a year, which I just renewed a couple of weeks ago before I realized I needed the second website. The site itself is hosted through my ISP, and costs me $10 a month on top of my regular bill. I have no memory of how I accomplished all this several years ago, except that it was ugly and frustrating and stretched my abilities pretty much to their limit. And exceedingly satisfying once it all finally worked.
For reasons I won't get into here, I really need a second website, with a different domain name. This would entail another $15 a year plus $10 a month if I do it the way I'm doing it now.
I'm told I can do this much more cheaply than I'm doing it right now, and that would be a really, really good thing. Almost $300 a year is way more than I need to be paying for this.
But I have no clue how to find a company that will provide this service at a rate I can better afford, with the amount of handholding I will need to get the domain names transferred and the files uploaded (actually, as long as they'll let me FTP the files using Windows File Manager, which is "open two windows, aim one at the files I want to move and the other to the FTP address, then drag and drop", I can do that part -- it's the setup and transfer that's over my head).
Bluehost was recommended to me, and at less than $30 a year for the whole thing for both websites they're certainly more reasonable than what I'm paying now, but when I went to ask some basic-to-me questions, it became very clear to me that they're not going to be willing/able to help me as much as I know I'm going to need to get everything moved and set up. Especially since I got cut off from the chat session before I was finished asking questions, and some of their own help webpages wouldn't load when I clicked on them.
Anyone have a webhosting company they love that can give me fast champagne help on a slow beer budget, and not get impatient with me when I politely hint that they're talking Swahili to me? I'm dubious about using GoDaddy for hosting as well as the domain name. No, I don't know why, but I am. I suspect it's the "we need to sell you a whole bunch of stuff you don't need" spiel every time I go to pay my annual bill, but maybe not.
Help?
