Two separate questions.
Web hosting
Domain registration
I found this out earlier this year when ours was about to
expire. Many companies (who host websites) will gladly register your
domain name, but then their name gets attached to it somehow as they
are resellers of the registration (I was told this not so sure how
much to believe)
I just avoided all that crap and registered with Directnic. www.directnic.com
You can register your website with them and get free web hosting space.
That is what our non-profit did and we are more than happy.
Stewart
At 04:49 PM 10/2/2007, you wrote:
I am a webmaster for a local non-profit organization that has
previously had its web host supplied to the organization by a third
party. That party charges the organization for hosting but does not
reveal any details at all, such as the bandwidth supplied or
used. I'm thinking that the organization might be better off
selecting its own web host, but I am a novice when it comes to
selecting an appropriate host. Also, the non-profit's web address
is currently owned by the third party. (I am a member of the
non-profit who volunteers to be a webmaster.)
The organization is small and almost all of its bandwidth is used
for outgoing web traffic. The storage requirement is well under 100
megabytes and my guesstimate of outgoing traffic would be 4
Gigabytes per month peak with much lower amount during some months.
Googleing for web hosts, I see quite a wide range of charges for a
seemingly suitable amount of service, ranging from $12 per year
(3iX) to $80 per year (Mailaka). The higher figure is less than
half the charge that the non-profit currently pays.
While I understand the basics of web hosts, I don't know the details
or pitfalls that may lurk.
Any advice to help me decide whether to switch hosts and how to
select a new host?
Rev. Stewart A. Marshall
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Prince of Peace
Ozark, AL SL 82
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