Re: Domain/website hosting
Hi Daniel Thanks very much for all the info you sent me, I will have a good look at them all and think about what and how I need to proceed. In regard to domain rego and hosting, are there any issues with transferring from one company to another? For example, are there costs associated with transfer? Your web hosting sounds very reasonable and comprehensive. I have heard a number of people speak in glowing terms of Wordpress and also seen some photography sites that use it. I would need a site that incorporates images, blog, and an order and payment system. Can I contact you off list if necessary Daniel? Many thanks Chris On 15/09/2012, at 12:19 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: Hi Chris Web In a Box's info can be found here :- http://webinabox.com.au I also do web hosting and domain Registration as well through my subsidiary business (HostingServicesWA), My domains are $45 for 2 years. You can see all the info here, for Domain Registration and Hosting:- http://www.hostingserviceswa.com.au/ Wordpress has some good themes for Photography sites. Also Sandvox or RapidWeaver are both quite good as well. (Wordpress is free). You can even still do it in iWeb (though fairly limited to an extent now), but would be enough to get your started at least. All these can upload to most hosting services without a problem. Hope either of those help. Kind regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Apple** On 14/09/2012, at 12:46 PM, Chris Burton c...@it.net.au wrote: Hi Muggers I recall someone recently (in the last few weeks I think) sent a post regarding hosting and suggested Web in a Box. I cant find the email anywhere so am wondering if you can help? I had to ask Westnet (where it presently resides) if my domain name was still current and they said yes as it was on 'Auto Update' for payment every 2 years prior to expiry at $88. I think web in a box was quite a bit less for memory, and the person who posted I think gave them a good rap? I am beginning the process of having a web site for my photography and wouldnt know where to start as there seems so many possibilities. I have seen many very good photography sites online that have given me ideas but I need some direction on this if anyone can help? Any good links or other info I can check out locally? Best regards to all Chris Christopher L.K. Burton Director Western Whale Research PO Box 1076 Dunsborough WA 6281 Mobile: 0419 199 120 Email: c...@it.net.au -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20120914/43c63dba/attachment.htm -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Domain/website hosting
Hi Chris No worries on that info, happy to help out. There are no (major) issues in changing Domain Registrations and hosting. If you have things hosted or running already (email etc), it can be a bit of a hiccup, but these are less and less these days. Can be a bit of slight downtime, but this varies from place to place. When I've done change over for clients I tend to do it all late at night (well, early hours of the morning) to alleviate the amount of down time. Most places say it can take 24-48 hours for a site to change to propagate around the internet (basically cache sites update that means). But when I've changed sites, I've found it's as little as 5 minutes locally or so. Then it just takes a bit longer to change around the world as cached versions get updated. But if a site moves or changes (or gets updated), this all happens behind the scenes, so generally runs smoothly. Changing a Domain Registrar is pretty easy too. Once activated one registrar just asks the other for the Domain Name. And it swaps over. All pretty easy. Not much done on the clients end, all done from the middle man or business. I've done quite a few of them, and no hiccups with any of them. So all pretty easy. Yes Wordpress is pretty popular for a lot of sites and people. I know quite a few people that run it and love it. One of my good friends runs his photography site through Wordpress and it's very impressive! And yes, they can certainly run a lot of things from it. Plenty to work with anyway. Lots to start with and it can grow as you need it to, which is very good. Happy to help off list if I can depending on the queries, but no problems at all. Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone 4s --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Apple** On 17/09/2012, at 9:21 PM, Chris Burton c...@it.net.au wrote: Hi Daniel Thanks very much for all the info you sent me, I will have a good look at them all and think about what and how I need to proceed. In regard to domain rego and hosting, are there any issues with transferring from one company to another? For example, are there costs associated with transfer? Your web hosting sounds very reasonable and comprehensive. I have heard a number of people speak in glowing terms of Wordpress and also seen some photography sites that use it. I would need a site that incorporates images, blog, and an order and payment system. Can I contact you off list if necessary Daniel? Many thanks Chris On 15/09/2012, at 12:19 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: Hi Chris Web In a Box's info can be found here :- http://webinabox.com.au I also do web hosting and domain Registration as well through my subsidiary business (HostingServicesWA), My domains are $45 for 2 years. You can see all the info here, for Domain Registration and Hosting:- http://www.hostingserviceswa.com.au/ Wordpress has some good themes for Photography sites. Also Sandvox or RapidWeaver are both quite good as well. (Wordpress is free). You can even still do it in iWeb (though fairly limited to an extent now), but would be enough to get your started at least. All these can upload to most hosting services without a problem. Hope either of those help. Kind regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Apple** On 14/09/2012, at 12:46 PM, Chris Burton c...@it.net.au wrote: Hi Muggers I recall someone recently (in the last few weeks I think) sent a post regarding hosting and suggested Web in a Box. I cant find the email anywhere so am wondering if you can help? I had to ask Westnet (where it presently resides) if my domain name was still current and they said yes as it was on 'Auto Update' for payment every 2 years prior to expiry at $88. I think web in a box was quite a bit less for memory, and the person who posted I think gave them a good rap? I am beginning the process of having a web site for my photography and wouldnt know where to start as there seems so many possibilities. I have seen many very good photography sites online that have given me ideas but I need some direction on this if anyone can help? Any good links or other info I can check out locally? Best regards to all Chris Christopher L.K. Burton Director Western Whale Research PO Box 1076 Dunsborough WA 6281 Mobile: 0419 199 120 Email: c...@it.net.au -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20120914/43c63dba/attachment.htm -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe
Re: Domain/website hosting
Hi Chris Web In a Box's info can be found here :- http://webinabox.com.au I also do web hosting and domain Registration as well through my subsidiary business (HostingServicesWA), My domains are $45 for 2 years. You can see all the info here, for Domain Registration and Hosting:- http://www.hostingserviceswa.com.au/ Wordpress has some good themes for Photography sites. Also Sandvox or RapidWeaver are both quite good as well. (Wordpress is free). You can even still do it in iWeb (though fairly limited to an extent now), but would be enough to get your started at least. All these can upload to most hosting services without a problem. Hope either of those help. Kind regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Apple** On 14/09/2012, at 12:46 PM, Chris Burton c...@it.net.au wrote: Hi Muggers I recall someone recently (in the last few weeks I think) sent a post regarding hosting and suggested Web in a Box. I cant find the email anywhere so am wondering if you can help? I had to ask Westnet (where it presently resides) if my domain name was still current and they said yes as it was on 'Auto Update' for payment every 2 years prior to expiry at $88. I think web in a box was quite a bit less for memory, and the person who posted I think gave them a good rap? I am beginning the process of having a web site for my photography and wouldnt know where to start as there seems so many possibilities. I have seen many very good photography sites online that have given me ideas but I need some direction on this if anyone can help? Any good links or other info I can check out locally? Best regards to all Chris Christopher L.K. Burton Director Western Whale Research PO Box 1076 Dunsborough WA 6281 Mobile: 0419 199 120 Email: c...@it.net.au -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20120914/43c63dba/attachment.htm -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Domain/website hosting
Hi Muggers I recall someone recently (in the last few weeks I think) sent a post regarding hosting and suggested Web in a Box. I cant find the email anywhere so am wondering if you can help? I had to ask Westnet (where it presently resides) if my domain name was still current and they said yes as it was on 'Auto Update' for payment every 2 years prior to expiry at $88. I think web in a box was quite a bit less for memory, and the person who posted I think gave them a good rap? I am beginning the process of having a web site for my photography and wouldnt know where to start as there seems so many possibilities. I have seen many very good photography sites online that have given me ideas but I need some direction on this if anyone can help? Any good links or other info I can check out locally? Best regards to all Chris Christopher L.K. Burton Director Western Whale Research PO Box 1076 Dunsborough WA 6281 Mobile: 0419 199 120 Email: c...@it.net.au -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20120914/43c63dba/attachment.htm -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: getting a domain/website hosting?
On 10/02/2005, at 4:51 PM, Mark Secker wrote: spoilt as I have been by having web space at work I am somewhat uneducated about the ways and wherefores of commercial/org domain registration. Whats the sort of cost involved in initial registration, annual renewal, support etc what is the best company to go through to get a Australian (.com.au) and/or US domain (.com) name registered? I will need a reasonable amount of storage (say 500MB+) for putting up pictures (both photo's and graphic) and some MP3s (my own compositions) but not expecting overly large traffic. Also thinking about having a couple of extra domain names that would simply be redirects to my real site or more specifically to a URL other than the root level of the site. So say, hypothetically: www.marxzmusic.com would redirect to www.marksecker.com/music/downloads and www.marxzart.com redirect to www.marksecker.com/art In my experience the US companies are still miles ahead in terms of service, cost and offering. For example I'm with midPhase www.midphase.com and this is what they have: Unmetered bandwidth (up to 60GB if a photography/download site) 3G disk space 24x7 support -- very responsive, within 1-2 hours most of the time Can install various PHP scripts Cpanel etc. Free domain name for life, etc. All that for US$7.95 per month. Gave me serious pause about upgrading my ADSL line to host my own websites with prices like that. Some of the other good ones are LunarPages, Hostony etc. Google for web host review and look for the under $10 web hosts. Cheers, Glen Low --- pixelglow software | simply brilliant stuff www.pixelglow.com
getting a domain/website hosting?
spoilt as I have been by having web space at work I am somewhat uneducated about the ways and wherefores of commercial/org domain registration. Whats the sort of cost involved in initial registration, annual renewal, support etc what is the best company to go through to get a Australian (.com.au) and/or US domain (.com) name registered? I will need a reasonable amount of storage (say 500MB+) for putting up pictures (both photo's and graphic) and some MP3s (my own compositions) but not expecting overly large traffic. Also thinking about having a couple of extra domain names that would simply be redirects to my real site or more specifically to a URL other than the root level of the site. So say, hypothetically: www.marxzmusic.com would redirect to www.marksecker.com/music/downloads and www.marxzart.com redirect to www.marksecker.com/art -- ~ Mark Secker Computer Support Officer ph#6488 1855 (ECEL) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Western Australia - CRICOS Provider No. 00126G ~ Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible. - Miguel de Unamuno It takes an idiot to do cool things that's why it's cool - Haruhara Haruka (FLCL) http://ecel-mark.ecel.uwa.edu.au/~marksecker/index.htm (sometimes works)
Re: getting a domain/website hosting?
Hi Mark, http://www.ilisys.com.au Local company and this website will answer all. On 10 Feb 2005, at 4:51 PM, Mark Secker wrote: spoilt as I have been by having web space at work I am somewhat uneducated about the ways and wherefores of commercial/org domain registration. Whats the sort of cost involved in initial registration, annual renewal, support etc what is the best company to go through to get a Australian (.com.au) and/or US domain (.com) name registered? I will need a reasonable amount of storage (say 500MB+) for putting up pictures (both photo's and graphic) and some MP3s (my own compositions) but not expecting overly large traffic. Also thinking about having a couple of extra domain names that would simply be redirects to my real site or more specifically to a URL other than the root level of the site. So say, hypothetically: www.marxzmusic.com would redirect to www.marksecker.com/music/downloads and www.marxzart.com redirect to www.marksecker.com/art -- ~ Mark Secker Computer Support Officer ph#6488 1855 (ECEL) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Western Australia - CRICOS Provider No. 00126G ~ Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible. - Miguel de Unamuno It takes an idiot to do cool things that's why it's cool - Haruhara Haruka (FLCL) http://ecel-mark.ecel.uwa.edu.au/~marksecker/index.htm (sometimes works) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro Cheers! Rob Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is the world which makes known to us our belonging to a subject-communtiy, especially the existence in the world of the manufactured objects. Sartre.
Re: getting a domain/website hosting?
IMHO, go with a domain name company that offers a decent web interface for maintenance, and doesn't make all the domain names you want for $1! offers. My experience has been at the other end (Melbourne IT - who seem to really overcharge) - but there's been comments on this list about cheap providers who go under, taking your domain name with them. I'm testing out NetRegistry at the moment - they seem pretty good. Cheers, Tobes. On 10/02/2005, at 4:51 PM, Mark Secker wrote: spoilt as I have been by having web space at work I am somewhat uneducated about the ways and wherefores of commercial/org domain registration. Whats the sort of cost involved in initial registration, annual renewal, support etc what is the best company to go through to get a Australian (.com.au) and/or US domain (.com) name registered? I will need a reasonable amount of storage (say 500MB+) for putting up pictures (both photo's and graphic) and some MP3s (my own compositions) but not expecting overly large traffic. Also thinking about having a couple of extra domain names that would simply be redirects to my real site or more specifically to a URL other than the root level of the site. So say, hypothetically: www.marxzmusic.com would redirect to www.marksecker.com/music/downloads and www.marxzart.com redirect to www.marksecker.com/art -- ~ Mark Secker Computer Support Officer ph#6488 1855 (ECEL) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Western Australia - CRICOS Provider No. 00126G ~ Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible. - Miguel de Unamuno It takes an idiot to do cool things that's why it's cool - Haruhara Haruka (FLCL) http://ecel-mark.ecel.uwa.edu.au/~marksecker/index.htm (sometimes works) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro
Re: getting a domain/website hosting?
Mark Secker wrote: spoilt as I have been by having web space at work I am somewhat uneducated about the ways and wherefores of commercial/org domain registration. Whats the sort of cost involved in initial registration, annual renewal, support etc what is the best company to go through to get a Australian (.com.au) and/or US domain (.com) name registered? I will need a reasonable amount of storage (say 500MB+) for putting up pictures (both photo's and graphic) and some MP3s (my own compositions) but not expecting overly large traffic. Also thinking about having a couple of extra domain names that would simply be redirects to my real site or more specifically to a URL other than the root level of the site. So say, hypothetically: www.marxzmusic.com would redirect to www.marksecker.com/music/downloads and www.marxzart.com redirect to www.marksecker.com/art You are talking two completely different things. #1 Domain name registration, this can be done through a registar like iinet etc (most ISP's do it) for au and through one of the USA ones like dyndns (not only do they redirect, they can sell you .com .net. org etc) #2 Web hosting, here you have tonnes of options: You could do it yourself with ADSL / Cable (I host the local primary school, my own website, + 3 other low volume websites, all on a 512K down 128K up link. (not the fastest, but most people do not know the difference)) You can pay someone like Highway1 to host your site (check out their co location and webhosting fees (sometimes it is cheaper to provide your own box, and co locate) HTH Kat. -- --- K.A.Q. Electronics Website: www.kaqelectronics.dyndns.org IM: Yahoo: PinkyDwaggy MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For Everything Electronics Phone: 0419 923 731 --- -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.6 - Release Date: 7/02/2005
Re: getting a domain/website hosting?
We have recently co-located our servers in QV1 with a seriously fast pipe to the net and are offering domain, web and mail hosting as well as scripted backups. We are a registrar agent too. Check out http://domains.mactherapy.com/ for pricing and details. Excuse the ugly website, it's being re-skinned soon. Hope you don't mind the self promotion but it seems relevant to this thread. Queries to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cheers Rob From: Kathy Quinlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 17:28:15 +0800 To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: Re: getting a domain/website hosting? Mark Secker wrote: spoilt as I have been by having web space at work I am somewhat uneducated about the ways and wherefores of commercial/org domain registration. Whats the sort of cost involved in initial registration, annual renewal, support etc what is the best company to go through to get a Australian (.com.au) and/or US domain (.com) name registered? I will need a reasonable amount of storage (say 500MB+) for putting up pictures (both photo's and graphic) and some MP3s (my own compositions) but not expecting overly large traffic. Also thinking about having a couple of extra domain names that would simply be redirects to my real site or more specifically to a URL other than the root level of the site. So say, hypothetically: www.marxzmusic.com would redirect to www.marksecker.com/music/downloads and www.marxzart.com redirect to www.marksecker.com/art You are talking two completely different things. #1 Domain name registration, this can be done through a registar like iinet etc (most ISP's do it) for au and through one of the USA ones like dyndns (not only do they redirect, they can sell you .com .net. org etc) #2 Web hosting, here you have tonnes of options: You could do it yourself with ADSL / Cable (I host the local primary school, my own website, + 3 other low volume websites, all on a 512K down 128K up link. (not the fastest, but most people do not know the difference)) You can pay someone like Highway1 to host your site (check out their co location and webhosting fees (sometimes it is cheaper to provide your own box, and co locate) HTH Kat. -- --- K.A.Q. Electronics Website: www.kaqelectronics.dyndns.org IM: Yahoo: PinkyDwaggy MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For Everything Electronics Phone: 0419 923 731 --- -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.6 - Release Date: 7/02/2005 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro
