No-cost web hosting for home business

2011-02-02 Thread Rob Hasselbaum
Hi all. Can anyone recommend a company that offers very basic web hosting for a home business at no cost? I have experience with several large hosting providers, but the features they offer are overkill and too expensive for this project. All that's really needed here is a single HTML page with a f

Re: No-cost web hosting for home business

2011-02-02 Thread Daniel Hedlund
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 13:23, Rob Hasselbaum wrote: > Hi all. Can anyone recommend a company that offers very basic web hosting > for a home business at no cost? I have experience with several large hosting > providers, but the features they offer are overkill and too expensive for > this project.

Re: No-cost web hosting for home business

2011-02-02 Thread Jack Coats
I use google sites ( sites.google.com ) for several sites, for me, our church, some NPO's, etc. It is free (for small sites), and you can use their default name, or do something similar like I do. I use godaddy and forward the domain to the google site. It works nicely for me. The base name was

RE: No-cost web hosting for home business

2011-02-02 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: discuss-boun...@blu.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@blu.org] On Behalf > Of Rob Hasselbaum > > Hi all. Can anyone recommend a company that offers very basic web hosting Google apps. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mail

Re: No-cost web hosting for home business

2011-02-02 Thread MBR
That's great until you have to get your data back out. I recently had to move a client from Google Sites to a more traditional server environment. It wasn't that hard for me because I've been a Unix developer for decades, and I'm pretty proficient with Emacs. So I spent some quality time wit

RE: No-cost web hosting for home business

2011-02-03 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: discuss-boun...@blu.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@blu.org] On Behalf > Of MBR > > That's great until you have to get your data back out. I recently had > to move a client from Google Sites to a more traditional server Isn't the same thing true of all free web hosts? Free was a requirement

Re: No-cost web hosting for home business

2011-02-03 Thread Tom Metro
Rob Hasselbaum wrote: > Can anyone recommend a company that offers very basic web hosting > for a home business at no cost? Not what I'd call basic, but it is limited: Amazon EC2 Micro Instance, which is free for one year. http://aws.amazon.com/free/ Whether that's practical for a one-page stati