Comments on: Comment Friday for June 20th

By: Matthew Henrickson

Matthew Henrickson — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 04:50:43 +0000

I chose mercutiom who had a great comment

By: Mindrec

Mindrec — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:41:09 +0000

Hosting: 1osc (Os Commerce). 8$ mo. Frequent updates to php and sql. Yes, the are my domain registrar, too (but I don’t get a free domain name with it… I pay extra). I’ve recommended them to 2 other people and have 2 accounts there myself. Yes, we’ve had problems (insecure scripts)… and they won’t install special server applications on “shared” hosting. I wanted to move up to “my own” hosted server; but, come to find out it is a “virtual” server (several on the same computer just like shared but with some sort of firewall or partition software)? Anyone know anything about this?

By: Affiliate Marketing Blog

Affiliate Marketing Blog — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:12:39 +0000

I host ALL of my sites at Hostgator and register them ALL with godaddy.com

By: reycovirt

reycovirt — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:00:37 +0000

someone just offered a free blogsite to me…

By: Stefen Ng

Stefen Ng — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 02:09:23 +0000

I only use blogger right now. I heard that blogs are good in search engine besides its free. I also have tried yahoo geocities’ free account but I abandoned it too much ads

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:26:01 +0000

I use Powweb for my host as well as the registar for my site.

Although with my new sites I’m using name.com for the domains, much cheaper.

Steve

By: Germz

Germz — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:59:13 +0000

This is a great Idea to get comments I might have to implement this myself.

By: The Webloglearner

The Webloglearner — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:00:18 +0000

I am still using blogger as my host which is free but i bought a custom domain from them. Then, i waited for three days as required and it was not available. i saw that 404 stuff and when i reverted back to blogspot, i could not go back to my domain!

I hate it! i want to be transferred with my own host and domain, maybe outside blogger.

As for one advice by mercutom above, it is very helpful, not only to matthew but also to us who read comments.

By: Matthew Henrickson

Matthew Henrickson — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:35:38 +0000

great comments, I have thought about a server, but I’ve never done that so this is good enough for now.

I use Godaddy for my domains

By: mercutiom

mercutiom — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:29:58 +0000

I happen to work for a hosting company (though I’m not allowed to say which.) Anyway, I can tell you for sure that a domain registrar is NOT the same as a hosting company, in fact many hosting companies are resellers for actual domain registrar companies (i.e. dot5hosting used Tucows as a registrar.) I by my domain names with IPOWER because they’re cheap there, and then host with my company because it’s free.

As for your little adult content issue, I see you have a good number of hosted sites. Have you considered going to a Virtual Private or Dedicated server? It’s usually cheaper to have one of those than pay for hosting on several sites, and the Terms of Service and Authorized Use Policies are usually more lenient (since you’re technically hosting yourself.)

If you are considering that, may I suggest theplanet.com for a good, well managed dedicated server. (I’ve used them in the past and they’re great.)