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Message # 23917.2.1.2

Subject: Re: web space

Date: Mon 31/07/06 22:55:28 GMT

Name: Telcontar

Email: mrnemesis@ntlworld.com

Website: http://telcontar.net/

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Me? ICDSoft -- http://www.icdsoft.com/ -- they just increased my account to 20 GB transfer and 1 GB space as of this morning =) I think the first year is $65 (includes domain) and $40 for subsequent years. Dreamhost are probably one of the most recommended hosts, http://www.dreamhost.com/ and WIR seems to like Ix, although he has a very bandwidth-intensive site in mind.

I don't understand why you'd need to retype anything. As long as you have an FTP account with your existing site, your new host -- if it's a paid host -- will often provide a feature to transfer all the files over for you, else you could FTP them all up to the new site manually from your hard drive or, if you have a program that can do this and the patience to fiddle with settings, perform a manual site-to-site transfer ("FXP" to everyone not in the know, i.e. all the faux "leet" doods).

Re-typing is only a problem if you're using a scripting language or technology not supported at the new site and you have to script the site. Or, under extreme suffering, going from a root location (/) to a subdirectory (/GaryKay/ or /~gary/ for example) where root-relative links in the HTML will all fail. Even then, you can solve this with a few search-and-replaces with any good text editor (i.e. not Notepad)

If you have a crappy account like Geoshitties or Angelfire and you don't have a local copy of the site (and there's no provision for one), it gets tougher though :)

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Re: Re: web space

By Gary Kay - garykay@sisna.com Mon 31/07/06 20:20:13 GMT

Website:

50 megs is what I currently have online, bandwidth is more than adequate for my needs, I add material as I can and it's nice not having to delete older files for newer files, the true definition of an archive. What service do you use? The item of most concern is having to move files and retype all my code. I appreciate the info though!

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Re: web space

By Telcontar - mrnemesis@ntlworld.com Sun 30/07/06 08:38:03 GMT

Website:

What are your site requirements? How much space are you using? How much data transfer per month? $10/month now is quite a lot, it suggests your site is very popular if you're paying for what it's using up. I think my own site is $3.33 a month, that includes 15 GB transfer (and I only use 2!) and 750 MB space. And I don't think that's the best deal around, but I'm loyal to my host. So you may find that you can go cheaper. Advantage -- control over your site and no pesky ads :) I'd rather pay a bit of money than be a freeloader, and I get rewarded with delights like the use of .htaccess to fine tune my site =)

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web space

By Gary Kay - garykay@sisna.com Sat 29/07/06 22:20:09 GMT

Website: A Wetting Album

I have a webpage "A Wetting Album" that costs me $9.95 a month. While I have little time to update it I certainly have even less time to move elements of the site but I'd like to know if others have found ample freespace, even divided up, so I might free myself of the burden of paying for something that offers me no obvious benefits. I have 20 megs currently free, I can possibly squeeze half of whats left into another Tripod account but fear they might not like me having 3 accounts for free. Plus the ads are rampant. I'd like the thoughts of others on this matter, thank you:)

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