Domain name and web-hosting recommendations?

macosxmommymacosxmommy
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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
Hi all,



I am planning to create my own small-business web-site (for a home-party business) very soon. I will not actually be selling any items from my site, but will have links to the main corporation and the company catalog displayed on my site (I would make 25% profit off of any sales that were linked from my site).



I found that catalog.com has a good hosting and domain-name deal, but it really caters to PC users. Can anyone recommend a Mac friendly hosting service for someone who is an utter web design virgin (but who has aspirations to become a web design "slut"--might as well put my BA in photography and my limited Photoshop experience to work for me...). I would like to find something that is fairly basic, and not too pricey.



Someone on another board did point me towards dreamhost.com, but they do not register .us addresses, and that is what I have chosen to register.



TIA for any info.

Kirsten

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 14
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    I've been registering domain names through <a href="http://www.directnic.com/"; target="_blank">http://www.directnic.com/</a>; recently. As for hosting, I got lucky enough to put my personal stuff on a server in a back closet of an ISP I've been recommending <a href="http://www.prohosters.com/"; target="_blank">http://www.prohosters.com/</a>; for most of my clients recently though. They do a good job...
  • Reply 2 of 14
    pastapasta Posts: 112member
    check out <a href="http://www.bocahost.com"; target="_blank">www.bocahost.com</a>

    Their service has been reliable so far, no problems at all.
  • Reply 3 of 14
    macosxmommymacosxmommy Posts: 35member
    Hey, and what's the deal with the web-hosting that will be included with .mac? Since we have to keep one of our .mac e-mail addresses (it's already on business cards), we are going to have to spend the money for the once free service (grrrrr....). I would love to know what the web-hosting portion will include, but am having a tough time finding any info from Apple's site.



    Thanks,

    Kirsten
  • Reply 4 of 14
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    I don't believe it is any different than it used to be. It will still be: <a href="http://homepage.mac.com/membername/"; target="_blank">http://homepage.mac.com/membername/</a>;
  • Reply 5 of 14
    alcimedesalcimedes Posts: 5,486member
    lol, at this stage i'm not sure even Apple is sure what services will be offered through .mac. it seems as if they kind of opened up this door and waited for a reaction, then will make their changes accordingly.



    who knows though, i've looked around there and not come up with much either. you might want to try an e-mail, or call them up.



    also, i wouldn't expect that what they say they'll offer today is going to stay the same 6 months down the line. this is a fairly new enterprise for Apple, and i wouldn't be surprised to see some shifting in the near future.



    -alcimedes
  • Reply 6 of 14
    squashsquash Posts: 332member
    M3D Jack is right it hasn't changed for .Mac. You can up any site created with dreamweaver or Go LIve or whatever. You do it by putting the whole site folder you make in the sites folder for idisk. You just need to add your folder and index(main page) page to the name at the end.



    <a href="http://homepage.mac.com/membername/foldername/mainpage.html"; target="_blank">http://homepage.mac.com/membername/foldername/mainpage.html</a>;



    This link goes to nothing it's just an example
  • Reply 7 of 14
    pixelpusherpixelpusher Posts: 73member
    I would recommend <a href="http://www.speednames.com"; target="_blank">Speednames</a> for registering your domain name. You manage your account on-line - where you want your domain name to point to and which subdomains and e-mail adresses (10 for both) you want. Very flexible and easy. They also do webhosting but I'd personally go for .Mac if you don't need stuff like ASP etc.



    Good luck with your project
  • Reply 8 of 14
    stimulistimuli Posts: 564member
    Doteasy.com = free web hosting and cheap DNs
  • Reply 9 of 14
    jonathan brisbyjonathan brisby Posts: 318member
    <a href="http://www.versehost.com"; target="_blank">www.versehost.com</a>
  • Reply 10 of 14
    macosxmommymacosxmommy Posts: 35member
    I actually ended up registering a domain name with <a href="http://www.dirtcheap-domains.com/?ref=FindWhat"; target="_blank">http://www.dirtcheap-domains.com/?ref=FindWhat</a>; since their price for a .us was a fraction of everyone else's. I got 3 years for under $30.



    Now I am still looking for a web host, but I am not in a huge hurry. I think using the .mac Homepage service might be a good idea, since we already have a personal page through that. My question is, will I have to pay for each separate web-site through Homepage (like it appears we will have to do with our e-mail addresses, or drop down to one--which is a real PITA!)?



    TIA,

    Kirsten
  • Reply 11 of 14
    macosxmommymacosxmommy Posts: 35member
    This is from MacCentral.com:



    "Apple's senior director of Application Product Marketing, Joe Hayashi, confirmed today that users would be able to add up to ten email accounts to a paid .Mac subscription. "We were thinking about our family customers when we did this," Hayashi told MacCentral.



    The ten additional .Mac accounts get 5MB of storage space with no access to other .Mac services. Apple will offer the ten additional email addresses for a cost of $10 each."



    So I guess I answered one of my questions.



    Kirsten
  • Reply 12 of 14
    giaguaragiaguara Posts: 2,724member
    I was adviced today to use ttp://www.joker.com



    it gives basically the registrations.. and other stuff u need.



    So far i've mainly used the redirect kind of domains as i can have my sites hosted .. one at a university and others in some other sites...
  • Reply 13 of 14
    johnny_chromejohnny_chrome Posts: 16member
    macosxmommy: I am curious as to why you say catalog.com caters more to PC users. I have my home page hosted with them, and there's not really anything PC-centric about a unix hosting account. They are pretty good with tech support too (1 day e-mail turnaround) considering how inexpensive they are. Their POP server is a bit slow, but their web pages is fairly speedy.
  • Reply 14 of 14
    macosxmommymacosxmommy Posts: 35member
    [quote]Originally posted by johnny_chrome:

    <strong>macosxmommy: I am curious as to why you say catalog.com caters more to PC users. I have my home page hosted with them, and there's not really anything PC-centric about a unix hosting account. They are pretty good with tech support too (1 day e-mail turnaround) considering how inexpensive they are. Their POP server is a bit slow, but their web pages is fairly speedy.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    I don't neccessarily think that they are "PC-centric," but as a total novice, I kind of feel more comfortable with being hosted by a company that is more Mac specific and is very familiar with the ins and outs of OS X and mac-specific issues. I guess the problems I have had with Earthlink as our ISP (the mac-preferred ISP....) and them giving us PC directions for things, when we have asked about mac issues, has made me a bit gun-shy.
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