New here + a couple of ?'s

[erinsbaby]

Hi all, First to the point: Has anybody here ever used http://www.digitalibiz.com ?

I have my own domain via Namezero, and recently got the name outright. It's just for my personal/hobby site, but I need a lot of space - which they offer. They have 250megs for $12/month, along with a whole bunch of other stuff. I know that's probably a lot of $ for a personal site - but I've worked hard on my stuff & I'm tired of all the freebies going down. I don't want to lose my site altogether b/c of it.

Since I was just using the Namezero domain as a redirect, I was confused at first about the whole transfering thing - but now I think I got it down.

I'm just looking for a fast, reliable, inexpensive place to keep my site. I don't want something that's going to be disappearing in a couple of months.

Any pro's or con's on http://www.digitalibiz.com ?

Thanks in advance :)

Erin
http://www.erinsbaby.com
babymoejoe@qwest.net

[meow]

Sorry, haven't used digitalibiz. Just wanted to say hello and welcome. As you understand I'm the nice guy around here. :D

[mozd3v]

Hi ErinsBaby ...

Just a suggestion for you - I had a look at your website (with you 'under renovations' page) ...

Have you thought about maybe getting a broadband connection at your home and hosting the site yourself? I noticed you're out of work at the moment - BUT, it would be a good idea when you get sorted out.

You'd have unlimited webspace (e.g. as much hard drive space as you could spare) and your bandwidth would only be limited by your connection type... Cable/Road Running 300kbps+ and ADSL/DSL with speeds up to 1.5mbit. Nice.

There are so many Web Server applications - around and many of them are so simple to manage it wouldn't be a chore. You may actually learn something along the way as well... You'd have unrestricted control of your domain and website and your Hosting Cost and Internet Access cost would be one in the same.

AnalogX (www.analogx.com) has a HTTPD - simplest I've ever seen, it is limited in someways (e.g. it won't do server side includes) but its simple and easy to use.

Anyway, just a suggestion - drop me an email if you want to talk more about it or post here. I'd be glad to give you feedback and idea's.

moz.

[erinsbaby]

Thank you both for your replies. I did go ahead and sign up with Digitalbiz.com. I don't think I'm ready to be running my own server, even though my DH would probably like it. :) I will be employed on Monday - through an agency, and I just hope it turns out to be a permanent one. The only reason I could afford to purchase anything is b/c my former employer gave me a fat severence ;) Hopefully I'll have my site up & running by Monday. I had to redo all the graphics & completely rebuild the entire thing b/c NBCi wouldn't let me access via FTP. Been trying for 2 weeks and still can't get in. Oh, well...I'm almost done anyway.

Thanks again for your help! I'm glad I found this board - nice and informative :)

Erin

[Bruce]

Originally posted by mozd3v
Cable/Road Running 300kbps+ and ADSL/DSL with speeds up to 1.5mbit. Nice.
Wow! If you can get an upstream of 1.5Mb with dsl your lucky. The upstream in my area is capped at 96k...

[mozd3v]

Couple things...

1) Your in the US, I'm in Australia - this different performance.
2) I said 1.5mbit... not mb. There are 8mbits in a 1mb... meaning 1.5mbits = 187kbps. mbits is the REAL term for dealing in bandwidth.
3) I said ADSL not DSL - major difference. ADSL/HDSL technologies allow a completely different infrastructure and asyncronious transmission - meaning no latency due to local node transmissions (LNT's).

moz.

[mozd3v]

Just noticed you said a 96k cap? ... Ouch. What provider? Road Runner in Florida are still piping a min. of 180kbps to an IIS have at a friends house. In that case - its a regular account with the joy's of NAT/IPChains to cover hosting side..

moz.

[Bruce]

While we're at this...

Mb=megabits
MB=megabytes