Making a website???

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I want to make a website, and since most of you have sites, I had some questions. What is the best hosting site? My friend recommends hostdone.com, but I am looking at all options. If I used hostdone, I could have 2 years for about $75. Are there any other sites with similar rates?

Just basically looking for any opinions on this subject.

--Mike Jones
 
I personally use godaddy.com, they have a few good tools for putting a site together and IIRC they also have a design service for a fee. My site costs about $45 a year but I do all my own stuff (it is a wordpress blog, not a eCommerce site). If you are looking to sell online, look at getting someone to design a site for you. Nothing turns me off like a hokey website.
 
Back when I was involved in a few websites, I used 1and1.com for hosting, and they provided a free domain. It was pretty cheap if I remember correctly, something like $5/month.
 
a friend that is a pro developer recommends Lunar Pages. somewhere around $10 a month. he says they're ultra reliable.
 
I use Webquebec but it is in French only. Cost about 120$ per year. I know I could find cheaper out there but the service I have been getting for the past 10 years makes it worthwhile.

Pad
 
check out webs.com, it is a free web hosting with simple do it yourself tools, and you can upgrade to a paid site with your own domain name. Dale
 
I recommend Atlanta Virtual....Alex Whetsell is the owner, and has a niche in hosting knife type websites. He is also the owner of Knifekits.com. Their package includes a website building tool that is easy to learn and with it you can have a basic website up and running quickly.

Be wary of those "bargain basement" web hosting services. In my experience, with most of them you become nothing more than a number on an account, and getting help with issues is like finding hen's teeth. Early on I went through three different web hosts, trying to find a bargain.....I dropped each one within the first 30 days because I either could never talk to a real person, or they were never any help in solving my issues,

When I got to Atlanta Virtual, I found someone who understands the needs of knifemakers, and the fact that most of us are much better at building knives than we are at building/maintaining websites. Check them out, you won't be disappointed.
http://www.atlantavirtual.com/

I've been with Alex for several years now, and any time I've ever had an issue (its usually been me not understanding something), its been resovled within a day. At one time there was a weeks outage, that was the fault of some big server on the east coast crashing, and even though it wasn't Atlanta Virtual's fault, Alex offered a years worth of FREE web hosting for the trouble. Trust me, none of the others would do that.
 
I run the NC Custom Knifemaker's Guild website and we use AV. We've had pretty decent luck with them.

My personal website is hosted on Dreamhost and I a quite happy with my service there also. It is cheaper and you don't get top-rate support, so it's a trade-off between expense and service.

My few experiences with AV support have lead me to believe it was all outsourced. I never had any real trouble with them other than the outage mentioned by Ed, and I do wish that there was better communication during that time. Alex did offer us a free year of hosting also, which I thought was quite a nice gesture, but I'd have taken better communication over free service.
 
I like Netfirms.com because they seem to be reliable.

For about $10.00 per year you register your own domain name and get a decent amount of free page space and email address but your page will have some advertising at the top unless you pay for the upgraded business packages.
 
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