That looks like a hosted blogging service, like blogger or typepad. I need a host for my email.
As far as I can tell from when I was doing a similar search, your choices are affordable, established, free of the hassles of having root/colo, or devoid of extraneous Web 2.0 "features",: pick two.
Congruence. I was going for comity, and couldn't think of something better.
Is this the each-comment-less-helpful-than-the-last contest?
Well, if it is, I got this bitch covered.
I highly recommend oneworldhosting.com. I've used them for 5+ websites I've started up over the past several years. Best customer service in the business - not that it's need very often, but a real human always answers the phone and the problem is usually solved within 5 minutes.
Well, despite other people's well-reported issues with Dreamhost, it's posed no real problems for me over the past year that I've had my site with them.
Thanks, Tony, but am I just totally screwed here? OWH offers 2GB of storage for $42/month. That's a lot! I was hoping to pay $15 and am willing to pay as much as $20 for something somehow fantastic.
I think even Ben would get tired of all the "Ben w-lfs-n is so gay" jokes.
And Labs constantly asking you what you are wearing.
I'm always wearing the same thing, remember, Becks?
A birthday suit isn't a real suit, you know.
What about....Media Temple? You could get that grid you've always wanted for $20 a month.
I'm always wearing the same thing, remember, Becks?
This. Except on high holy days.
I liked Media Temple. Had they been able to handle our load, I would have been happy there.
Had they been able to handle our load
That sounds so dirty.
The possibility that it isn't dirty is just a polite fiction.
The possibility that it isn't dirty is just a polite fiction.
What is the Catholic Church?
I actually couldn't keep your data online reliably, because we have a cheapo router that routinely craps out. It's quite frustrating.
Thank you, Ken Jennings.
I use hostgator and have never had any problems, I have even been able to reach tech support when I had a couple of questions. They also seem to fit your pricing ideals.
I've had service with pair.net for about six years, and have had no problems whatsoever. Not sure about price and storage limits.
1and1. I recently switched there from TCH and have been happy thus far.
If you don't mind splitting your email and storage functions, use Google Domain Apps for your email (ie, GMail client under your domain name) and Amazon Simple Storage Service to keep your data. The Google services are free and the Amazon service is $0.15 per GB per month for storage, plus $0.20 per month per GB transfered. If you don't move your data around all that much, it could fit your needs for less that $1 per month.
P.S. There appears to be a sale, so it is teh cheapz0rs. Like, well below your $15/mo. Check it out. I moved on recommendation from a good friend who has hosted his band website with them from years.
The only thing I don't like about 1and1 is they don't use cPanel, but instead their own administration panel which is a little funky and takes a bit of a learning curve. Nothing major enough to keep me from using them, though.
Handy link in case you're a lazy ass like me.
Why don't you want Site5? That's what I use, and I'm happy with them.
All the people wondering why not service X, bear in mind that the blog has had a variety of hosts over time.
If I may be so bold as to speak for ogged.
Okay, got it. Price might be an issue with Site5 as well.
Why don't you just use pencil and paper like normal people do, ogged?
Do you use textdrive, Kier/an? It looks like just what I'm looking for, provided that it's reliable.
(As for the sites I don't want, SB is right: they're all previous hosts for Unfogged, and they were fine for a while, but eventually frustrated me for one reason or another, which is why I'm looking to move up a bit in price for something more reliable. Actually, dreamhost never hosted the site, but I've heard too many horror stories.)
Google Domain apps seems very cool in many ways, but there's as yet no good and reliable way to upload existing mail to gmail (I used Gmail Loader with some success, but it's really just a kludge).
Thanks for the suggestions, folks.
Google Domain apps seems very cool in many ways, but there's as yet no good and reliable way to upload existing mail to gmail (I used Gmail Loader with some success, but it's really just a kludge).
You could use one of those apps that lets you mount your gmail as a networked filesystem and just copy everything over.
The one I've used (GSpace (if we're talking about the same kind of thing)) adds data to the "subject" line, which isn't something I want. Maybe there's another one that's cleaner.
Anyway, I'm not sure how I'd move things over as email.
Thanks. Still not sure how I'd get my email uploaded as email.
I'm with Becks here. Pair is fantastically reliable if all you want is email and a personal site. It doesn't do blogging -- or at least MT -- very well: I suspect this is the result of deliberate policy either to force people to spend more on dedicated servers or to use the shared server resources for other things. But I kept sites there for about six years without any reliability problems worth noticing, or any loss of email. Telephone support was available and helpful. Also, for not much money, you get shell access and can waste hours and hours playing with FreeBSD.
werdna - my Pair suggestion was me being a little bitch. They were the previous Unfogged host and we left there bitter about the entire experience. There's no way Ogged is going to Pair.
Speaking of hosting matters, is anybody able to reach any of the blogspot blogs, or did the IT group here at work just wise up and block my access to that domain?
51: I'm having trouble with a few but not all blogspot blogs.
Yeah, I can't seem to load multiple blogspot blogs.
Ah, you're right. Certain ones are accessible.
From blogger.com: "Due to maintenance, old Blogger is not available right now. We are also not accepting new accounts at this time. Please check back later today."
Why don't I just jump on that wordpress bandwagon already? Stupid blogger.
"scheduled outage for old Blogger next Tuesday, January 9th, from 7:45am-9:45am PST."
Is this an attempt to persuade people to switch to Beta?
My handle has ten letters, ten, which is five, the number of the devil's pentagram, times two, the number worshipped by the Manichean heretics; or six, the number of the Beast, plus four, which is...um, two plus two! The very square of the Manichean heresy!
Four is not only two plus two, it is two times two and two to the power of two, making six twos in all -- the number of the Beast again!
One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do. Two can be as sad as one, it's the loneliest number since the number one.
(5 x 2) = (6 + 2 x 2 x 2) has been determined to be a terrorist equation, a signal of the most nefarious intentions.
You are all banned, and unleash the hounds.
You got an extra "X 2" in there somehow.
I'm currently using ipowerweb.com, and have been pleased with their uptime.
