[PLUG] Web Hosting

Nat Taylor bioborg at gmail.com
Wed Dec 3 05:48:55 UTC 2014


I second NearlyFreeSpeech ( I use them as a registrar, but their pay for
what you use hosting mode might turn out cheap for you. )  Same with gandi,
great registrar bet their hosting is OK.

And I add greengeeks for carbon neutral hosting, JaguarPC is solid, and
lots of people use 1&1 or siteground
 On Dec 2, 2014 5:21 PM, "Tim Wescott" <tim at wescottdesign.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2014-12-02 at 15:28 -0800, King Beowulf wrote:
> > On 12/02/2014 02:36 PM, Tim Wescott wrote:
> > > I've had the job of webmaster for my model airplane club thrust upon
> me.
> > > This is the site I'll be taking over: www.funflyers.org.
> > >
> > > Currently it's just a simple static web site, but with a members-only
> > > area behind a log-in.  The log-in is kind of a hack: there's only one
> > > user name and password.  But there's no real private information in
> > > there, and it provides a notice to the honest not to go there.
> > >
> > > This whole log-in thing will be new to me (oh joy).
> > >
> > > My most important question is -- who shall I go with?  My knee-jerk
> > > response is to just go with GoDaddy, because I get all their ads.  But
> > > for some reason, I seem to think that the PLUG crew may have some
> > > opinions.
> > >
> > > If possible I'd rather not get a slice on a server somewhere.  Rather,
> > > I'd really like to get an account with a hosting company, to which I
> > > just upload HTML files, and do some -- hopefully easy -- messing around
> > > to affect the login.
> > >
> > > Thank you for your suggestions.
> > >
> >
> > Drupal or Django will give you lots of flexibility and better login
> > systems/account control.  There are also lots of F/OSS templates for
> > these or even plain HTML/CSS.  But whatever you do...egad!  Not
> >
> > <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 4.0">
>
> Authoring will be in HTML under Eclipse.  It may not be the smartest
> thing, but no, I'm not using FrontPage on this.
>
> --
>
> Tim Wescott
> www.wescottdesign.com
> Control & Communications systems, circuit & software design.
> Phone: 503.631.7815
> Cell:  503.349.8432
>
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