question for Amm, Kristen, Ray, Metalgirl

..and anyone else.  Who do you all use for your website hosting?  Im desperately needing to change so i can update my website and need a new company that someone can recommend.  Id be interested to hear from all of you as i want to check out all different companies that people have had experience with.

I need somewhere easy to upload pictures and be able to alter them at any time. 

 

Thanks

x

I pay $4 a mo. I used seanic.net nebver had a problem, been at least 4 - 5 years.

I have a local company for my web hosting and I don't recommend them.  I pay $140 per year, but anytime I want to change anything, including pictures on my website, they charge me an additional fee.

I am also looking for someone else to host my site.

I use gaijin.com for my domain name hosting- it's something like $15-20 a year. My actual webspace is located on retina.net, which is a friend's server so I get it for the price of a drink every time I see him. :) I dunno that retina.net is high-volume enough to do commercial hosting, but I have several friend swho host their stuff on www.laughingsquid.net and are very happy with them. Plus it's just really fun saying "I have the Giant Squid plan."

Also- fees to -change- something? Like to do your own webwork, or to have -them- change it? Being charged to do your own uploading is f**king ridiculous. Settle for no less than 24/7/365 full access to all your files with no extra charge. It doesn't cost -them- anything extra if you change your page three times a day, so why should they charge you for it?

-Rae

I think i will try all these companies everyone suggests and get quotes as the company im with are unreliable and dont have a guaranteed uptime but most of all they charge me by the minute to upload, read email etc.  The catch is that i cant upload or read email unless im loged onto them.  On the plus side, i have no monthly / annual fees and have a large chunk of space (unlimited they say) although in the small print it suggests that they wouldnt allow me space for something with massive traffic, i guess like a board like this with so many visitors.

Thanks for all the help everyone.

x

Ive actually just remembered that if i do change companies, i will need someone to host my domain as well as my site! Ahhh!

Its all so frustrating.  Although i managed to sort out the uploading files matter, it seems that my site has only updated on microsoft internet explorer but not aol.  Weird?? Im going to email them again.