Registrars and hosting - what do you use/recommend?

fatihG_

Hey guys,

So the registrar I am using right now is ceasing business and I need to transfer my domains and what not.

I was wondering what you guys are using and what you would recommend.

cheers,

Fatih

MikeF

Bluehost has been great for me the last few years, 1 year hosting and free domain transfer/registration for about 100$. they also usually have some sort of promo running, my first year was only 60$ i think

Ace-Angel

Heard good things about Bluehost too, don't use them, but most people vouch for them.

JohnnyRaptor

iv used streamline.net and just host for several years, both offer very good service, unlimited bandwidth and different storage space options. never had any downtime either.

But, iv recently started using dropbox to host my site and its even more awesome!

Andreas

JohnnyRaptor wrote: »

But, iv recently started using dropbox to host my site and its even more awesome!

How did you do that? Bought a URL from someone and then how did you go about the rest?

ZacD

I use holeinthewall hosting, pay $20 a year for the hosting, I've used then for 1.5 years and haven't a single issue.

Equanim

I use ICDSoft, great customer service reputation (though I've never needed it personally), simple, and around $80 a year. Mine and many of my clients' sites are hosted by them.

Zepic

Pay for what you use.

I've used these guys before and you only pay for what you use; super inexpensive.

https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/

fatihG_

Thanks guys. =]

Bluehost looks good. Seems to be around the same price range as my previous hosting and has pretty much the same features.

JohnnyRaptor.. so tried checking your website.. It's down. Guess Dropbox is not an option. =P

ICDsoft.. looks ok. I dont like that they are switching the "$" into a "€" for Europe though. $10,- != €10,-

Again thanks for the suggestions. I have made my choice. =D

Bigjohn

I can second (third?) Bluehost as well. Been using them for years for all sorts of things, my personal portfolio site included, and they've always been great. If your site has any special needs, like high-bandwidth/storage or special scripts or environments, they'll work with you and help you figure it out. They're good.

JohnnyRaptor

bb0x, really? what url you go to? i got a tracker on the site and i had the usual amount of traffic as far as im aware...but i might be missing the problem

Andreas, yeah, just get a domain, and do a forward to the actual html file. Pretty much all domain services allows cloaked forwarding so your url will remain www.yourname.com and not dl.dropbox.com/1239012831/inde.html for example.

I just put a Portfolio folder in my public dropbox folder and forwarded the domain to the index.html in there.

Bruno Afonseca

JohnnyRaptor wrote: »

bb0x, really? what url you go to? i got a tracker on the site and i had the usual amount of traffic as far as im aware...but i might be missing the problem

Andreas, yeah, just get a domain, and do a forward to the actual html file. Pretty much all domain services allows cloaked forwarding so your url will remain www.yourname.com and not dl.dropbox.com/1239012831/inde.html for example.

I just put a Portfolio folder in my public dropbox folder and forwarded the domain to the index.html in there.

"Oops! Google Chrome could not find www.johnnyraptor.com"

JohnnyRaptor

Fonfa where you see that link? , I stopped paying for hosting on johnnyraptor.com so that domain will be broken

www.pedramk.com is my main one hosted on dropbox

fatihG_

JohnnyRaptor wrote: »

bb0x, really? what url you go to?

What fonfa said. Only I use FF.

edit--

I figured the link in your profile to be your portfolio as I couldn't find any other.

JohnnyRaptor

Oh snap forgot I had put it there! Update! Sorry for the confusion!

ikken

dreamhost
p. happy with them through 2 years, and they waived off my domain fees for this year, which is p. sweet
US customers also get occasional discounts and all that nice stuff.

mospheric

I got my domains through NameCheap, and I get my hosting through Fatcow. Fatcow has cheap rates for the first year, and a really reliable service. My first year was $1 a month XD

MikeF

forgot to mention in terms of support:
Bluehost has been fantastic, in the 3 years i've been with them i've only had 2 issues and they were able to address them within 20 minutes. Infact THEY contacted me when something was going wrong and i hadnt noticed.

Also built in editors are available. I used a wordpress builder so that opens up your template/plugin selection to the 100's

Bruno Afonseca

JohnnyRaptor wrote: »

Oh snap forgot I had put it there! Update! Sorry for the confusion!

Now it's fine
Have you ever had any problems with people not being able to access your portfolio? I might move mine to my dropbox on my next update...

EarthQuake

Bluehost is great, have used them for a bunch of different stuff in the last 5 years or so.

JohnnyRaptor

Fonfa, no man, it's been really smooth. The only downsides are, if your using cloaked forwarding, you don't have clean URL, so every URL will be your main domain URL, so you can't link like www.fonfa.com/article.html since www.fonfa.com will have to go to a specific HTML file.

You also can't run code on the server so no super fancy stuff.

Personally I find the pros to be enough to make up for it tho, specifically,

File revisions and reverting, save a file on your hd and your website updates automatically... And it's free!

Kbrom12

Another great option is www.dynadot.com, I've been using that along with a few friends for years now without any issues and its very cheap.

Andreas

Cheers Johny.