web space and a dot com address?

malcolm · May 2006

I'm running low on free web space and I'd also like to get a simple web address to store my portfolio on, anyone know how this works? How do I register a dot com address and all that junk?

Daz · May 2006

I used http://www.dreamhost.com/domains/

pretty good service for the $ I think.

Tulkamir · May 2006

On a related question what is a good domain name for a portfolio? Would it be best to just use my full name? Or a part of it? Or something else in full?

Suppose it might not be a huge deal, but still something I've wondered about.

Justin Meisse · May 2006

well, I chose something that I could tell someone and it would be easy to remember, it used to be ysgalon.com, which was way too confusing. I settled on artbyjustin.com instead of my full name because Meisse is to hard for people to remember.

Tulkamir · May 2006

Alright, thanks Justin.

Makes sense.

poopinmymouth · May 2006

I suggest www.hitlersbabyfistinginc.com

I use bluehost.com which I highly recomend. 250 gb a month of bandwidth, 5 gb storage, and they have excellent near instantaneous support. I have heard a few bad things about Dreamhost, mainly that they've grown to fast which makes for poor support and frequent downtimes, but I don't know for sure.

Recently bluehost just upgraded me to 400 gb a month transfer which was really cool. I don't pay any extra. Plus you get free domain registration for as long as you're with them.

Daz · May 2006

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I have heard a few bad things about Dreamhost, mainly that they've grown to fast which makes for poor support and frequent downtimes, but I don't know for sure.

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fyi, I've never once experienced any downtime. As for support, I think it kinda depends what you need from this. Personally, I've never even needed any support, I just wanted to register a domain and some space, which Im pretty sure is all malcolm needs. I'd put you in the more advanced user bracket Ben

Daz · May 2006

btw Tulkamir, yeah, just something shortish and easy to remember. Heh, I was annoyed that http://www.daz.com was already taken, cos it's bizarre and a complete waste of time, and equally irked by some probably distant American relatives and their insistance on hanging on to http://www.pattenden.com even though they've not updated their content in forever. Jeez, that kid is probably in school now.

b1ll · May 2006

i used godaddy. Was decent price. Work well, they are friendly, and stuff. Im happy. Ya I vote for something short and easy to remember. I was piss that b1ll.com was taken, but hey, WHAT can u DO!

Daz · May 2006

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I was piss that b1ll.com was taken, but hey, WHAT can u DO!

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Offer 'em some $? Looks like it's up for sale

http://www.sedo.com/search/details.php4?...&language=e

rooster · May 2006

I did some looking about because I'm interested in hosting, and some of these reviews suggest that while dreamhost are great as long as things run smoothly, they are a bit useless if something does actually go wrong: http://www.ftpplanet.com/cgi/_listreview...w.dreamhost.com

b1ll · May 2006

lol. I dont think I want it that much.

benregimbal still is easy
and Im sure people would fuck up with b1ll, they would type bill.com. or ask me what b1ll mean and all that shit. so NEVER!

Daz · May 2006

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I did some looking about because I'm interested in hosting, and some of these reviews suggest that while dreamhost are great as long as things run smoothly, they are a bit useless if something does actually go wrong: http://www.ftpplanet.com/cgi/_listreview...w.dreamhost.com

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Well like I said, I use them for a portfolio site and storage space. Nothing more. Suits me fine. Never had a problem.

Justin Meisse · May 2006

dang poop, I took a look at bluehost and it beats my current plan over at addaction.net, I might have to switch.

rooster · May 2006

fair enough daz thats all I'm looking to do; but some folk in the reviews have had trouble switching their registered domain from dreamhost to another company, which is also something I might want to do

Mongrelman · May 2006

I too am with dreamhost(over a year now), and I've never had any problems at all with them. Like daz mine is just for a portfolio site and to store stuff on.

SuperOstrich · May 2006

I'm using Lunarpages. I'd switch to Bluehost if I didn't sign a 2 year contract. I did a performance test with a file on Poop's site. I uploaded it to mine and compared the download speed from his host and mine. Bluehost was like 4 times faster.

MoP · May 2006

I'm on Bluehost, it's pretty good although I have experienced a little downtime and sometimes slow servers... probably more often than should really be expected. They usually fix stuff up quickly though.

I read that Bluehost (and most hosts) use a sharing thing where up to 5-10 people share the same DNS or something? I don't know the technical side of it, but it appears Dreamhost don't share them, each site gets its own stuff, so it should be faster?

I might be talking nonsense though.

malcolm · May 2006

Okay dreamhost it is, but what does this mean? What is this 50 dollar charge I'm very confused?

Automatically rebill me:
(Even set up fees are covered by our 97 day money-back guarantee.)
once a month. ($49.95 set up fee.)
once a year. (No set up fee!)
every two years. (No set up fee, plus 20% off! Except for L0.)

Oh yeah and my name is taken obviously but there is nothing at www.malcolm.com? What a rip off. I'm thinking of going with malcolm341.com as that is my e-mail and login name for all other sites.

MoP · May 2006

basically if you want to pay monthly, rather than yearly or 2-yearly, they throw in an extra charge for some reason.
most places do this, i've seen, i guess it's to encourage you to go for a full year or two rather than just a few months.

malcolm · May 2006

So if I pay monthly they charge me 50 bucks for the guy to change the payment method from yearly to monthly, that is a frickin' rip off. But I don't want to drop a hundred bucks at the end of the year I'd rather pay in installments. BS.

snemmy · May 2006

why not look at www.polycount.net eh?

MoP · May 2006

not to knock Vito's offer, but because for precious little more than the prices quoted on polycount.net , I can get an actual domain name, several gigs of storage and unlimited transfer, along with all sorts of other goodies which aren't provided there.

still, it's good if you just want somewhere quick and easy to post images and host a portfolio, I guess.

Zergxes · May 2006

Hostrocket has been working well for me. They have a very shiny website, too.

hawken · May 2006

I've been registering domains for about 8 years with www.joker.com

as for hosting, been through a few, finally settled on one that hosts for artists (I somehow get over 20k unique a month) at www.misanthrope.nu

for some reason I'm spotlighted at that site too!

thnom · May 2006

Don't you hail from England, Hawken?

hawken · May 2006

I hail from my apartment

EarthQuake · May 2006

got bluehost, they've upped there spec recently, 400 gigs/m and 15 gig space.

Jeremy Lindstrom · May 2006

http://www.siteground.com is nice too $5 bucks a month.

chrismaddox3d · Oct 2006

is everyone still happy with bluehost,im thinking about using them to host my portfolio site,Chris^_^

Lee3dee · Oct 2006

this it? http://www.bluehost.com/

im also looking for a new domain/hosting. I pay $65 a year for 900MB which i know is junk. contract expires dec 01, so im looking now.

fogmann · Oct 2006

Yes, that's Bluehost. I've been hosting my site with them for year and a half and so far so good. I've been quite happy with the service. When they upgrade the quotas for the new customers, they also upgrade quotas for existing customers, you just need to send them email. The customer support is great, I needed it only once though, but the guy resolved the problem within two minutes.

web space and a dot com address?

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