TOP TEN WEB HOSTING (2009)

M. Oeuf Fromage asked:


***Note***
I posted this in another category too, so I hope I don’t get in trouble but I really need the opinions of people that read and answer in this category too.
***End Note***

OK… I design websites. I do not sell templates. As a matter of fact it is all over my website that I do not do templates, ever.

But a little over a year ago a new client came along and said he was looking for a template. He said he wanted a website built that looked cool and that he would update it.

I never told him I would give him a template, as a matter of fact I told him that he seemed like a busy guy and that I would be there to do the updating of his site for him.

So what I offered him (verbatim) is:

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$365 Includes:

5-7 page site designed and implemented
Hosting if needed
Up to 100 Email Addresses (if hosting with me)
Flash Design (2 max)
Logo Design and / or Manipulation
Contact form on site (PHP)
Free Updates for the existing content of the site (once site is designed and implemented)
1 Year – 24/7 Support (just email or call me anytime for any reason)
Submission of your URL to over 200 Search Engines quarterly

After one year, if you like to continue my services I just invoice you an additional $365 on the 1 year anniversary date.

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Now… The anniversary date has passed. I sent 3 invoices to the email address of the guy that started this agreement. I sent a 30 day notice, a 7 day notice and a 1 day notice. There was no reply to any of them.

I waited 10 days after the account was due to be renewed because that is what I say I will do in my Terms Of Service. And on this 10th day I filed a DMCA (copyright infringement) with the company that is hosting his site.

I did this because, again, I do not do templates. And in my TOS it says:

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All web site designs developed by and implemented by will remain the Intellectual Property of and domain names purchased by will not be transferred to the Customer if at any time either or the Customer cancel the Customers account, or the Customer violates any credit terms or other terms associated with this agreement and or their account.

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and

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Any artwork, images, or text supplied by and / or designed by on behalf of the customer and / or for use on the clients website, will remain the property of .
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Among other things.

I do not sell templates, I sell a service. If someone thinks they bought my designs, I’m sorry, but they didn’t, and I have gone out of my way to make this clear.

Anyway, today I get a call from someone else that works at the place I did the site for, actually the owner. He tells me that the person I was working with is no longer with his company, and the whole time he thought what they purchased was a template.

I explained to him what I just explained here and I told him that I would sell him the design outright and royalty free for $99. He talked me down to $75. Which is cool.

I just don’t like my work out there, and people hacking it up and making it look bad which makes me look bad, which is one reason why I hold the rights to my work. The other reason is, since I don’t do templates and every site is designed from scratch there is much more work involved, and if someone is done with their site, moves on to another company or whatever, then I am free to take that design with me and sell it to someone else who may have similar needs.

I have been doing webs now for over 10 years, and this is honestly the very first time I have been in this situation.

I kinda feel like a jerk, and although I had no intention of misleading anyone it appears that there was some confusion. But all in all I think the offer of buying my design for only $75 is a sweet offer to resolve the situation.

Am I being a jerk? And if I am, do you think it’s justified?

Let me know, I really want as many opinions as possible.

Thanks
Oh, and yesterday I emailed him a payment link for the $75 and he still has not paid.

telescope

matthew_a_webb asked:


Yah00.tv Its with 2 zeros… Thanks..
Oh yeah please don’t say nothing because I know its at least worth a few hundred, but your input is greatly welcomed.

seo help

Derek asked:


I created a new website and domain (www.earlyworldoflearning.com) using a combination of GoDaddy and SquareSpace about a month ago. Using google to search shows the website on the second page of results (not bad). But the website does not show up in Yahoo at all.
What steps should I take to make the yahoo search engine aware of this new website / domain? Do I need to pay a company to promote it?
Thanks

Derek

seo help

Nitroman asked:


I want to make a website that I will upload photos.When I make it and buy a domain then what do I do?And I read somewhere that you upload (or sth like that) your website to the company from where you bought the domain.If that’s truth,then how will I uploadphotos when I have new ones?Sorry for the bad English.Please help me because I am confused.

win at seo

blessed asked:


principal, r is the interest rate, and t is the time in years. Assume that $5000 is invested at an annual interest rate of 8% and that interest is added to the principal at the end of each year.

a.) Find the amount of interest that will be earned each year for five years

b.) State the domain and range of the relation

c.) Is the relation a function? Why or why not?

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Tori L asked:


I know that this sounds bad but I purchased a website then went to a hosting company to be able to host it and they switched my domain to them as the registrar I have tried everything and now they are trying to extort 500.00 from me to get them to put it back in my name which they took out of without my permission I need to try and find a way to get in to alldomains.com as them and switch it back to me and lock it down I will pay 100.00 to any one who tells me how to do this sucessfully

seo help

JT asked:


I just registered a domain name with godaddy.com and tried to transfer it to my freewebs account because go daddy charges for website building. But anyways i try to transfer it to freewebs and it say since its new i cant transfer it for 60 DAYS!!!!! WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO FOR 2 MONTHS?!?!?! I CANT BULID MY SITE WITH GO DADDY BECAUSE IT COSTS MONEY AND I CANT TRANSFER IT SO FOR 2 MONTHS MY SITE IS A GIANT ADEVERTISEMENT FOR GODADDY.COM!!!!
NEVER IN YOUR ENTIRE LIFE REGISTER WITH GODADDY IT IS THE WORST COMPANY I HAVE EVER SEEN!!!!!!! THEY RIPPED ME OFF SO FOR 2 OUT OF 12 MONTHS I CANT USE MY SITE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
what do you mean i didnt pay a penny? It says you owe $20 and i paid $20

telescope

JustAsking asked:


Recently I got a couple of domains from Network Solutions. A colleague in IT just raved about how they’re the best, they have the most services, they’re the Hertz/VISA/Nike/AmazoneBay of web services – how could I go wrong?

Well, I’m thinking I did go wrong. Though my friend touted the “free” website setup I could get at NS, I ended up paying $60 annual for lowest-tier web hosting. That’s OK, but then I found out I had to use THEIR web design tool – and after a 30-day trial, THAT will also cost me. Further, their tool is worse than inflexible – it fails to function because it overrides or erases my setup.

What I’m thinking now is to transfer my domains (since I own them now) to another web service (GoDaddy or some other). I want to contact my credit card company and cancel the web hosting/design tool part of my purchase with NS.

Has anyone dealt with managing their own domains and websites? Any *good* advice (as opposed to my colleague’s) as to what my options are now?

torrents of merit

Thread7 asked:


I have a dedicated server and when I do “nslookup mydomain” it doesn’t spit back my domain name. I could easily have the hosting company set this up. However, I’m not sure if it is beneficial at all.
Pros -> Maybe search engines find you more legitimate.
Cons -> Maybe it helps hackers find you.
Reverse DNS was what I meant. I already have DNS for the server and domain. SSL is probably enough incentive to set it up.

webkinz

Full of Questions asked:


It’s one of those blank sites that is waiting for someone to buy it and if you are interested in buying, it has a form to be filled out saying your name, email, and amount offer to purchase site. So they are going off with you starting out with the price level, but I’m not sure what the going rate is for websites like that.

Thanks for all suggestions

Hendrix

… asked:


On doteasy.com you have to pay for your domain on a yearly basis… but they have a plan that says the actual hosting is free? “$0 Web Hosting”… I realize this would be fairly basic, but how reliable and good is it? Is it free for only your first year or free forever as long as you pay for your domain?

Thanks!
http://www.doteasy.com/Compare/

So it really is only $25 per year… but how good is their service, quality and reliablity?

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ADV asked:


…and I am trying to start up a web hosting business so could I host multiple websites with 1 static ip address. Or would I need 1 for each domain? Thanks in advance!

collect pens

foreverfastlane asked:


Foreverfastlane.com is my website.

The domain name was purchased through yahoo.
The site is hosted by babyhosting.com

I’m very angry with Yahoo right now, because they will not reverse a charge on a feature I did not want (OR EVER use.)
I also found they marked up my domain price to $34 a year!!! They then tried to make it better by giving me the going rate of $9.95!!
I’m sick of dealing with them, and wouldn’t mind going with godaddy, because they are having a “domain transfer” sale, for 6.99

I’m just afraid it’s going to mess with the website, because I don’t know the technicalities of the transference.

Please advise!

win at seo

RicoCoco asked:


I received a really low offer for 3 domain names, now I know they are worth more they are really good keyworded domain names, I do not know how to go about negotiating or deciding what the right price is! Any advice?

It is greatly appreciated!

torrents of merit

2fly1 asked:


I purchased a 1 page starter site and named it WorkingOffers.com to sell my domain names, I have a little over 200 names and have tried various ways of driving traffic to it but with little success. The best was by far google adwords but I don’t want to by the company and it can get expensive. It would be great if I were selling a product of some kind to pay for the adwords but I don’t and would like to not go much over $100 per month for advertising. We did try Adsense to counter the Adwords price but are lucky to make a dollar per day from adsense when adwords can cost as much as you let it. I would invest thousands per month if the pay off were profitable. I see on Alexa.com some companies shooting up over 30,000 % over a 3 month period and just wonder what they do.

seo help

REPUBLICAN AND PROUD – STILL asked:


For a relatively cheap price?

Thanks in advance to all who answer my question!

Genesis

bunny u asked:


I do not know how to use HTML, so I need one with a good sitebuilder program. I only want to pay a yearly fee, not monthly. I am also not planning to pay a fortune because it’s not going to be a business site, but just for me. I guess my price range is $50 or less for a year, is there such a thing? Because I see other sites go for about $10/ month.

internet money

Jordan L asked:


And I can’t have one that’s an extension of another, either.

Ie. “example.yahoo.mydomain.you.gov/mememe” is not aloud

sick

thnbgr1 asked:


All I need is 10 domain names, and not more than 10GB of web space.

Thanks!

I do value price, but reliability is my main concern.

sick

mail_manu_unam asked:


Please suggest some nice(service/features/price) email service vendors where can receive incoming mail for my domain (Small business – 10 email addresses or so) & can use pop kind of service to use it integrated with MS Outlook.

internet money