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[Ronda93]

I'm sure some DIS memebers have their own web domain and partake of the myriad web hosting options available.

I'm considering a small site. No cgi or SQL, just html, applets, maybe some forms... simple stuff.

Does anyone have a nomination or warning to offer? What kind of surprises have bitten you?

thanks,
Ronda

 

[Towncrier]

Since I don't want to be accused of advertising, I'll send you an email with the name of the web hosting service that I use for the two websites that I manage.

 

[Dan Murphy]

I have used www.worldzonepro.com for about 18 months or so. Many of the pictures I had posted here in the past, as well as many cliparts, are hosted there. I have several sites with them. I find them to be generally very good, with several aggravating periods of downtime in the past as they migrated to some larger systems. They seem good overall, and are responsive when I have had questions.

You can check out their support forum here.

www.worldzonesupport.com

 

[SoonerKate]

Check your PMs!

 

[Ronda93]

thanks everyone. I'll check them out.

Ronda

 

[ducklite]

How are you planning on doing forms without CGI--unless you're looking as .asp or .jsp, which takes it out of the realm of "simple stuff".

Applets aren't exactly simple stuff either--they are Java. If you are a C++ programmer you could probably figure out how to create them even if you don't know Java, it's just another form of OOP. Personally I don't like using applets, I don't like anything that has to download client side to work, unles there's a "business need" for it. A lot of the stuff you would do with applets you can do with FlashMX scripting these days, although servlets are always my first choice. The only advantage to applets is the "JVM" is "built in", making them more portable than the other options.

What authoring tools are you planning on using, if any? This could have impact on your hosting company choice, depending on the type of servers they are using.

Anne

 

[Alex]

We use Verio for the boards and have had pretty good luck with them