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I know this is a little off subject but I know many of you would of dealt with this same problem. I am looking for a new job and want to post my portfolio on the net. It will be designed in flash and around 15mb. I have never posted a web page and would appreciate any advice on cheap hosting companies in the UK. Obviously I don’t expect the site to be accessed all the time but I would need a good speed for all the images. Really any advice is appreciated, I am really in the dark on this one.

 

simon

P.S am very broke after working in athens for 6 months. :angesigh:

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jackb602 Newbie

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Simon,

 

Start with webhostingratings.com. They have reviews of many web hosting companies around the world. I chose ICDsoft.com because they got consistently great reviews, and they charge $60/year for 333MB. Hope this helps,

 

Jack

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thanks for the help,

i think i'll go with ICDsoft.com too jack. Netfirm was very tempting though but i need e-mail too. i must say i'm amazed at the diffence in price around. Will it matter though if i get a US based host when i'm in the UK??

 

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Simon,

 

Glad the links were helpful. Actually, ICDsoft is based in Honk Kong I believe, and that's where the servers are. I haven't set up my site yet, so I can't really talk about performance. But the issue has come up on webhostingratings.com and most people seem happy with it.

 

Jack

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I use and am very happy with infinology.com. And they have a ridiculous deal. $6.95 a month for 9,000Mb of space, and 5,000 e-mail accounts, and an ungodly amount of bandwidth.

 

But I am not sure if that deal is offered thru their website itself. I have been using the link on my website to give my clients this deal when they need hosting service.

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Good God.. 9GBs for $6.95! :gebigeek:

 

Hey, I am curious if any of you guys can explain to me IF there would be an advantage if I hosted my own site?

 

Like this is what I was thinking:

I currently have a regular dial-up connection - but would like to get either DSL or Cable.

Now are there any advantages (or if it is even possible) to get a DSL or Cable internet account that allows me to host a site on my own (I assume that I would have to have a static IP)? Would that be a more inexpensive way?

 

OR would getting a company to host my site for about $8/mo and then getting a seperate high-speed access for my own system be the better way to go. I would guess, that this would be the more headache-free way (interms of security and keeping the system always up, etc).

 

I think the convenience of having the site local would be nice, and I ASSUME that this would be a cheaper way to go, but honestly its quite a guess since I have never been 'into' this before.

 

Anyone care to comment?

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Originally posted by Hazdaz:

Like this is what I was thinking:

I currently have a regular dial-up connection - but would like to get either DSL or Cable.

Now are there any advantages (or if it is even possible) to get a DSL or Cable internet account that allows me to host a site on my own (I assume that I would have to have a static IP)? Would that be a more inexpensive way?

Here is why not:

  • Speed - the ADSL/Cable upload speed just ain't enough.
  • Its hell to set up a real url to work (http://www.yourdomain.com?)
  • Yes, you'll need static IP, which costs more, or just make sure you don't have any lond downtimes, so you IP is safe (but not forever)
  • People are actually getting into your machine - takes a serious security measures
  • You'd probably end up wanting another machine to host the site...

But, you might find a Cable ISP that also gives a 5MB site host within the price you already pay.

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Richard McCarthy Newbie

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Not necessarily.

You can get this great shareware called "dynsite"

 

http://noeld.com/dldynsite.htm

 

 

It will basically let you host your website on your desktop. It's a simple IP to DNS updater, so, you DNS is perminently locked to your IP. (so, you can basically host your site on a modem even!)

 

This would work great for personal site, but if you use it for commericial purposes, I suspect most ISP would not be happy and would charge extra to host your commercial site on a Home DSL/Cable/56k Modem connection.

 

 

Originally posted by Hazdaz:

..... (I assume that I would have to have a static IP)? Would that be a more inexpensive way?

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Richard McCarthy Newbie

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Where is your site? ;)

 

 

Originally posted by Josh:

I use and am very happy with infinology.com. And they have a ridiculous deal. $6.95 a month for 9,000Mb of space, and 5,000 e-mail accounts, and an ungodly amount of bandwidth.

 

But I am not sure if that deal is offered thru their website itself. I have been using the link on my website to give my clients this deal when they need hosting service.

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