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**progressive** · Oct 12th, 2001, 04:02 AM

I need to set up a domain + hosting for a website I'm doing for a small business.

Up-to now i've just used the free services for sites that I've created.

I would like some advice on a good hosting company. That supplies the bare essentials package for as cheap as possible!

The site is only going to be about 10 pages max, not to bothered about being able to write my own scripts, providing you can customise there feedback forms etc....

I'd prefer one thats reliable and doesn't host 1000's of sites on one server ( eg really slow ).

Cheers !

chenko · Oct 12th, 2001, 04:09 AM

well if yoyu want dedicated it will cost you a bit, rackspace.com do dedicated servers, but its not worth it for 5 pages

**progressive** · Oct 12th, 2001, 04:12 AM

I don't want dedicated just one that doesn't go over the top on the amount of sites they host on there servers

**progressive** · Oct 12th, 2001, 06:07 AM

come on guys you must know of some!

**JoshT** · Oct 12th, 2001, 07:05 AM

I use Burlee. www.burlee.com

**progressive** · Oct 12th, 2001, 08:04 AM

And they're good are they?

how much does it cost u ?

It says $12.95 a month if u pay for a month up front. Is that what you pay or are there hidden extras?

Cheers!

**chrismitchell** · Oct 12th, 2001, 08:42 AM

progressive I will have a look and get back to you... I know of a few.

**progressive** · Oct 12th, 2001, 08:43 AM

cheers m8!

**chrismitchell** · Oct 12th, 2001, 08:49 AM

No probs I know of a few.. What sorts of things are you needing? ASP etc?

**progressive** · Oct 12th, 2001, 08:57 AM

The site is only for a small business, so it will only be about 10 pages.

I will only require support for Perl or VBscript or PHP ( whichever I'm not fussy ), as i want to be able to create a feedback form!

I've been looking round but you see one price then you look deeper and find out you have to pay a lot more!

Thanks again!

**progressive** · Oct 12th, 2001, 09:00 AM

whos the little blue dog hosted with??

**filburt1** · Oct 12th, 2001, 09:03 AM

Originally posted by progressive
I need to set up a domain + hosting for a website I'm doing for a small business.

Up-to now i've just used the free services for sites that I've created.

I would like some advice on a good hosting company. That supplies the bare essentials package for as cheap as possible!

The site is only going to be about 10 pages max, not to bothered about being able to write my own scripts, providing you can customise there feedback forms etc....

I'd prefer one thats reliable and doesn't host 1000's of sites on one server ( eg really slow ).

Cheers !

Free with no ads, but no CGI bin: http://www.liquid2k.com/index2.html

**chrismitchell** · Oct 12th, 2001, 09:05 AM

littlebluedog was hosted with Brinkster. and I bought the domain from Firevision.

chenko · Oct 12th, 2001, 09:24 AM

Originally posted by progressive

I will only require support for Perl or VBscript or PHP ( whichever I'm not fussy ), as i want to be able to create a feedback form!

VBScript, are you talking about ASP? as VBScript is client side and only works on IE browsers

If its only ten pages, im sure anything with CGI support (for mail forms etc) will do

**progressive** · Oct 12th, 2001, 09:31 AM

I thought ASP's are written with VBscript!

Are they not??

chenko · Oct 12th, 2001, 09:38 AM

they are, but when someone says VBScript it usally means the client side

**progressive** · Oct 12th, 2001, 09:40 AM

Is that no incorrect though as ASP is the technology and VBscript is the language!

**progressive** · Oct 12th, 2001, 09:45 AM

Thanks Filburt1, however I want a www.yourdomain.com site

I could host it on there and buy domain that redirects to that site. That would be slow though!!

**chrismitchell** · Oct 12th, 2001, 09:53 AM

Well you can get the domain name and the space with Brinkster. Though it costs alot to do.

**progressive** · Oct 12th, 2001, 10:24 AM

I've found these, they look quite good on paper:

magic moments

has any had any experience with them???

**JoshT** · Oct 12th, 2001, 11:12 AM

ASP is a technology that can use any ActiveX scripting language. By default that's VbScript and JScript, you can add PerlScript if you want (these all work client or server on Windows, as long as they're installed).

Anyway, Burlee might have charged me a US$20 or $30 setup fee - I can't remember, but it'll say on their site. Other than that, I went with the $12.95 prepay deal, and it's been pretty good. I use their windows plan with ftp (I don't like Frontpage) and it supports ASP and Perl/PerlScript. SQL Server is extra, but you can use Access if you don't want to pay.

**sail3005** · Oct 12th, 2001, 11:28 AM

I am just gonna second burlee.

It works great, and they have great tech support!

**Psyrus** · Oct 12th, 2001, 04:38 PM

Here's one:

http://www.stargateinc.com/

They are really reasonable in their prices. I haven't used them yet. Currently I use Brinkster for the site and Dotster for the domain name.

http://www.brinkster.com/Default.asp

http://www.dotster.com/home/

**JungleMan** · Oct 12th, 2001, 05:43 PM

Host-Save.com

6.95 a month..30 megs, CGI

great basic hosting package

**sail3005** · Oct 12th, 2001, 07:15 PM

another i heard was good is http://www.telaweb.com

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