HOW TO CHOOSE A WEBHOSTING SERVICE

I NEEDED a WEBSITE FAST. My DOMAINMONGER had gone up to 8$ a month
and I wanted to switch. I wrote my tekkie pal, "Say, you're the expert,
how about a CHEAPER WEBHOST maybe GoDaddy.com which is a
dollar or something. The Tekkie winced. "Anita, your material
is a little on the edge for them. You talk up guerilla capitalism, how to
launder money, how to marry a billionaire, holistic medicine, every one of those
things is going to ring bells over there and GoDaddy penalizes you big cash and
cuts you off, both. They use extortion-like methods. Say that someone
complains about your site, they disable it and hold it for ransom. Gotta
pay them $200 to get it back but they already took the money from your bank account
by automatic debit citing contract infringement, so frankly there is NO
getting it back! That has happened to quite a few people !!!!

Most of the cases I heard of involved spam complaints. And they
weren't even valid complaints. But that didn't matter. With GoDaddy, if
someone complains you are presumed guilty. And there's no reasoning with
them. Like a robot, all they can say is "WE TOOK  $200 out of your bank
account, fool. Try gettin' it back, huh?."

It doesn't have to be spam complaints, though. If you have what their
president considers to be objectionable content on your web site and
they find out about it, they could hold your domain name for ransom.
Lots of people like GoDaddy, but I won't do business with them because
of this."

Well I talk about GUERILLA CAPITALISM, HOW TO MARRY
a BILLIONAIRE and all kinds of EDGY STUFF so that wouldn't do for me!
But probably it would be OK for you. Get back to me on what they charge now.
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Now, I LOVE http://www.5dollarhosting.com 5$ a month, 60$ a year, endlessly
big websites. I have used one there for 5 years but I was hoping to pay less and
have it be a name I can remember. So that's when another pal told me
she'd been with drak.net for 7 yrs, perfect experience. 3$ s month, 36$ a year though
they doubled their prices recently. And the girls who owned it disappeared and a guy
took over, a rude cuss, too. Used to be if you wanted 3 websites price went down
to 5$ a month for all three. That is  less than 2$ each website per month!.
Well, I wrote them a letter at their website. THE girls who owned it and started the
host server off ANSWERED a mere ten minutes later.
I realized that they do something NO HOST DOES.
THEY ANSWER immediately. Though now it's a guy but they do have
attentive online TEKKIES 24/7. Perhaps that comes from it being
an all woman staff owners as women would never hear you talk and not respond.
They structured their mode of operation. But you try them.

I  wrote them an email and within ten minutes, owner
had written me back. Then we proceeded to have a conversation
back and forth by email so man, rather WOMAN, THIS is a great bet!

However, the man who answered a few weeks later was rude as sin and
told me prices had doubled. So I am NOT going with DRAK NET,
So I don't know where I will put my next website

A TEKIE WROTE ME: I've heard good things about this one:
http://www.aquariusstorage.com/affordable-web-hosting.php

You can put up to ten domains on their least expensive account.  And
with a name like that, they have to be good...

Another Pal tells me to investigate  http://www.bravenet.com
He thinks highly of them. And http://www.brinkster.com but he didn't give prices.
Maybe you have some suggestions of webhosts you like... to give me?

I'm currently thinking of names for it. FRUGAL LIVING.ORG
HOW TO MARRY A BILLIONAIRE.ORG
I've got dozens up my sleeve. VULTURE SANDWICH for my
FAMINE charity as vultures find all these orphaned children
in Africa these days. See http://www.masterjules.net/homelessindex.htm

And the RECESSION TECH 101 SEMINAR needs its own website. Problem
is I had a lot of poverty lately. Even cutting back on catfood!

THIS JUST IN: EARTHLINK offers a STARTER SITE
is $9.98/mo. for first 3 mos. + free domain name for 2 years.
     Free domain name for 2 years — $40 value
     Free setup — $25 value
     Free site builder — get online in under 1 hr.

     5GB of web hosting storage
     20GB of monthly data transfer
     100 email boxes Give them my name astrology at earthlink and I get a free month
MANY of my websites are the freebie ones, they look like this
http://home.earthlink.net/~astrology/
http://home.earthlink.net/~anitaastrologer/
and http://home.earthlink.net/~loveguru/

THESE are site names you cannot give to a friend, client BUT YOU CAN do CRAIGS LIST ads and put them in. My "FREE SEMINAR" series of ads features these URLS. Folks click on them, they're up and they're live links at Craigs. My articles contain them, dozens of them per article. I never LISTED MY URLS at search engines but those search engines FIND my sites, deliver them to searchers, cuz I have META TEXT in the coding. You also want to edit your meta text after you finish an article.
 

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