Website down

[avevale_intelligencer]

Having removed all my mp3 files, I am stll 23Mb over Madasafish's 100Mb space limit, and all the other files are tiny, such that to remove enough would gut the site. I have taken everything down for the moment, and am looking for a new home.

One.com offer to transfer the domain for nine quid, and give me three Gb free for a year. What it would be after that I do not know. Is that good, or could I find better? What questions should I be asking? Does the world really need me to have webspace at all?

Comments

[janewilliams20.livejournal.com]

I'm generally looking for a bit more than plain webspace myself (CF server and databases), but these are the people who manage my domain names (though not my hosting):
http://www.easyspace.com/domain_names/domain_transfer
Check the small print at the bottom: "free" isn't, you have to pay the renewal fee for your domain, whatever it may be. Probably £9.50.
After the first year (free), look at their various offerings and see which one works for you.

Far less space, more toys you don't want, but far cheaper: the people who host my site.
http://www.hostingatoz.com/shared_hosting.cfx
Looks like the domain transfer there would cost 10USD or so.

Questions to ask: how reliable are they, what tools do they give you to administer the site (and what do you want? if you're happy using your own editor and an FTP client to publish, you don't need much), what tools do they give you to analyse the logs?

[keristor.livejournal.com]

Note that Hostingatoz's minimum offering is 5GB (at US$7.99 per year), that's 50 times the amount Madasafish are supplying (100MB). That's pretty darn good. (Mind you, Mike's offer is free *g*...)

[janewilliams20.livejournal.com]

No, the 5GB is monthly traffic. The webspace you get for that is 50Mb - rather less impressive.

Mike's offer would be hard to beat, though.

[keristor.livejournal.com]

Ah, in that case the EasySpace 'starter' version would be probably about the same price for 500MB (which he will need if he was exceeding his existing space by that much). If you're storing pictures or reasonable quality MP3s then 500MB is not actually all that big.

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

Thank you.