While a domain name is a domain name, and other than downright crooks, I'm
not all that sure there's a huge difference from one to another, there are
significant differences in hosting providers.

The first question is what do you need?   Do you need many gigabytes of
space?  Do you need the provider to build and maintain your web site?  To
you need them to provide a shopping cart?  Do you intend to write your own
cgis?  To you need Perl, PHP, ASP, etc. etc. etc.  What do you need in the
way of metrics from the site?  Do you need to provide email under you domain
name?  Mail reflectors?

Once you have figured out the features you need, look at the space and the
traffic you expect.  Also think about your tolerance for response time.  All
of these things will affect how happy you are with a provider.

I have a site hosted with TLCHost.net.  They are CHEAP if you don't need
huge amounts of space.  On another site (which I am just setting up and
haven't selected a hosting site for yet) I have needs for more storage, and
with more storage, they get more on the pricey end.

They give me a shell account with all the features I want, and a very nice
interface for controlling the site and the email lists and very nice
metrics.  They are hosted on very fast servers so the performance is great.
The site setup was quick and painless.  They don't have a lot of the
high-end features, though, and as I said, when you start looking at hundreds
of megabytes, they are no longer cheap.

So it depends as much on what you want and need.  More hand holding will
cost you more money, but it could be worth it to you.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin Constant"
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 4:19 PM
Subject: Re: [OT]: Web hosting (was URL registration)


> >Does anyone have any recommendations (or any thoughts at all, really) for
> >Domain Name registration.
> >
> >TIA
> >Colin
> >
> Thanks everyone.  I've got through that.  Now I need web hosting.  Any
> recommendations?  Pitfalls I should look out for?
>
> Is there an issue with making sure they provide DNS in the price?  Does
that
> question make any sense?
>
> Thanks again everyone,
> Colin
>
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