Know of any? Prices?
TIA

Know of any? Prices?
TIA

Do you mean "storing" your website or accessing the Internet?

storing....

Know of any? Prices?
TIA

Does it *have* to be local?

I spent 5 years working on building a hosting business for a giant telecom/ISP. Unless you need to lay hands on your server, there's no reason for it to be local.

If you want a server in someone's basement, *I* can do that for you!!!

Go with a national provider if it matters to you. Unless you have massive data transfer/processing/database requirements you very likely don't even need dedicated hardware; a shared platform is fine for probably 90% of websites.

Why a national provider? Can a guy in his basement (or a local "data center") give you things like: diverse power from the utility, diverse connections from multiple ISPs, 48+ hours generator, on-site peering, geographically disaparate clustering (hot failover in the event of a catastrophy at one datacenter), etc.? There's a lot of good reasons to go with a provider who's built out some significant infrastructure.

There's only one good reason to find a local provider, and that's if you absolutely must put your hands on the server from time to time.

Start here:

Hosting Providers sites ordered by failures (http://uptime.netcraft.com/perf/reports/Hosters)

to find well performing providers, and then shop for prices. I've always been impressed with Web Hosting by PowWeb - One Plan, One Price (http://www.powweb.com) for cheap, reliable hosting with lots of features. They have quite a few competitors in that price range and you should have many to pick from.

Good luck!

Does it *have* to be local?

I spent 5 years working on building a hosting business for a giant telecom/ISP. Unless you need to lay hands on your server, there's no reason for it to be local.

If you want a server in someone's basement, *I* can do that for you!!!

Go with a national provider if it matters to you. Unless you have massive data transfer/processing/database requirements you very likely don't even need dedicated hardware; a shared platform is fine for probably 90% of websites.

Why a national provider? Can a guy in his basement (or a local "data center") give you things like: diverse power from the utility, diverse connections from multiple ISPs, 48+ hours generator, on-site peering, geographically disaparate clustering (hot failover in the event of a catastrophy at one datacenter), etc.? There's a lot of good reasons to go with a provider who's built out some significant infrastructure.

There's only one good reason to find a local provider, and that's if you absolutely must put your hands on the server from time to time.

Start here:

Hosting Providers sites ordered by failures (http://uptime.netcraft.com/perf/reports/Hosters)

to find well performing providers, and then shop for prices. I've always been impressed with Web Hosting by PowWeb - One Plan, One Price (http://www.powweb.com) for cheap, reliable hosting with lots of features. They have quite a few competitors in that price range and you should have many to pick from.

Good luck!

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Does it *have* to be local?

I spent 5 years working on building a hosting business for a giant telecom/ISP. Unless you need to lay hands on your server, there's no reason for it to be local.

If you want a server in someone's basement, *I* can do that for you!!!

Go with a national provider if it matters to you. Unless you have massive data transfer/processing/database requirements you very likely don't even need dedicated hardware; a shared platform is fine for probably 90% of websites.

Why a national provider? Can a guy in his basement (or a local "data center") give you things like: diverse power from the utility, diverse connections from multiple ISPs, 48+ hours generator, on-site peering, geographically disaparate clustering (hot failover in the event of a catastrophy at one datacenter), etc.? There's a lot of good reasons to go with a provider who's built out some significant infrastructure.

There's only one good reason to find a local provider, and that's if you absolutely must put your hands on the server from time to time.

Start here:

Hosting Providers sites ordered by failures (http://uptime.netcraft.com/perf/reports/Hosters)

to find well performing providers, and then shop for prices. I've always been impressed with Web Hosting by PowWeb - One Plan, One Price (http://www.powweb.com) for cheap, reliable hosting with lots of features. They have quite a few competitors in that price range and you should have many to pick from.

Good luck!

THANK YOU!!!!!:buddies:

Hi, We list two hosting sites here:

Marketplace/Internet Services/Web Site Hosting - Southern Maryland Online (http://somd.com/mp/internet/hosting/)

iPowerWeb is very inexpensive and affordable. We use them on occasion ourselves for domains we don't want to host on our own servers.

Also, buying a hosting package directly from these links puts a few bucks in our pockets to keep the lights on at somd.com.

I use hostgator for all my sites.

I use hostgator for all my sites.

I personally use Hostmonster and Site5. Haven't had problems with either, and they both offer good prices.

I've been using Webhost4life since 2002 and can probaly count on one hand the number of times there has been any sort of a downage. Their pricing is reasonable and it includes a lot of features that normally cost extra with other hosting companies.

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If you happen to have Verizon for your ISP, they offer web hosting for private and business.

Would any of you like to pm your site's address so that I can see the design, layout, etc?
TIA