orchid1
06-20-2003, 11:52 PM
These offer are from namecheap.com where I purchase the domain name. What is...
URL Forwarding/Framing with no ads
E-Mail Forwarding
Domain Nameserver
Full Control over your domain
Security features
These offer are from a web hosting, espinda.com where I'll get the web space from. What are these?
Unlimited Email Forwarders (how come both the namecheap and espinda offer the same thing?)
Unlimited ODBC/DSN Connections
Unlimited Domain Pointers
MS Windows 2000 / IIS4
24/7 FTP Access
iHTML
WAP Ready
Free Control Panel (REALLY NEED TO KNOW THIS)
Daily Tape Backup
darkwolf
06-21-2003, 12:02 AM
I don't know much about it, never had actually used a paying host :p Yep, I'm cheap. But it's not uncommon for more than one host to use some or all of the same services.
But 24/7 FTP Accces means that you'll have access to your site's FTP 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. =) lol
Gen-Leonisknovo
06-21-2003, 04:28 PM
If you want a HUGE HUGE HUGE site, and wanna sign a contract for 12 months, get iPowerWeb. (forget URL; search 'em on Yahoo.com)
If you just want moderate amount of space and stuff, try www.anycities.com
If you want a free, 20MB website w/ no forced-ads, try www.doteasy.com You pursche the $25 domain name with them, (.NET or .COM or .ORG) and then you get the free, no ad-banner/pop-ups, ect. ect. with it.
:D
Hope it helps. (PS: not sure if you have to seperately pursche a domain name w/ Anycities.com)
You know, you could email namecheap and ask them ^^. It'll give you a good opportunity to test out their support and the information will be more accurate.
A while ago, when I was going to buy a domain, I emailed them and they responded really quickly... so give it a try :). They also have a help (http://www.namecheap.com/resources/help/) section which answers some of those questions.
Dude128
06-25-2003, 03:13 AM
what Alcy said brings up a good point: before signing up with any host, you really should test their support, since that's one of the major factors in choosing one- usually the cheaper ones or the ones that give you more disk space and bandwidth have to take something away, and that's usually support. even if you know the answer to a question (and it's probably better if you do, so you can kind of quiz them), ask anyway. play dumb- ask them something about the services they offer or whether they support whatever feature, and see how well they can answer the question.