Designers Tackling the Web

Hi,

It was a pleasure attending class today with everyone, and thank you Austin again.

There are many hosting providers out there. They essentially are companies that have really cool computers called servers in a building that you share with other users. They also have a way better internet connection than you do. This is where your website/webpages will go. You upload it to the server via FTP FTPS and SSH (is there more ways anc correct me if I'm wrong?). This is where the filezilla program comes into play. After you upload them anyone can type in the URL (remember ted.com) into thier browser and it will take them to the file(s) that you uploaded to your server.

I use bluehost.com for bunglebus.com (a flash site I created using adobe bridge, only a slideshow of photos). I also use 1and1.com for tampabaydiscsportsclub.com . I find that customer support is important at the stage I am now within web developement. Bluehost offers great 24/7 service online and over the phone, but only used it once It was when I uploaded bunglebus.com. My website wasn't showing up after uploading, and had to call to figure out why. I had my website within an extra folder, and called them up and they moved it down a folder for me and got it working within 2 minutes from the time I hit talk on my phone! Eventhough, I wish they would have taught me why.

1and1.com is also highly recommended. The disc golf club also pays around 100 bucks a year for that as I do with bluehost.com I plan on moving them over to my server, but don't really know how to do it. I have not had any problems with them. When I update the club's site and ftp it via dreamweaver it is shown right away on the web.

What hosts have you found? what are thier benefits? Can we share our web hosting server? Can a hosting provider host a domain that is registered with another company? Anything web hosting Q&A

I found this http://webhostinggeeks.com/ , it is a list of different web hosts.