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Need a new webpage host.

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#21

Greg Elmassian said:

Go with GoDaddy for domain name reg… keeping the site separate from the nameservers helps resist attacks.

My website people are $100 a year, pretty dang good for 750 pages and a million hits.

Greg

Thanks Greg,

yes, im already using godaddy! :wink: and I dont plan to use them for my webpage hosting…

I registered:

http://www.scotlawrence.com

a few years ago…I grabbed it because I could! :wink:

having only one “T” in Scot was helpful, because scottlawrence.com was taken ages ago! :wink:

So the domain is already in place…I have it pointing to my google sites page right now, but I could change it.

Scot

#22

John Passaro said:

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I know I shouldn’t, but i’m still procrastinating because technically MLS is still working for me! :wink:

but its a gamble…maybe it will sit there and keep working for a few more decades, or it (the web storage) could disappear at any moment.

…

I don’t know what any of these guys are talking about, but I have a primitive question: You have back-ups at home of all your pictures and text, right?

Oh yeah, i always have full backups, that’s never a problem.

Dan Hall said:

If you’re moderately technical, you could use Digital Ocean. I really like owning my own server (a VM, really) with full control of how it’s configured.

Want a larger upload_max_filesize in PHP? Three seconds with your favorite text editor. Want to serve multiple virtual domains from directories of your choosing/configuration? Three minutes with your favorite text editor. Want to install some odd tool, run a custom version of apache, or do something silly like install sl? Whatever you want. Of course, the downside is that it’s all on you: screw it up and you have to fix it yourself.

They do snapshots, so backups are covered. And for $5 a month, it’s a way to keep my hand in as a sys admin (not my day job these days)

thanks Dan, Ive considered that! but I think that would be more hassle than its worth, for me…

I actually work as a sysadmin, and the challenge of running my own server would be… fun? maybe, but I dont think its anything I want to deal with right now…

Scot

#23

This looks very promising:

http://www.frontendjunkie.com/2015/04/save-money-by-moving-your-static.html

Hosting with Amazon…

I just discovered this tonight…didnt know it was a thing! :slight_smile: im going to do more reading on it…

Scot

#24

I use Joomla on my site, which is used by a lot of people, has front end and back end web editing, I ftp my files up and down, and Joomla has lots of plugins.

I have a plugin that does my web site backup (even though my ISP backs it up too), and the backup goes to my dropbox, and I archive it.

One click, easy to use, WYSIWYG, object oriented, easy.

Greg

#25

Testing!

https://s3.amazonaws.com/scotlawrence/manorway/index.html

Free hosting with amazon…

I doubt I would ever have enough traffic to trigger any cost…

this could work!

Im tempted to move all of:

http://1stclass.mylargescale.com/scottychaos/

over there…hmmmm…

Scot

#26

What tools do they give to manage the site?

Greg

#27

Greg Elmassian said:

What tools do they give to manage the site?

Greg

Greg,

I haven’t explored it fully, it can do more or less, depending on what you need.

Im planning to use it in the most simple and basic way possible: simply a home for my .html files, nothing more.

I wont even host my images there, since I already have at least half of my webpages pointed to images on smugmug, I will just leave them there…less links to edit that way.

It looks like I can simply create a folder for each “sub-page” I have, then place the specific .html file in that folder.

I will end up with about 50 folders, each with one file in it…I think it can work! I will have to edit one page at a time, mainly changing the links of where my individual pages point to each other, but I wont have to edit photo links.

My main concern has been the potential cost…but im pretty sure I should be waaaaaay below the point that will trigger any cost at all.

https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/

Probably half of my pages can go weeks, even months, at a time with no visitors at all! :wink: which is fine with me. (its funny, im an unusual webpage creator! :wink: in that when researching new hosts, im hoping that my pages get less hits, not more! :wink: because of the cost issue…while 99.9% of webpage creators hope and pray for as many views as possible! :wink: oh well…your priorities are different when you know your webpages will never earn a single red cent.)

My most active page, by far, is my Ariens snowblower page:

http://gold.mylargescale.com/scottychaos/ariens/

I plugged that page into google analytics a few years ago, and its getting about 300 page views a month.

So overall, my entire webpage collection averages maybe 400 views a month…which seems like a lot to me, but in the bigger world of webpage views in general, its laughably small! :wink: So I think im good in the cost area…it seems likely my webpages will generate no cost at all with this Amazon hosting, which is what i’m after! and especially with keeping my photos off of amazon, my bandwidth use will be virtually nothing…

Scot

#28

Well…I think im not going to go with Amazon afterall.

It seems great, but i simply can not figure out how much I might have to pay.

Its “free for one year”…which is fine. But after one year, how much might I have to pay?

depending on what I read, it could be $0, or $5, or $51.23, or $90 per month…

its all based on usage…and if there is a cost, it would vary month to month.

I would probably remain in the “free tier” and not have to pay anything at all, but im not 100% confidant about that, and its simply too complicated to figure it out for certain…

I started to move a few pages to Amazon, just to try it out:

http://www.scotlawrence.com

It’s easy to use, but I don’t like the uncertainty and variability around cost…

so…up next, Github.

thanks,

Scot

#29

Scott,

So far it’s looking really good! (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)

#30

Remember my suggestion if you do not get an answer elsewhere.

750 pages, over a million hits, $100 per year.

Greg

#31

Joe Zullo said:

Scott,

So far it’s looking really good! (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)

Thanks! :slight_smile: Its coming together…

Greg Elmassian said:

Remember my suggestion if you do not get an answer elsewhere.

750 pages, over a million hits, $100 per year.

Greg

Thanks Greg, yeah, thats an idea…but I dont think i need to pay $100 a year for what im doing…I know my Ariens page gets 300 hits a month, in the winter, and that is, by far, my most active page…All of my pages together probably get 2,000 hits a year total…thats less than 1% of your million hits.

im already paying $60 a year ($45 for my smugmug photo hosting, and $15 for the domain)…Thats about all im willing to pay for just hobby pages.

I think Github can work! it looks promising so far…(of course I said that about amazon too! :wink: but Github really is free…no ambiguity there.)

Scot

#32

Was not bragging, was saying I am getting a lot for $100, including hosting my pictures.

But free is free

Greg

#33

Joe Zullo said:

Scott,

So far it’s looking really good! (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)

Totally agree…really nice color, nice layout, graphics are attractive, it ain’t pretentious…all in all, really getting there.