On Fri, 01 Nov 2013 11:36:59 -0400 Miles Fidelman <mfidel...@meetinghouse.net> wrote:
> Joel Rees wrote: > > > > Now, to forestall your next diatribe, Craig said his friend needed an > > e-mail address and a net presence in a real hurry. He did not say he > > needed a full-blown business site, just a net presence. He did not say > > in a couple of days, he said tonight. > > > > For what it's worth, if you really mean basic presence, right spanking > now, I'd go with GoDaddy. Sure there are downsides to GoDaddy, but when > it comes to quick and easy setup of an email presence and a basic web > site (using your choice of content management systems) - they're quick, > easy, and inexpensive. > > I say this as someone who used to run a small hosting service, and still > does most of my personal and business hosting on a Debian cluster that I > own, sitting in a commercial data center, that I maintain. But, when I > had to set up a web site for my wife's business, and email/hosting for a > new venture of my own, I just plunked down the $100 for a GoDaddy > business package, clicked a few buttons, and had email and WordPress up > and running. Some of that I've since migrated to virtual machines on my > cluster, other pieces are still chugging away at GoDaddy. Everyone seems to knock GoDaddy, but I've been using them for a tiny (in terms of traffic) personal WordPress installation, and I'm perfectly happy with them. I know that their advertised image is rather sleazy, and the constant upselling attempts are annoying, but at least for my minimal needs, their domain registry / hosting Just Works. I had my domain with them for a few years, and then more recently when I found myself in need of a new hosting provider, I discovered that I was apparently grandfathered in for free Economy / Classic / 2GH hosting. There are some claims that they put ads on such websites, but we've never discovered any on mine. Everything works perfectly, and for just the annual ~$10 or so for the domain, I get the hosting included. Of course, this is a tiny site, and I'm not sure this perk still exists. I'm no hosting expert, and my needs are very basic. Celejar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131101135308.7374b1f24c7b575189061...@gmail.com
