Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/

[Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>]

on Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 10:30:13PM +0000, Josep Lluís Guallar Esteve wrote:
> My name is Josep and I'm new to the Triangle area. I just moved here from 
> Barcelona (Spain-Europe) to follow my career in the IT business.

Hi, Josep - welcome to RTP.
 
> Anyway, I'm looking to set up a web with a US-based host. How much can I 
> spect to pay for web-hosting and domain registration? Any company that is 
> specialy trusted by Internetworkers?

We host all our sites ourselves, on two servers co-located at Interlan
(hence my answer to the earlier question), so I can't really say first
hand what the low-end market is like right now. Prices range from
$10/mo. to $250 or so, from what I hear on mailing lists, depending on
what you want (UNIX? MS? what sort of toys? shell/ftp access? configurable
email? Cold Fusion/ASP or PHP/mod_perl/etc.?)

> The web should be for a e-magazine, with monthly updates. So it won't be an 
> amazon.com like web. Then, maybe, some mail redirection, DNS 
> registering,... 
> all that.

DNS registration is the worst part of the whole deal. I'd stay away
from every registrar with the possible exceptions of register.com and
joker.de.  I've had nothing but trouble with totalnic (they suck) and
NSI (pure evil posing as ignorance) and haven't used OpenSRS but hear
good things. But I think saving $10 a year on domain name registration
is a dubious savings indeed. I'd gladly pay $200/year just to avoid
having to play phone wumpus[1] with NSI reps ever again...

> I've been seeing the Ddicated-hosts messages, but I think that that soluion 
> is way to beyond my ideas.

Pair does non-dedicated hosting, too. I know there are several INW
folks using Pair, and it tends to be the host we recommend to folks we
don't want to host ourselves (but who we want to be happy, anyway.)

Steve

[1] http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/wumpus.html
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