Re: web hosting for loopers?

["Charles Winters" <chasw44@comcast.net>]

Lee:  I got started with Godaddy when I saw their hilarious ad on the 
Superbowl last year (a spoof of the congressional hearings on stamping out 
"indecent" television shows).  When the time came to select a domain name 
for my ever looping son, John, our first stop was Godaddy.com.  They had 
all 
the services we needed, at very low price, compared to the competition.  I 
registered the domain name and rented a hosting share on their Windows 
servers with their Traffic Facts option so we could monitor traffic. 
Everything was done online with no person to person contact.  One combined 
transaction with my credit card.

So far so good, but this is where the fun started.  I had zero experience 
building a web site, so I took the easy path for a beginner, I bought a 
bargain copy of Office 2002 (with Frontpage included), I bought a used 
Frontpage 2002 users guide from Amazon.com, then I started reading and 
experimenting.  By the time I was done, about 2 weeks later, I had a 
suitable web site for John with mp3 audio clips, artwork, guestbook, just 
about anything a beginner could want.  Changes and maintenance are a snap. 
All through this, Godaddy's performance has been great.  However, don't 
ask 
them any questions about how to build your site because they are not 
particularly inclined to help, or maybe just don't know much about web 
building tools.  Best approach to that is call them on the phone rather 
than 
email or chat.

In summary, we are satisfied customers, no real complaints.  Our next 
generation web site will be built with a more sophisticated tool like 
Dreamweaver, but for now everything is working OK.
- CW
www.johnwinters.biz

x----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lee Maravel" <leemaravel@yahoo.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2006 6:06 AM
Subject: web hosting for loopers?


> Looking to create a web site to upload some of my
> current mp3 loops to. I had a personal site many years
> ago but things have changed a lot. The info I'm
> receiving from my research is a bit daunting.
>     Quite a few of you have your own sites. Any
> recomendations? I'm not looking for freebies
> (insufficient file size upload, no mp3, etc...) + not
> looking to break the bank either.
>     I'm guessing the way to go is to register my
> domain name at "go daddy" (stupid name) seperately.
> Any feedback on how/where to proceed from there?
>                                    Thanks,
>                                           Lee
>
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