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What experiences have people had with web hosting sites and who is the best service provider?
I am currently looking at godaddy but have heard a few bad rumours about them. I want to host a website for my painting business but its hard to look for the best deal and now I am confused.
I need to build a website once the domain is registered and again face the same obstacles as everybody is offering something more than the last.
If anyone has more experience in this field or advice for a newbie it would be greatly appreciated as I am majorly wary of getting something I don't need or worse still getting conned into something for a year plus.

I have used 1&1 (1and1.com) for several years and have always been happy with them. Never had any problems and they offer a lot of features. They will do both domain registration and hosting. Also they have some tools that come with some of the packages to easily build a website if you don't want to build it manually.

NearlyFreeSpeech https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/

They are different because you only pay for what you use. No monthly payments, just deposit and if you don't use lots GBs of bandwidth you won't pay a lot. They also offer the usual services (domain registration, domain transfer, email forwarding, etc.). Oh, and free MySQL databases!
Thumbs up.

(BTW they also host www.bugmenot.com)

I have used www.dreamhost.com for my last website.

You choose to pay a year in advance and it will normally cost $119.40 but you should search google and look for a promo code for dreamhost for $97.. Make sure it is a promo code for $97 because thats the max you can get off as its linked to their referral program where the referrer decides the amount the promo code is and will receive the rest of the money themselves but there is people out there that make referral codes where they get nothing.

So $119.40 - $97 works out as $22.40 for your first year.. I think thats a good deal but I wouldnt pay the full price years after I got bored of my website and let it expire.

Oh and heres what you get for the $22.40 you spent..

1 free domain name (I chose a .com)
500 gb storage
5 TB bandwidth a month

It was good for me I got to experiment and it didnt cost me much. I never intended to keep paying full price for the next years but had a year to experiment and learn what I wanted.

dnswh.com

I get more space than I'll ever use and it costs something like $19.95/year. I've never had any bandwidth issues either, which is nice.

Do not use cedant.com -- they have been bought by aplus.net and they have the least competent technical staff in the WORLD.

Do not use 2advanced.net. They overcharge extremely and if you are not one of their higher-$$$ customers, they treat you like you're dog crap.

I've also heard good things about 1and1.

Hey thanks for all the suggestions. I went with 1and1. They seem to be good and the prices were reasonable. I think I have a bit of an addiction to setting up and buying domain names and building the websites!
I have four .coms now and all of them are relevant to my business.
I came up with a great idea last night after doing some research anf finding out that www.painttorontogreen.com was available and www.paintcanadagreen.com. I though that since its so cutthroat in the painting industry why not start something ourselves in the way of an organisation and let them cone to us.
Tell me what you think and any ides or input would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks again for the advice
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What exactly do you want to do?

1. Just have a standard point of presence website that doesn't change but allows people to get some company info and contacts?

2. Have something that does online quotes and possibly some processing?

It makes a big difference.

Like I said in the previous post I went with 1and1, apart from the upload time being horrendously laborious the service on a whole is a lot better than Yahoo. Our website was incredibly dull with the Yahoo web hosting and I was starting to worry a bit cause we can't afford to hire someone to do coding. I am currently going back to programming after having a 13 year hiatus. I was a kid with a commodore and an amstrad back in the eighties so i think I have a bit of catching up to do1
Check out the website guys and gals and see what you think. I wish i had the before and after photos but, well my brain didn't get that far just like when you write a bloody long letter on word then press the wrong button and oh lord its vansihed and you haven't saved it at regular intervals.
http://www.paintcanadagreen.com
I appreciate very much all your advice and any criticism is welcome as minds that think alike to mine where I am is a non existent thing.

The web site is fine, simple and functional.

It's not a portal, just a web site, so you could easily host it with anyone - including using free services (because it's way under page/size limits).

You really only need specialized hosting if your site is huge or if you're going to do complex things, like a portal or an extranet.

The website is, as usual, an "Internet Explorer"-only sort of thing.

I'm not sure what you have used to generate the pages, and it is quite pretty, most of the time, but fails to conform to any standards.

The front page has a serious problem with the layout of the bulleted list.

In Seamonkey, the first several entries are spread down the screen in a thin column.

In Opera, the same happens, but the panel colour is also lost.

Both the above leave a large gap before showing the footer.

Konqueror doesn't have that large gap, and is similar to Opera, except that only the first element on the list is strung out down the page.

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I rather liked the "Projects" tab. A pity, but many people will find that difficult to view. It might be nice to give users a choice of the nice, page flipping, photo album (which will take a dialup user forever to download) and a simple page of thumbnails, linking to the full size images.

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There are a whole bunch of HTML errors going on. E.g. For some reason, the code keeps re-using "id"s. You can't do that. They are supposed to be unique. Viz. 'id="MNI2"' is used on all eight tabs.

Lau, it looks like he used this this program. It's all in German, so I'm not entirely sure, but certain keywords in the HTML file seemed to lead to it.

It looks perfect in Win Firefox 2.

Edit: After just looking at the screenshot, it looks like just an HTML editor, not a builder, like FrontPage. Again, I speak with assumptions, which tend to be wrong when I make them (and then I get flamed. Whee.)

Oh Lau, picky picky

I can't believe you said this a couple of sentences apart...