looking for shared web hosting

[Michael Hong]

On Sun, 03 Dec 2006 15:05 -0500, Giles Orr wrote:
 
> I second this: buy your domain names separately from your hosting.
> The initial setup is a little more annoying, but your hosting provider
> (who should have a good help system after quizzing GTALUG :-) can walk
> you through any potential problems.  Christopher Browne covered the
> ugly scenarios that can happen if you don't own the names yourself -
> and believe me, they're real.
> 
> I registered some of my domain names with a local TO company,
> budgetnames.ca - their parent company also owns lowcostdomains.ca and
> registeryour.ca, but budgetnames.ca is the cheapest of the three (it
> offers less services).  At the time I didn't have a credit card, and I
> needed a place I could walk in with cash.  They haven't been
> enormously helpful, but it's been fine and they're both local and
> cheap.  So ... kind of a half-assed recommendation.

Thanks! I'll check those places out too.

Michael

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