Hosting (webspace) for the website
I already owned the domain name milsoms.com and have recently started a hosting account with HostGator that allows me to host as many domains as I like for a low monthly charge. I have used a lot of hosting companies before and they all seem to want to charge extra for every little feature or facility you need to have.
my experience so far, HostGator have got everything loaded into the basic account, including CGI, PHP, MySQL and loads of additional resources and scripts you can load using the amazing “Fantastico” facility - this lets you install things like WordPress (which I have used for this blog) with only a couple of clicks. It also has various FAQ, Forum and Help Desk facilities which will no doubt come in handy as I develop this project.
You have full control over your domain space and can create an unlimited number of sub-domains as well as folders within the site, e.g. http://domains.milsoms.com
These are a good way of organising “mini sites” or separate chunks of content as the search engines can treat them as a separate site and you get more focused content. Also, they can be accessed by a variety of URLs of someone gets the syntax wrong…
domains.milsoms.com
http://domains.milsoms.com
www.domains.milsoms.com
http://www.domains.milsoms.com
all work fine!
I was getting web space from UK2 but it was costing £50.00 per year plus extras for what I would consider essentials like CGI and email POP boxes - now that is all included for nothing (as I was paying the basic monthly charge for other sites as well).
Click here to find out more about HostGator yourself if you want to host multiple sites
have actually signed up for the hosting reseller package so that I can provide hosting for other people as well. At the moment I am just doing this for friends and family but there is a chance to make it a commercial part of the milsoms.com business and i will be following it up to see if I can get it working.
BTW - the Google spell checking is working really well!