Web hosting?

[TexanRose]

I'd like to start a website at some point. I thought I would go ahead and reserve the domain name now and perhaps get a very basic site up and running within a few months. So I need to choose a web host. Any suggestions? I know I don't want to use GoDaddy.

I need something affordable and reliable and I need enough storage/bandwidth to host a lot of sound files.

(Hopefully I'm asking the right questions--I'm pretty ignorant about technical stuff like this!)

 

[Backwoods Presbyterian]

We use Web Hosting & Domain Names by FatCow.com and it has been very reliable and easy to use. It only cost us $59.00/year. I use Box.net | Online file sharing, content management, collaboration to host our audio files.

 

[TexanRose]

Thanks for the reply! I see that you have your sound files hosted on a different site. I would need my sound files to be playable on my main site. I know I could use a player that would read the files from a different site, but I'm afraid the player would load more slowly if I did that. So I would rather host them in the same place as the rest of the site. Hope that makes sense.

Taking a look at Fatcow.com's bandwidth and disk usage info, they warn that they might suspend accounts if you store "large numbers of video or audio files that may be associated with a site, but require more resources to support than a normal or business website would." That's kind of vague--what are large numbers?--but it makes me nervous.

Any other suggestions?

 

[Covenant Joel]

I use Knapp Technologies and have had no problem.

 

[Nebrexan]

Some guy named Rich has a Web site dedicated to the topic of Web hosting. It's got a lot of excellent content:

http://www.websitemaven.com/

Our church is using one of the recommended hosting companies and is very pleased.

 

[TexanRose]

Some guy named Rich has a Web site dedicated to the topic of Web hosting. It's got a lot of excellent content:

http://www.websitemaven.com/

Our church is using one of the recommended hosting companies and is very pleased.

Thanks, this looks helpful, and not as spammy as most of the sites about web hosting that I've seen.