On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 07:00:51AM -0000, Ian Douglas wrote:
I live in Ipswich. If I find any small, local, domain name hosting companies would ALUGers recommend I use them or should I choose one of the big companies based in America?
Well, I don't want to squash the little guys, but I have to say my domain/hosting is very cheap.
10 squid for two years, .co.uk from Easily.co.uk Infinite addresses sent to up to 20 different mailboxes (not included) Website redirection, with or without URL spoofing (with frames) Control centre on the web Maybe a couple of other little bits and pieces
This is so cheap I have two, one for personal one for business. It's 10 to renew as well, they don't hit you with a massive fee after you've got settled in.
36 euros (so ~23 squid) for lifetime shell account from sdf-eu.org 100mb home, 100mb web, 100mb mail one time donation for membership voting rights on system features and policies private 'arpa' member server telnet, ssh, ftp, ytalk, irc, snarf gcc, lisp, perl, python, ruby, et cetera
plus all features of the 'users' account: mutt, pop3, webmail, icq, chat, bboard ping, games, TOPS-20, mud plus more - after account validation - elm, pine, mailx, rmail, lynx, cgi/php4 bash, ash, ksh, tcsh, rc, zsh, tclsh http://yourlogin.sdf-eu.org hundreds of UNIX utilities
SDF is goood. If redirection to 20 mailboxes isn't enough, send it all to your SDF account and use procmail to redirect it. The page doesn't list it, but they do have PHP (www.ikitten.co.uk, fx). You can buy all kinds of extras like DB access if you want it.
The SDF users account is actually free (I think you have to send him a dollar which you get back if you really want it), but then you have to use arcane stuff like zmodem not ftp. Go for the lifetime. They've been running since... well, at least 1985, that's when the first picture is from.
Cheers, Alexis