Hi Folks,
I am currently toying with the idea of registering a domain name. It is something I have never done before so would appreciate advice from more experienced ALUGers on which hosting company to choose. I do not currently have a webpage/website so, although I would like to choose a company which would allow this so as to keep my options open for the future, my main purpose for registering a domain name is to be able to quote it to people to use for sending me email. I would preferably like the hosting company to allow me an infinite number of username mailboxes for incoming emails for my domain name (i.e so I can use ian@mydomainname.com, usefullmail@mydomainname.com, unwantedspam@mydomainname.com, deleteonreciept@mydomainname.com etc). I am not bothered whether I need to collect incoming emails from the hosting company myself via POP or whether they simply automatically redirect my incoming emails to my existing email account with my existing ISP.
Are there any particular domain name hosting companies more experienced ALUGers could recommend? Or, alternatively, any horror stories about experiences with other companies that people would like to share with me to warn me about them (though these negative comments may be best sent privately to me rather than posted on the public ALUG list)?
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?
Finally, a practical question about actually registering my domain name: I have noticed that some companies entries in the WHOIS database include their address and telephone number as well as a contact name. Obviously, as a private individual, I am not too keen on the entire world knowing my address and telephone number as I have enough problems with email spam and don't want this nuisance expanded with loads of unsolicited paper mail and telephone calls as well. Is the publication of address and telephone number information compulsory or is it possible to just register a contact name when registering a domain name?
Thanks in advance for your patience in answering my dumb questions!
Ian.
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 07:00:51AM -0000, Ian Douglas wrote:
Hi Folks,
Are there any particular domain name hosting companies more experienced ALUGers could recommend? Or, alternatively, any horror stories about
http://www.blackcatnetworks.co.uk are very good and I recommend them (I use them personally), if you look on the front alug page you can see they are alug donors there is also php4hosting who are also alug donors but I don't know anything about them.
Adam
we do hosting, 50 per year. domain names we can register for you, change for thet (per year) is about 30 i think (im the tech - linux guy so not too sure on what we charge). emails are infinite within your own domain, just give us a ring and we can add mailboxes. separate pop3 accounts for every email, and we can redirect any mailbox to any address. the hitch? currently IIS 5 win2k servers, which is why im not currently hosting my php-mysql-c site on them. we can do linux (redhat 8 i think), but to start selling them is going to cost us 250 a year, and so weve got to sell a few before it becomes profitable. most of the people we host for coulnt tell me what a server was, let alone the OS or needing PHP.... Tristan Scott Computer Engineer PC-Seller PLC 355 Alysham road, opposite boundary pub Norwich NR3 2RX Tel: 01603 442233 Fax: 01603 404410
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Douglas" alug@the-zub.demon.co.uk To: "ALUG List" main@lists.alug.org.uk Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 7:00 AM Subject: [Alug] Recommendations for Domain Name hosting?
Hi Folks,
I am currently toying with the idea of registering a domain name. It is something I have never done before so would appreciate advice from more experienced ALUGers on which hosting company to choose. I do not
currently
have a webpage/website so, although I would like to choose a company which would allow this so as to keep my options open for the future, my main purpose for registering a domain name is to be able to quote it to people
to
use for sending me email. I would preferably like the hosting company to allow me an infinite number of username mailboxes for incoming emails for
my
domain name (i.e so I can use ian@mydomainname.com, usefullmail@mydomainname.com, unwantedspam@mydomainname.com, deleteonreciept@mydomainname.com etc). I am not bothered whether I need
to
collect incoming emails from the hosting company myself via POP or whether they simply automatically redirect my incoming emails to my existing email account with my existing ISP.
Are there any particular domain name hosting companies more experienced ALUGers could recommend? Or, alternatively, any horror stories about experiences with other companies that people would like to share with me
to
warn me about them (though these negative comments may be best sent privately to me rather than posted on the public ALUG list)?
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?
Finally, a practical question about actually registering my domain name:
I
have noticed that some companies entries in the WHOIS database include
their
address and telephone number as well as a contact name. Obviously, as a private individual, I am not too keen on the entire world knowing my
address
and telephone number as I have enough problems with email spam and don't want this nuisance expanded with loads of unsolicited paper mail and telephone calls as well. Is the publication of address and telephone
number
information compulsory or is it possible to just register a contact name when registering a domain name?
Thanks in advance for your patience in answering my dumb questions!
Ian.
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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
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