Andrea,

I contacted you off-list with a hosting --I host a few local non-profits and our bike coop and would be more than happy to let you use our account for your site too (no ethnic hacking involved -- each site uses a seperate administrative login).

Its usually best to avoid a large CMS (Joomla/Drupal) until you need it, or it would benefit you.  For a simple small site it will be more cumbersome than its worth.  Wordpress or simple HTML is much more appropriate for a small site.  If you need multiple levels of editing security -- then its time to break out the big CMS's.

Stan

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Bike City <bikecityrecyclery@gmail.com> wrote:
Well, I recently threw together some hand-written HTML and slapped it
onto a free (and ad-less) webhost. This seemed great at first,
regardless of the weird URL.

But after lots of other publicity and potential traffic, I've seen it
get hacked twice (by a radical Islamic group after the whole host,
nothing personal), and lately it's either painfully slow to load or
completely down.

So, I haven't done this for about a decade and I'm out of the loop.
I'm really not willing to suffer any ads, but since our budgeted is
obcenely limited for such fluff, does anyone have recommendations? Are
there any more reliable ad-free free hosts? (Probably not, for obvious
reasons.)

Otherwise, how do you guys handle web hosting? How much does it cost?
What's a good balance between reliable and affordable? How much is
domain registration nowadays? We don't have our 501(c)(3) status yet
so we won't get a deal until later this year, by the way.

Anyway, please help. It's rough to find time to FTP an update and find
the site's down.


Thanks,

andrea
Bike City Recyclery of Fayetteville, Arkansas
http://bikecity.uuuq.com/ (hahaha)
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