I believe you can get free hosting through the BCN. Jonathan from Salt Lake will know for sure, I'm sure he'll chime in here.

Also if you're moving the site I highly recommend running it on Joomla!

Ride On! Rich

Bike City 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) _______________________________________________ Thethinktank mailing list Thethinktank@bikecollectives.org To unsubscribe, send a blank email to TheThinkTank-leave@bikecollectives.org To manage your subscription, plase visit: http://lists.bikecollectives.org/listinfo.cgi/thethinktank-bikecollectives.o...

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.comwrote:

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) _______________________________________________ Thethinktank mailing list Thethinktank@bikecollectives.org To unsubscribe, send a blank email to TheThinkTank-leave@bikecollectives.org To manage your subscription, plase visit:

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