The Geek Crew - Need some advice

Keledin

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Need some advice
Jun 11^th, 2008 at 12:01am

Hey everyone, I'm looking for a little advice here. Recently my guild on World of Warcraft... I'll wait while you all finish snickering... has decided to begin expanding and I've been looking into web hosting and domain name registration.

This is my first time researching this kind of thing and to be honest, I'm pretty clueless as to what I should be looking for so I've come looking for advice. What I need is simple web hosting with forums, domain name registration, and some e-mail hosting.

Do any of you have suggestions who I should host with? I've checkd out go-daddy, lunarpages, and ipower. All of them seem good, but I don't want to jump into one of them without knowing exactly what I'm getting into.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Corey

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Re: Need some advice
Reply #1 - Jun 11^th, 2008 at 10:13am

If you really want to impress your WoW friends, just get a static IP and host it yourself. If you need any help getting it set up, just let me know!

I use GKG.Net exclusively for my domain name registration and ZoneEdit.org for DNS hosting for all four of my domains, as well as my employer's domains. I've never used GKG's web hosting, but if its anything like their other services, I'm sure it's absolutely top notch. I've been with them for years and have never had a single hiccup.

-b0b
(...is still snickering, though.)

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spanky Post Whore FTP Server Offline Posts: 1540 Detroit-ish Gender:	Re: Need some advice Reply #2 - Jun 11^th, 2008 at 12:34pm Or you could tell your guild to go screw themselves and switch to horde. ...hey, it's a way to go.
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Need some advice Reply #3 - Jun 11^th, 2008 at 12:43pm spanky wrote on Jun 11^th, 2008 at 12:34pm: Or you could tell your guild to go screw themselves and switch to horde stop playing WoW . Fixed it for you.
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spanky Post Whore FTP Server Offline Posts: 1540 Detroit-ish Gender:	Re: Need some advice Reply #4 - Jun 11^th, 2008 at 2:42pm You can't just stop playing wow...you have to go to one of its sister drugs first and slowly drop off!
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Need some advice Reply #5 - Jun 11^th, 2008 at 3:35pm spanky wrote on Jun 11^th, 2008 at 2:42pm: ...you have to go to one of its sister drugs first and slowly drop off! Don't worry, Spanky. When the time is right, Cialis will be there for you. -b0b (...snickers.)
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Keledin GeekCrew n00b Offline Posts: 19	Re: Need some advice Reply #6 - Jun 12^th, 2008 at 12:04am Thanks Bob, I think I'm gonna go with GKG. I don't have the bandwidth nor the stability to host it myself and their web hosting package seems really nice.
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Need some advice Reply #7 - Jun 12^th, 2008 at 8:41am Good deal. Be sure to throw us a link when you've got it up and running! Have you picked out forum software yet? Please, for the love of all that is holy, avoid PHPbb. It's the devil. Did you got with Windows or Linux-based hosting? -b0b (...is curious.)
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Stick Wootzor von Leetenhaxor FTP Server Offline Stick is back Posts: 501 Michgan Gender:	Re: Need some advice Reply #8 - Jun 12^th, 2008 at 10:26pm windows ftw
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Need some advice Reply #9 - Jun 12^th, 2008 at 10:32pm I concur. It's a heck of a lot easier to run complex web services (like forums) on a Windows platform. Of course, the management aspects are also much simpler if you run your own box, but that's largely irrelevant with a hosted solution. -b0b (...WINdows!)
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