Our school website is outsourced, but on the recommendation of Arvind
Grover at Hewitt in NYC a couple of years back, I switched my personal
hosting to Site5 and have been very happy with them. They have a holiday
rebate special right now on their $7.50/month shared hosting plan that
includes a ton of storage and bandwidth and unlimited e-mails, with a
99.9% uptime guarantee.
Again, I've only used this for hosting sites that aren't generally
mission-critical for an organization, but overall I've been quite happy
with them. Disclaimer: While Site5 offers a referral program, I'm not a
part of it and am only recommending them because I've had a good
experience with them.
Good luck,
Bill
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Bill Knauer
Director of Technology
Packer Collegiate Institute
170 Joralemon Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
718.250.0273
bknauer@packer.edu
A forum for independent school educators <ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU> writes:
>I know there have to be opinions out there on this . . .
>
>: )
>
>We've been offered an upgrade by our web host, after we inquired about
>getting better spam filtering at the server. They are offering the package
>described below for US$19.95/month, which seems like a good deal.
>
>One reason we are hesitating is because their service/ response has not
>always been so great . . .As in, they seem not to answer emails, for one
>. .
>.
>
>Our needs are fairly basic – about 25 – 30 email accounts. We'd like to be
>able to put up flash video, but streaming is not in our foreseeable
>future.
>Online forms are however, as well as the possibility of a small on-line
>school store with payments via PayPal or some other such payment service.
>
>Thoughts /in put / advice greatly appreciated!
>
>--
>Norman Maynard
>Principal
>Thornton Friends Upper School
>Silver Spring, MD
>
>
> * (BTW - some of this is unclear, and some of what we will want is
>called
>an "upgrade," but I'm still wondering what other people's experiences are
>with web hosting - thanks!)
>*
>
>* Key Features*
>
>· 2.5 GB of web storage
>
>· 100 GB of bandwidth (transfer)
>
>· 350 E-mail addresses
>
>· Dedicated IP address
>
>· 24/7 customer support
>
>· Website backup
>
>· FTP access
>
>* Website Features*
>
>· Server Side Includes (SSI)
>
>· Customizable error messages
>
>· Website control panel
>
>· Web server raw logs
>
>· Website statistics
>
>· Advanced security controls
>
>· 24/7 customer support
>
>· Website backups
>
>· 2.5 GB of web storage
>
>· 100 GB of bandwidth (transfer)
>
>· Dedicated IP address
>
>· Microsoft FrontPage 2002 extensions
>
>· CGI-BIN
>
>· PERL 5
>
>· Python
>
>· PHP 4
>
>· ASP.NET <http://asp.net/> 2.0
>
>* E-mail Features*
>
>· Web E-mail
>
>· POP3 E-mail client capability
>
>· CatchGuard virus and spam protection
>
>· Additional mailboxes and storage (upgrade)
>
>· 150 E-mail addresses
>
>· 1.5 GB of E-mail storage
>
>· 1500 E-mail aliases
>
>· 150 E-mail auto-responders
>
>· E-mail forwarding
>
>* eCommerce Features*
>
>· Support for VeriSign PayFlow SDK v3
>
>· MIVA(R) Merchant™ (upgrade)A full-featured
>eCommerce tool for building and managing an online storefront with a
>shopping cart, expansive product catalog and credit card processing tool.
>
>· PayPal(R) Payment Services (upgrade)An
>online
>payment gateway that securely connects your online store to any major
>payment processor, bank, or card association
>
>· Security certificate (SSL) (upgrade)Shows
>customers your site is secure for eCommerce transactions
>
>* Marketing Features*
>
>· 50 names in E-mail Marketer
>
>· MarketBooster site promotion tool (upgrade)
>
>· Monthly search engine submission (upgrade)
>
>· Search Engine marketing (upgrade)
>
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