Posted: 2/10/2014 3:30:43 PM EDT
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Anyone have their own website (ham related or otherwise)?
Curious who hosts the site and any other details. Not wanting to spend a fortune, but would like to have something minimal. I had one a few years ago and it ended up costing me more than I liked so I got rid of it. 
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I used web hosting hub for a while. If I did it again I would use domain.com. You can use promo code hak5 (decent show) and save some money.
When I started using whh I just wanted something simple. After I discovered I couldn't ssh into my server I was kinda ticked off, then no IRC I was done. I still have some time left on the account over there but I wont be renewing it. Mostly I just use a home computer I have setup as a server. Owncloud (personal dropbox) media goblin (photobucket) mediawiki (wiki) are all installed but I don't publicize them much technically they are the deep web 
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but would like to have something minimal. define "minimal". host pictures? host a blog? provide a comments sections? host a multi-user forum? aggregate RSS feeds from other sites? have "nifty features" -- e.g. callsign lookup or scrolling DX spots etc more questions: are you OK with inline advertising? drives cost down, clutters pages. can you admin you own site? you can host your own server at home (check your ToS). how is your content going to be different from the 10^7 people already doing this? here are a couple i look at once in a while: http://www.kb6nu.com/ http://ve3wdm.blogspot.com/ http://w2lj.blogspot.com/ http://ag1le.blogspot.com/ ps there was an ARFCOM'er who has a blog; i say "was" because he got mad that no one on ARFCOM would sign their posts with their callsign, and then he decided not to play nice with the mods over some random BS, and so he bailed. ar-jedi |
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I use IXwebhosting. Mainly because at one time I went through 4 ISP's in one year before I got with some buddies and made up my own WISP. Got tired of changing email addresses everytime and can't stand yahoo, gmail, and such. Works really good for what I use it for-my own email domain and a little two-line webpage with my callsign and map to my house for the ham club members to find their way out to my house.
YMMV, Redman |
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I have a radio-related blog. I don't do much radio anymore, though, so I can't even tell you the last time I updated it.
I use Siteground for it and a number of other sites that I run. I've never really run into any problems. I do wish I could get by their 40-recipient email limit because it causes some irritation when my wife is trying to respond to work emails (she works for a gym with a ton of people teaching classes and it's hard to send emails to everyone when she needs a sub). Aside from that I've been happy in the 4-5 years I've been with them. |
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I have my company website hosted on ipage. Cheap and easy. Email reflector too. |
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I use IXwebhosting. Mainly because at one time I went through 4 ISP's in one year before I got with some buddies and made up my own WISP. Got tired of changing email addresses everytime and can't stand yahoo, gmail, and such. Works really good for what I use it for-my own email domain and a little two-line webpage with my callsign and map to my house for the ham club members to find their way out to my house. YMMV, Redman Until I recently moved, I maintained our shooting club website and they used IX as well. Seemed like a decent company to work with. |
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Quoted: Anyone have their own website (ham related or otherwise)? Curious who hosts the site and any other details. Not wanting to spend a fortune, but would like to have something minimal. I had one a few years ago and it ended up costing me more than I liked so I got rid of it. Yes I use hostmonster.com |
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Quoted: Eff GoDaddy. They throw your site on a server with a 100 other sites. I personally use Arvixe. (Not affiliated with them other than a customer) Quoted: Quoted: Danika Patrick told me to go to GoDaddy.com Eff GoDaddy. They throw your site on a server with a 100 other sites. I personally use Arvixe. (Not affiliated with them other than a customer) I left godaddy years ago. My site couldn't get any bandwidth with all the porn websites I was hosted with. |
| Thanks for all the replies guys! There is a lot to choose from and I appreciate all your input. As I said, I'm just looking for something simple. As a personal website, I don't need to have some of the more extensive features that the commercial/business sites have. |
| I used to work for a small county newspaper and the guy runs his own web server, leases space out. I think it's like $49/month for him to host our small business website. He runs a mail server off of it as well, I don't use it as my main email, but I've got some automatic stuff that I bounce through it. My stuff is pretty simple and I just ftp the changes I need to make as I go. |
| I just use a dns service and host it on my personal server. Currently using no-ip's free service. I really only use the website to turn a virtual machine on and off that I can then VNC into. Otherwise I just have the service to ssh in and out of my home network. |
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I just use a dns service and host it on my personal server. Currently using no-ip's free service. I really only use the website to turn a virtual machine on and off that I can then VNC into. Otherwise I just have the service to ssh in and out of my home network. I used to do the same. Now our co blocks it. 
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I just use a dns service and host it on my personal server. Currently using no-ip's free service. I really only use the website to turn a virtual machine on and off that I can then VNC into. Otherwise I just have the service to ssh in and out of my home network. I used to do the same. Now our co blocks it. My ISP does as well. I run apache on port 8090 to get around it though. I run VNC on port 9000, ssh on 8900 (for my server) and 8910 (for a raspberry pi). |