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Geek Culture / what is the best site to by domain names, email, and webforwarding???

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smiley
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Posted: 9th Dec 2007 18:29
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i want to by a domain name (.com and .co.uk) and email addresses for those sites also i need a web forwarding service
what is the best site to find all this on(for cost and customer service)

i have looked at godaddy but it seems a bit expensive to me but what do i know please set me straight if I'm wrong.

if you carn't understand what i have put please ask politly for me to rephrase it

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bitJericho
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Posted: 9th Dec 2007 18:31 Edited at: 9th Dec 2007 18:34
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Email addresses are normally offered through your hosting service.

You'd be much better off instead of trying to do this, to do it properly. Buy a domain and a regular hosting package. Your hosting package holds your email, and your domain points to your webhost.

I'd recommend spidahost.com for hosting and domains. (their customer service is the best ive ever had from a hosting company, that includes godaddy (by far).)

Oh, and just a tip it's good idea not to compare bandwidth from one company with another, most hosts "oversell", meaning they sell more bandwidth than they can afford, in the hope that their customers will not use all of it. With spidahost, you actually get what they are offering.


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thanks (what u described is what i meant an all in one package)

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Posted: 9th Dec 2007 18:35 Edited at: 9th Dec 2007 18:36
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that site isn't very helpful to me as i have already got a website but i want to get a domain for it and some email addresses
any others???

http://www.ocgames.tk
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Keo C
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Posted: 9th Dec 2007 18:39
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You host it there.


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bitJericho
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Posted: 9th Dec 2007 18:48
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Right, I was saying, I recommend you move your website so you get an all in one package. That's emails, domains and webhosting.


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bitJericho
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As an afterthought, if you don't want to move your site, their service is so cheap it's still the best if all you're going to use it for is email. What you can do is setup an index page on spidahost to point to your true webhost.

http://www.webconfs.com/how-to-redirect-a-webpage.php

So you create an html file called index.php and paste the php solution from the above in your html file. Whenever someone goes to www.whatever.com it will forward them to the domain where your real website lives.


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CattleRustler
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Posted: 9th Dec 2007 19:02 Edited at: 9th Dec 2007 19:04
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I use Active-Domain for my mod2software.com domain (currently unhosted) they are pretty cheap and you can have a bunch of email addresses, and forward them etc. I just renewed my domain for 2 years and added a whois shielding service to it, all for 20 bucks

http://www.active-domain.com/

keep your domain registrar and your web hosting separated

My DBP plugins page is now hosted [href]here[/href]
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bitJericho
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Posted: 9th Dec 2007 19:05
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Quote: "keep your domain registrar and your web hosting separated"


I do as well, I get my domains from domainsite.com.


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thanks to all of you
cattle rustler i think i might do as you have suggested but still thanks to every one

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1and1.com has been very good to me. and cheap as well

[href]www.savethegrunts.org[/href]
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jasonhtml
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Posted: 9th Dec 2007 20:20
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the best and cheapest one has got to be godaddy.com
my dad has used it for his company and ill be using it for my website once its finished. their service is very good and so is their tech support. hope that helps

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thank you and yes i agree that godaddy is very good
(i thought it was expensive because it was giving the price in $ and my currency is £)

so in 2-3weeks i will have my domain name and every thing

i haven't heard of 1and1 but i will check it out but i will probably go with godaddy

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do yourself the favor of not hosting with the domain registrar. come to the host with a domain already registered elsewhere. the reson being, if you get into any kind of dispute, or the hosting sucks and you want to move, if the same company holds control over your domain name and the hosting, youre screwed if you want to move to another host. Basically they will lock you out of your own domain. Its not worth the trouble, and its effortless to do the two steps separately.

good luck however you go

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I use ifyouhaveadomainnameinmindyoucanbuyitfromus.com
sorry lame joke

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www.com
That actually works!
And theres one called, uhm, www.Gooooooooooooooooooooooooogle.com
Or something like that.
And they're both domain registras.


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