But for the Internet's best deal on web hosting, look to Catalog.com.
Servants' Servant not only recommends Catalog.com to its clients,
that's the web host for the entire WriteAnswer.org
domain. Here's why:
For a one-time setup charge of $35, Catalog.com
will register your domain and provide free lifetime web hosting.
That's right: no monthly fees, no distracting advertising,
yet plenty of features, including FrontPage extensions and CGI-bin.
Keep your site under the generous 20-meg size limit, and you'll
never face a monthly bill.
What if you need more than 20 megs?
Additional space is available at a bargain price.
You don't have to take the word of
Servants' Servant. How about CNET,
which ranks Catalog.com No. 1 in budget hosting and domain
registration.
Here's what CNET said in its
review:
"If you're dying to publish your site
to the web but don't want to spend a lot of cash, look no further
than Catalog.com.
This ICANN-accredited web host is a solid performer and one heck of
a good deal: for a mere $35 per year (less than $3 per month), you
get a couple of e-mail addresses, some nice site- management tools,
stellar technical support, and 20MB of web space that can handle
500MB of monthly traffic -- large enough to support hundreds of
visitors a day.
"Combine all that with an easy
registration process and setup," says CNET, "and you'll
see why Catalog.com deserves to be your first full-fledged host.
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" Of all the Web hosts we've seen, Catalog.com
is both the easiest to set up and the least expensive. And over the
course of our month-long tests, Catalog.com performed consistently
well," CNET reports.
"Catalog.com gets you off to a running start. You'll pass
through a handful of screens to pick and register a domain and set
up hosting for a Web site and e-mail alike. After entering your
domain name, you can choose among available names in the .com, .org,
.net, .biz, or .info domains, along with variants (such as the same
name with the prefix my- or e-). If you already own a
domain and want to transfer it to Catalog.com, you can take care of
that from this page as well. Once you enter personal details and
credit card info, Catalog.com sends you e-mail explaining how to set
up an account; it then takes around 24 hours to register your site
(the standard for all domain registrars)."
You may eventually outgrow Catalog.com's
basic hosting plan and single e-mail address, but it's the best
service for beginners.
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