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Questions about hosting domain names.

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Paralyzer

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I just bought my domain name 😀 and I have some questions about hosting.

1. If I go with a free host, will I be able to leave that host and go to a pay host with more options, without having to pay a fee for transferring? I would like to just have a free host hold my domain name for a while until I can get some plans. Anyone know any good free hosts?


2. What pay-host do you think is good? My friend reccomended Ares Network www.aresnetwork.com , he said they had great uptime, fantastic technical support, and PHP/MySQL support. What do you guys think? I can't afford anything more than like, 15 bucks a month. Ares is $10 a month. I like it =D


3. I'm done =D
 
Do not sign up with Namezero. When you sign with a free service, they have your domain and you prolly wont be able to buy it off them, you can only buy hosting of it off them.
I lost like 4 domains to Namezero.................
 
Not true. I just bought my domain off of them, although it did cost me freaking $35. Or was it $25? I forget, whatever. At other places like Godaddy, I could have gotten four years for $33.

Anyway, you won't need to pay a domain transfer fee. Because you aren't transferring the domain from registrar to registrar. You are just pointing the domain name to somewhere else. For a free host, I'm not sure how you would do it. I guess you would get some domain forwarding service, which might cost some more unless the free host has name servers which I doubt. I know for godaddy, they tack on 10 bucks a year to do forwarding. When you do find another host, just forward the domain to that new address. Or if it's a real host, you'll enter in new nameservers. (DNS)...

As for webhosts. I pay $35 a year for Valuablehost.com, but they've been having trouble lately for the past month or so. I'm sticking iwth them though because my site isn't really that important. Try Web Hosting Talk for more information on hosts.
 
Holy cow, that's pretty sweet. Especially for a Windows 2000 host. But beware of these 'unlimited' hosts. Earned a bad rep on webhostingtalk. A lot of them don't last long. But since MoobyTheGoldenCalf hasn't had any problems, I might look into this.
 
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