Your mission if you choose to accept it...

Dreamhost is probably your best bet. Thats what my host uses (I don't pay for it). I just got a domain with godaddy.

How about iSykeMac or something. What are you going to use this domain for?

blog, photo hosting, personal email, and just toying around with web design because i want to go into ministry and web design would be a good tool to have. it is one of the only aspects of computers i have no experience in.

Well, its good for price, but that's about it. I'm hosted with them now, and I'm tired of the unprofessionalism of the staff, and downtime, and I think alot of the current customers are too.

They oversell their servers, which is why you get so much for so little. So instead of having x amount of people on a server like some hosts, you get x *10 or so, which is ok, aslong as people don't start to use everything that Dreamhost is providing.

If you read their blog.dreamhost.com or dreamhoststatus.com you'll find alot about what people are saying.

iheartnetty.com ?

Sorry couldn't resist. :ninja:

skye4mac.com
mac4me.com
mac4us.com

Might already be listed but too many pages for me to scan. Just some more tries!

I have decided on skye-ride.com and downtownhosting.com for hosting!

just asking a few questions to them and then going to do it?

Wow! That's cool, man! If you want any info, I'm sure Stretch can provide you with some and how it works over there.

Excellent choice. Yeah, if you need any help, I'm here, or use their excellent support.

skye-ride.com seems like a cool domain? not doo dorky?

If you like it, go for it. I think personally it sounds great! I dunno what the others think but I think it's cool.

Sounds great. Go for it!

thanks guys

should i splurge for dreamweaver, or does anybody know of any free ones?

i have iweb, maybe that is the best route?

What do you want to use your site for?

Well for your blog you might want to look at WordPress and check out the free themes.

A warning: there are a lot of themes and the Theme viewer over there is kinda wonky at the moment but you can still get to view the themes by clicking Test Run. But if you're picky about how you want your WP installation to look and you want to see all the themes it will take you a while not to mention that themes are regularly added to the ones already there, so...

Find yourself a comfy chair, order pizza and start lookin' at them there themes!

And WordPress is pretty extensible so you could use it for plenty of things.

ill probably just pick a basic WP theme.

my site is going to be for email, photo hosting, and blog.

with that info, can you guys reccomend any good webhosting progs?

I use Wordpress, and love it. Its actively developed for, and has plenty of users to ask questions if you ever run into problems.

Photo hosting is a little different though. It kinda depends on what you plan on doing with your photos, ex: photoblog, gallery, fancy gallery, etc

hmm.

it seems that i can only get it to be 4.95 a month if i pay for 3 years. but i need to pay for 3 years in advance or pay 15.95 a month.

blech. does any host have you pay monthly?

I run a couple of web sites through amhosting.com. They bill me $15 quarterly per site, and you can pay via PayPal if you wish.

Excellent service, excellent people. I've been with them for almost 5 years and have consolidated a couple sites with them that started out at other hosting companies.

yeah, they seem good. do they have direct ip address access for uploading changes?

any promo codes?

also, if i sign up through them i would love to put you as my referal so you get the promo $$

No promo codes that I know of, and you get your own ftp.domainname.com address for uploads.

If you want to use me as a referral, send me a PM with your email address and name and I'll send you the referral via their system. Thanks!