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that’s the rub about paying in advance. You might save a few dollars but then again they might not be around by the time it ends.
The only solace I can think of is that you take the knowledge to bed with you that this place will never truly be prosperous, and will likely be non-existent in the coming future.
I’m amazed that a business which obviously lives or dies on whether a customer continues … would be stupid enough to shit on a customer willing to pay a year in advance.
…. they won’t be around long.
Post your problem here xhttp://www.webhostingtalk.com/ ( Remove the x ) someone there might be able to point you in the right direction and help you. Although I think you may have to put this down to experience and move on.
I went to that web hosting forum and got completely disoriented.
I really know very little about hosting, i used this aplus place because they use a trellix site builder, and that’s the only one i know how to use, i haven’t tried any others because they don’t let me sample it 1st, and i don’t want to spend money and find out that i can’t use the service.
I was thinking about godaddy, but many people say they suck, especially on that forum, now i’m thinking about using lycos.
Can you recommend some places that you have had good experiences with.
I would appreciate that, thanks again.
I would recommend buying either Frontpage or Dreamweaver and use it to build your sites. That way you can host anywhere you like. They are both what-you-see-is-what-you-get and fairly easy to learn. I use godaddy for hosting and have no problems yet, but I build my own sites.
Run. Run fast. aplus.net is one of the most horrible companies on the Internet. I’m sorry you paid for a year in advance. I’ve never dealt with them but knew enough not to. They used to use peoples’ websites to run cloaked links at the bottom.
Quote:April 26, 2004 — Web hosting provider Aplus.net admitted last Friday that it “cloaked” customer’s Web sites with hidden code in order to boost its search engine rankings, but said that it had removed the links as soon as it became aware of them.Also in April of 2004 I bought a new domain. The next day I woke up and found a voice mail on my cellphone. It was aplus.net trying to solicit business from me. Needless to say I didn’t call back, and they wouldn’t have wanted me to.
Unfortunately you’ve just run into a very bad company, and I’m not really sure what you can do about it. I can say for future reference if you’re looking for a company, go back to WHT and search the company name. You’ll find out rather quickly if they’re worth dealing with or not.
pokermonger wrote:I would recommend buying either Frontpage or Dreamweaver and use it to build your sites. That way you can host anywhere you like. They are both what-you-see-is-what-you-get and fairly easy to learn. I use godaddy for hosting and have no problems yet, but I build my own sites.I like this guy’s site, the design and layout
http://www.live-online-poker-game.com/
I saw you commented on it as well
What type of site builder program would you use for something like this, because i can’t get anything like this on the trellix builder
Sorry for posting the stupid newbie questions, but how would i go about doing this
Do i build the site in a site builder program, save it to my computer, find a host, and transfer the files over to them.
Like i said, i’ve only used the trellix builder, like the free lycos.tripod ones
It’s probably easier than i think, since millions are doing it
I’ll check those programs out, i think i have the Dreamweaver on CD, but i lack patience, when my pages load slowly i start smacking my computer, my attention span is shot.
Thanks for the tip anyway
So godaddy is the way to go ?
I heard that a while ago, but recently i’ve heard bad things about them, and they appear to be true.
mobilebadboy wrote:Run. Run fast. aplus.net is one of the most horrible companies on the Internet. I’m sorry you paid for a year in advance. I’ve never dealt with them but knew enough not to. They used to use peoples’ websites to run cloaked links at the bottom.Also in April of 2004 I bought a new domain. The next day I woke up and found a voice mail on my cellphone. It was aplus.net trying to solicit business from me. Needless to say I didn’t call back, and they wouldn’t have wanted me to.
Unfortunately you’ve just run into a very bad company, and I’m not really sure what you can do about it. I can say for future reference if you’re looking for a company, go back to WHT and search the company name. You’ll find out rather quickly if they’re worth dealing with or not.
Oh great
Thanks for that, they are ridiculous, the good news is my affiliate links already covered the aplus fees, so i can move on knowing i just lost my temper a few times.
Who should i use ? or better yet, Who do you use ?
I like the look of your site, what program did you use to create it, if you don’t mind me asking.
I really know very little about hosting, i used this aplus place because they use a trellix site builder, and that’s the only one i know how to use, i haven’t tried any others because they don’t let me sample it 1st, and i don’t want to spend money and find out that i can’t use the service.
I understand not wanting to spend money first, and then finding it’s too complicated to use or you don’t like the service for some reason. But essentially you did that anyway here. Even though you did get a money back guarantee for 30 days and maybe a free trial, you still paid a year in advance and are in the same or worst position as if you paid for a shorter time wihtout a free trial somewhere else.
I recommend 1and1.com. I use them and have for a year now. I pay for 3 months at a time and it is extremely cheap and you get a LOT for your dollar. They have 24/7 support, and my sites are up 99.9% of the time.
They also have a lot of tools that are very simple to understand and use in the admin control area of your account. Even having no knowledge at all.
Although they don’t have a free trial, they do have a 90 day money back guarantee.
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At 1&1, we take pride in our reputation of reliability and are highly confident in our range of quality products and services. We want to make sure our customers are equally satisfied. If you decide that you are not completely happy, within 90 days from when your initial order was placed, you’ll receive your money back – no questions asked.The 1&1 90-day Money Back Guarantee applies to the Instant Mail and Instant Website packages as well as all Shared Hosting plans, SharePoint or Exchange Hosting packages and eShops. You will receive a full refund of all monthly fees and setup fees if you are not completely satisfied. Guarantee starts on the date your initial order was placed. You may cancel at any time within 90 days of this date.
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Industry-leading 18,000 MBit fiber connectivity
99.9% Server uptime
Quickly and easily create your website or eShop and be online in no time
Prices are all-inclusive with no hidden charges
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Incredible value for your money!You can choose to have your account hosted on Microsoft or Linux, the price is the same I believe.
They require you to pay for a minimum of 3 months at a time on the business plan or 6 months on the Home plan. They’re so cheap it’s nothing.
Starting at $4.99 a month (x 6 months) which is only $30 out of pocket total you have 6 months paid and it comes with one domain you can pick a brand new domain, any that is available of course, and not just the hosting but the registration for the new domain is included in your price. 1000 mb web space which is quite a lot especially if you’re a beginner. I’ve not even come close to filling up my space. 25 GB of monthly transfer volume, 1 ftp account, 200 email accounts, 10 subdomans, 50 external domains, software, newsletter tool, statistics, cgi scripts and a whole slew of other features.
This also includes a very easy to use site builder. There is a preview/trial that you can test from their site to test the site builder for yourself and to see just how easy it is to use. I’m not sure if allowed to leave that link here, please remove it if not but here’s the link to the site builder Preview Site Builder / Trial
They also have a DynamicSiteCreator that you can create interactive flash sites without any experience.
I use Frontpage for my sites, they support Frontpage Extensions.
My experience with them for the last year has been a good on, no problems, support has been great and I think when you see what all you get for the price compared to other hosting options, you’ll see that it’s VERY inexpensive.
An upgrade to the business package which offers 3 new domains included and a whole lot more of everything, is only $9.99 a month with a min. pmt. of 3 months. That’s what I have.
Either way your initial cost is only about $30.00. That’s a 90 day guarantee, and 3-6 months prepaid.
This was my first time ever with a host or anything like this. I knew nothing. Someone recommended this to me, and I figured for $30 I wasn’t going to lose too much if it didn’t work out or I didn’t do anything with the domains. You’re not on any contract or anything either. I think it comes with a free webcam right now too, not sure.
So even though you don’t get a free trial for their service. $30 is practically free in my opinin and a 90 day money back guarantee is better than what you got now. You can’t lose and I’m happy after a year.
I know I sound like I must work for them, but I’m just an extremely happy customer who also knew nothing about any of it when I started my package a year ago.
By the way, I started with the Home Package for $4.99 a month and upgraded later to the Business package for $9.99 a month. I really don’t need the Business package and don’t use 1/10th of all that it comes with. But if you ever need to upgrade, or change servers from MS Hosted to Linux Hosted or visa versa, there is no extra charge for that and they’ll do it any time. I also switched from Linux to MS (stupid move, now I want to switch back to Linux to get PHP instead of ASP).
If you find you have to move on to another hosting company, you might want to take a look at the features 1and1 offers for the price.
I’m sure that there are some that could build a site like that with Frontpage, which is what I use, but I couldn’t. I have been told by a couple people who have nice sites that Dreamweaver is better, but I haven’t made the switch yet. Look at my two sites in my sig. That is about the best I can do with Frontpage, but I am not much of a computer guy so I am happy. Also, each site I build turns out a little better than the last IMO. Practice, I think.
Many, many don’t like godaddy. There are many options, they are just who I use and haven’t had any trouble.
Yes to your other question. You build the site on your computer, find a host and transfer the files to the host.
One last thing. There are no stupid newbie questions. If some of the folks here hadn’t answered my own similar questions, I would have given up a long time ago.
I had used LinuxWebHost since 2000 until a couple of months ago. Their prices are a bit higher now and there are probably better packages elsewhere for the same price. I was grandfathered in to the old prices. The thing that kept me with them was their support was absolutely awesome. If I had a problem it was never more than 24 hours before it was solved, and not even really close to 24 hours. They were the first non-free host I ever worked with.
I’m now on a dedicated server at Gnax (Tranxactglobal to be exact). I’ve never read anything but good things about them and their support has been excellent just in the couple of months I’ve been there. The server I got seems to be sold out at the moment, which was about the cheapest. I was paying the same amount of money for all my separate shared hosting accounts at LWH.
I do all my graphics stuff (like the header of my casinos site) in Photoshop. Anything else is hand coded in Notepad. Been hand coding since I started making websites and that’s been more than a decade ago.
pokermonger wrote:I’m sure that there are some that could build a site like that with Frontpage, which is what I use, but I couldn’t. I have been told by a couple people who have nice sites that Dreamweaver is better, but I haven’t made the switch yet. Look at my two sites in my sig. That is about the best I can do with Frontpage, but I am not much of a computer guy so I am happy. Also, each site I build turns out a little better than the last IMO. Practice, I think.Many, many don’t like godaddy. There are many options, they are just who I use and haven’t had any trouble.
Yes to your other question. You build the site on your computer, find a host and transfer the files to the host.
One last thing. There are no stupid newbie questions. If some of the folks here hadn’t answered my own similar questions, I would have given up a long time ago.
Ok, i’ll check these things out
I just got off the phone with aplus, they again told me my site is working fine, what a bunch of idiots.
I can’t even log in to my control panel, they even ripped me off on the e-mail service too, all my e-mails registered to my site are bouncing back as undeliverable.
What a nightmare
Dee made a good point about paying a year in advance, but i’ve been using the lycos.tripod free service, like this site i have been working on
http://theluckylooter.tripod.com
and my only concern at the time was knowing i could use the site builder, which was the same as the lycos one.
I will check out Dee’s service, hopefully she gets commission if i join.
Pokermongor, i like that guy’s site because it has impact, it has a nice shine to it, like a new car.
*note
that site i created is primarily for amusing my buds, it should not be taken seriously, this is the only place i’ve put a link to it, just to give an example of the trellix builder and the layout/design options.
Try Freewebz
I think they give you 50 megs of free web space, and no popups or banners at all. They politely ask you to place a small text link they have at the bottom of each of your pages and if you don’t comply with that and they catch you, they will disable that account. They don’t force that link there but trust you to put it there.
They have also a site builder that is very easy to use.
If you’re using a free site, I prefer that one. I really hate being forced to have popups/banners or any ads. None here.
I use hostgator personally and love them to death
reseller account gives you unlimited urls!
they are highly rated if you check around for host ratings ( i spent a while before selecting them)
I also use 1and1 for some of my other sites not related to gambling and have had zero problems with them but the traffic limit was rough once i surpassed it !
nick777 wrote:I like this guy’s site, the design and layouthttp://www.live-online-poker-game.com/
I saw you commented on it as well
Thanks for your kind words nick777.
I used Textpattern to build the site, I used to use this free sofware to build other sites as well (when my clients don’t want a specific solution). It has a bit long learning curve in the beginning, but after your first site you can make a site like mine in 3-4 days. It has very good SEO features (like clean urls, page rendering in XHTML/CSS, and a backend administrator interface where you can update your site just by typing the content and upload files, images, etc). Last but not least it has a great community forum, where ppl can help you in any issue. It can accelerate your site updates because you dont have to edit all your pages manually and dig in the code.
There are a lot of other tools like this out the web, Movable type, WordPress, Symphony, and they are easy to learn and could make your life easier and most of them are free.Good luck!
sipka wrote:Thanks for your kind words nick777.I used Textpattern to build the site, I used to use this free sofware to build other sites as well (when my clients don’t want a specific solution). It has a bit long learning curve in the beginning, but after your first site you can make a site like mine in 3-4 days. It has very good SEO features (like clean urls, page rendering in XHTML/CSS, and a backend administrator interface where you can update your site just by typing the content and upload files, images, etc). Last but not least it has a great community forum, where ppl can help you in any issue. It can accelerate your site updates because you dont have to edit all your pages manually and dig in the code.
There are a lot of other tools like this out the web, Movable type, WordPress, Symphony, and they are easy to learn and could make your life easier and most of them are free.Good luck!
I’m redoing my site and set up the layout to look more like yours, instead of the original banner farm i had going, here’s a quick preview
http://www.superiorgaming.net/poker/
the 3 column page looks better than what i have at the moment
http://www.superiorgaming.net/pokerrooms.html
Following the advice of the people here, who reviewed my site, they were in fact correct, i think the new page looks much better than the depressing navy blue, as somebody mentioned.
Thanks for the help with your hosting suggestions
Would you believe that the problem was between Aplus and my isp provider Rogers, they got their DNS signals scrambled. It still doesn’t work for me, or anyone who uses rogers, i have no way of knowing if it works for everyone else, here is the url i can’t see, but everyone who doesn’t use Rogers can apparently
http://www.superiorgaming.web.aplus.net/poker/
removing the web.aplus. from that url makes the page work properly, but it’s supposed to work either way, because they are the same.
3 hours of tech assistance, and i learned what reproprigate means
How does something like this happen, it worked fine, but the last couple months it hasn’t worked.
We did a check, typing in the ip address in the navigation passed the test, typing in the url brought up a yahoo search page, it should’ve brought up my site.
What does that mean, is Yahoo responsible for something here.
