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Topic: A way to gain website space |
John Daugherty
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Rolla, Missouri, USA
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Posted 5 Oct 2006 4:27 am |
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My local phone service is now provided by "Embarq". They use "Earthlink" as their ISP. They allot 10mb of free webspace. My website has been in use there for some time now.
Embarq now offers a 25gb file vault which is free to me as a customer.
I think I want to re-design my website by uploading all my image files and audio files to the 25gb vault and putting the links to these files on my website. This would save a lot of space on my website, where I now have the files stored.
Can anyone tell me why I should not do this? It seems, to me, to be the thing to do.
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www.home.earthlink.net/~johnd37
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Cal Sharp
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the farm in Kornfield Kounty, TN
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Posted 5 Oct 2006 5:50 am
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John, if I understand what you're saying, you want to host your site on one server and put your image and audio files on another server. No problem, it's done all the time.
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Wiz Feinberg
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Mid-Michigan, USA
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John Daugherty
From:
Rolla, Missouri, USA
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Posted 5 Oct 2006 12:18 pm
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Thanks, Cal and Wiz.
I guess I'll get busy moving files and creating links. Now I can have 25gb of webspace for free.
If I could only get Google to recognize my listings, I would be in business. It seems like they don't bother with poor folks like me. I have listed with Google several times, to no avail.
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www.home.earthlink.net/~johnd37
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Wiz Feinberg
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Mid-Michigan, USA
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Posted 5 Oct 2006 1:20 pm
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| www.home.earthlink.net/~johnd37 |
Google is not likely to index websites with paths like that. It is not hosted on commercial web space, but is a sub-folder of a sub-domain on Earthlink.net, which is an ISP. You could submit your link until the sky falls and probably not see Googlebot visit your website once. Do you even have access to your raw access logs? I doubt it.
You may want to consider getting some real webspace on a commercial hosting provider. Prices start around $4 to $5 A month for smaller websites, some with limited scripting, but for around $7 to $10 a month you can get everything you need to launch a real website, with tons of disk space and data transfer allowances, plus scriping capabilities that will make your eyes blurry. Read about these things on the page linked to above.
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[This message was edited by Wiz Feinberg on 05 October 2006 at 02:23 PM.] |
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John Fabian
From:
Mesquite, Texas USA * R.I.P.
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Tony Prior
From:
Charlotte NC
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Posted 6 Oct 2006 3:26 am
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or you could go to 1&1 and get 5 gig for $2.25/month..or 100gig for $3.74/month
www.1and1.com
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John Daugherty
From:
Rolla, Missouri, USA
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Posted 6 Oct 2006 5:03 am
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Jack Stoner steered me to "Blue Host" which looks pretty good to me. When I get some time, I'll considered using them as a host and get my own domain ID. They even have a free shopping cart and many other great options. The price is very reasonable.
Thanks again, guys, for all the good help. I really appreciate it............ JD
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Wiz Feinberg
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