Talk-Polywell.org

Anybody here have their own domain name? I used to, but only used it to connect to my Angelfire website. You may have noticed I have not updated it in years ... I lost the password and changed my e-mail, so I can't get back in.

My big need is to be able to keep my e-mail address even if I change my ISP. I hate being trapped. I would have quit Verizon last month, except too many people need to reach my via my Verizon account.

Any recommendations as to reasonably-priced and reliable webhosting outfits, that won't clutter my page and e-mail with ads? It would be nice to have a place to put up all my fusion stuff.

I've used www.webhostingpad.com and have nothing bad to say about them at all.

A quick look on the website - they're doing a $1.99/mo deal *today only*, by the look of it. Oh well... I pre-paid 24mths at $3.95 a few months ago, still, I think that was a good deal....

(let me know if there's anywhere to be entered for 'commission'!!!)

A commission? At that price?

Thanks, I'm signed up already. Now let's see how fast I can get tomligon.com up and running again.

I hope Tom Ligon the actor doesn't mind. I've been stealing his thunder. Right now if you type "Tom Ligon" in Google, it suggests Tom Ligon Fusion.

Tom Ligon wrote:A commission? At that price?

I'm a bit of a cheap-skate really (which is why I found them - I invest far too much time looking for good deals to save a few cents - typical engineer's behaviour; to 'optimise cash flow' and very little to do with actual real time/money savings!!)

Tom Ligon wrote:Anybody here have their own domain name? I used to, but only used it to connect to my Angelfire website. You may have noticed I have not updated it in years ... I lost the password and changed my e-mail, so I can't get back in.

My big need is to be able to keep my e-mail address even if I change my ISP. I hate being trapped. I would have quit Verizon last month, except too many people need to reach my via my Verizon account.

Any recommendations as to reasonably-priced and reliable webhosting outfits, that won't clutter my page and e-mail with ads? It would be nice to have a place to put up all my fusion stuff.

Have you considered yahoo or gmail as a fall back account?

Simon, I did consider it. I actually have a dummy Yahoo account needed for access to a particular website on Yahoo.

There is a benefit in having my own domain name. I'm working on a novel, and have works in a couple of anthologies I'm helping promote, so it is nice if somebody looks me up to have an easy url to remember. I had tomligon.com linked to the angelfire site in the distant past, but they could not notify me to renew ... I'd dropped CompuServe, and they must not have had my mailing address. For two bucks a month, this is hard to beat. I could, if I didn't like the renewal, move the domain to another web host, e-mail and all.

Anyway, if you guys want to see Bart and Homer working on my website, that's the home page at tomligon.com until I can get the FTP tool to connect. It will be rough for a week or so.

I use filezilla [freeware], very easy to use, works well...I liked the Bart aswell, another small plus!! Hope it works well for you - at $2/mo, how can you complain!!!!...

I see you have already signed up so this is just for later reference or someone else may find useful. I have used flexihostingfor the past six years and never noticed a problem. It a little more expensive but then if you are using it for business you don't necessarily want the absolute cheapest. Perhaps just a coincidence but www.webhostingpad.com took three tries over a minute before the page showed up instead of returning "site not found" - though this could been my connection.


Flexihosting Features
fantastico - I see this is also shown in the webhostingpad features. They look fairly comparative for features.
The flexihosting interface can be tested here

Pricing
http://flexihostings.us/web/compare_che ... _plan.html

Heres my test results from http://thednsreport.com/time.php
It failed about 25% of the time. Could just be transitory.

DNS time lookup for www.webhostingpad.com
lookup www.webhostingpad.com at A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET(198.41.0.4) 308 ms
A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET(198.41.0.4) refer to A.GTLD-SERVERS.NET(192.5.6.30)
lookup www.webhostingpad.com at A.GTLD-SERVERS.NET(192.5.6.30) 237 ms
A.GTLD-SERVERS.NET(192.5.6.30) refer to ns1.webhostingpad.com(216.239.135.2)
lookup www.webhostingpad.com at ns1.webhostingpad.com(216.239.135.2) 5014 ms
error, nameserver: 216.239.135.2 does not respond

I tried the same on tomligon.com. I got similar results, consistently 750 ms when it worked (a little deeper url into the host), but occasionally a 5012 ms and connect failure. I gather this is a timeout.

I've never had it fail to connect just trying tomligon.com. Possibly it is a little slow, but I have not noticed. Poking around the control panel last night I noticed the server I'm on has a 200 user limit. It may need to periodically burst information to the rest of the system, causing a few seconds of delay. Obviously, enough users on the server simultanelously transferring large files will hold things up.

Since I'm not a "power user" I'm not overly concerned. I'm paid up for 3 years one way or another. If I need to move to another host it is apparently straightforward, and all I lose is a few bucks.

I'm going to post the link here just so the searchbots, particularly Google, can find it. There is not enough on it right now to be worth going to see, and half the links are dead yet.

http://www.tomligon.com/

Tom Ligon wrote:I'm going to post the link here just so the searchbots, particularly Google, can find it. There is not enough on it right now to be worth going to see, and half the links are dead yet.

http://www.tomligon.com/

You are now on the sidebar at Power and Control and IEC Fusion. That should help raise your Google Score.

And you are now on the Polywell page, with a tag that says "Simon says, check out the sidebars!" Ain't we a pair?

The website is still very rough, over half the original is still not up in the new one.