I am ready to launch my jewelry web site and I was wondering if anyone could suggest a paid hosting company?

www.godaddy.com

Good Morning!

Is this the one that you use Jimena?  Do you ever have problems with the server being down for any length of time?  Do they provide you with a "hit" report etc.?

Thanks!

Linda

Morning,

Yep, this is the one I use.  My husband is a web designer/programmer and this is the one he uses.  We didn't host the website on my husband's server to avoid any problems because he knew I would flip if the server was down one day.    So far there have been no problems.  They do give you all the stats regarding your site.  I am still no quite sure what all the info means. They don't directly say there were ___ hits today.  You would have to ask them.  Maybe once you figure it out you can let me know.    Well, I hope the info was helpful.  Let me know if you have anymore questions.

I use doteasy.com. No charge for a website except to transfer the domain name which is $35.00 per year. I've been with them for several years now with various web sites and they've been great. If you want all the bells and whistles the cost is $7.95 or $9.95 per month which I think is probably one of the lowest prices around.

Well I used moniker for my domain name, but I'm not using a paid hosting site (yet).  I'm sort of trying out 110mb.com since they are free and don't place ads on your site, and the reviews for them haven't been too bad.  Unfortunatly I've not had the time to really devote to working on this much so I haven't had a chance to really try it out to see how good/bad it is. 

The one piece of advice I recieved when researching hosting sites and registering domains, is to go through two seperate companies for each.  This way if you have a problem with one, you still have the other one, and don't loose it all in one go.  A number of comments I've read is that your better off not getting hosting from a company that primarily does domain name registrations; usually the hosting service turns out to not be that great - again from comments on a number of forums and sites I've visited.  Hence I went ahead and went with two seperate services.

Also google any company you are thinking about going with and see what kind of comments there are.  GoDaddy for instance was mentioned above, and I've seen both good and bad comments about them.  So you really have to read what you can find and take it with a grain of salt, then decide what will work best for you.

We used IPOWER (ipower.com). They always gave us excellent customer service.

 I tried godaddy with poor results.  I would recommend http://www.webstorenow.com.  They are
very easy to use with a lot more features then godaddy and none of that annoying advertising and selling you up on services that you have to wade through with godaddy.  Webstorenow has a ten day no obligation free trial.  I've been using them for a year and a half and am very happy with the service and features.