[blindkid] Website

Peter Donahue pdonahue2 at satx.rr.com
Sat Mar 26 01:56:37 UTC 2011


Hello again everyone,

    All of the same services are available from NFB Net for free. David can 
give you as much disk space and band width as you need within reason.

Peter Donahue

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Holloway" <rholloway at gopbc.org>
To: "NFBnet Blind Kid Mailing List,(for parents of blind children)" 
<blindkid at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 6:04 PM
Subject: Re: [blindkid] Website


No problem-- One correction, I just saw that offer for $1.99 a few minutes 
before I posted earlier and read it quickly. After 3 months it goes to 
$4.99, or pre-pay and the rate will stay to as low as $2.99 per month, so 3 
years could still be as cheap as about $100 but not quite as cheap as I 
thought... That's still way cheaper than "the old days" when it was hard to 
find hosting for less than about $50 a month!

That particular offer is for 10GB of hosting (storage) space and unlimited 
bandwidth. That means a decent size site and there are no other fees based 
on people accessing the site. With many hosting offers, there is a bandwidth 
limit and if you exceed it, they charge extra or else your site gets shut 
down for the rest of the month.

10 GB could host many thousands of large photos ("large" at web resolution) 
and many tens- or even hundreds-of-thousands of text-only pages. The thing 
that makes sites get huge is usually hosting video-- probably not something 
you would plan to do a lot of, and that would still host many hours of 
web-quality video.

Oh, and if you want matching email addresses, (like amber at nopbc.org, etc), 
you can host that as well (included). That same "cheap" account would let 
you host up to 100 email accounts. The main thing to watch out for is 
remembering to keep your site current. I'm quite embarrassed to say that I 
am not doing well with that on our state site but it is on my to do list. I 
need to learn to make information less time sensitive there.



On Mar 25, 2011, at 6:19 PM, Amber Hall wrote:

> Thanks for the info., very helpful.
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Richard Holloway <rholloway at gopbc.org>
> To: "NFBnet Blind Kid Mailing List, (for parents of blind children)"
> <blindkid at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Fri, March 25, 2011 4:59:32 PM
> Subject: Re: [blindkid] Website
>
> You are correct Carol. Cost varies by feature and just by host (there are
> various "brands" of the same basic product. Looks like Godaddy hosts sites 
> from
> $1.99 a month now so there are some cheap alternatives to host privately 
> for a
> reasonably small site.
>
> The other fee is for the URL, basically the name (like nopbc.org) which is 
> paid
> for once a year. That's around $10 per year. The catch there is you have 
> to find
> a name that works that nobody else on the planet already has and register 
> it.
> Godaddy.com is a good place to do that cheaply as well. Be certain to 
> auto-renew
> or risk loosing the name once you're established. You can also pre-pay for 
> up to
> around 10 years to reduce the risk with that...
>
>
> Richard Holloway, Vice President
> Georgia Organization of Parents of Blind Children
> www.gopbc.org
>
>
>
>
> On Mar 25, 2011, at 3:11 PM, Carol Castellano wrote:
>
>> Hi Amber,
>>
>> We got a volunteer to design the site and set it up for us, so that part 
>> did
>> not cost us anything.  We had to purchase the domain name and we pay 
>> about $145
>> per year for "hosting."  I think that basically means renting our little 
>> piece
>> of cyberspace.  OK, all you techies out there, tell me where I'm wrong!
>>
>> Many chapters create a page on their state NFB's website.  That's a free
>> alternative :-).
>>
>> Carol
>>
>> At 11:23 AM 3/24/2011, you wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> I am looking into having a website for our POBC in Indiana. What is a 
>>> good
> and
>>> reasonably priced way to go about this? Any suggestions or ideas are 
>>> greatly
>>> appreciated. Thanks
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>> Carol Castellano
>> Director of Programs
>> National Organization of Parents of Blind Children
>> 973-377-0976
>> carol_castellano at verizon.net
>> www.nopbc.org
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