[blindkid] Website

[Richard Holloway]

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
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> National Organization of Parents of Blind Children
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