[blindkid] Website

Peter Donahue pdonahue2 at satx.rr.com
Sat Mar 26 01:54:20 UTC 2011


Good evening everyone,

    In all of this discussion one source of Web site hosting hasn't been 
mentioned. NFB Affiliate Web Sites can be hosted on NFB Net free of charge 
leaving you  to cover the cost of domain registration only. For further 
information contact David Andrews at: dandrews at visi.com for details and to 
arrange for your affiliate's site to be hosted by NFB Net.

I currently manage a number of affiliate Web sites hosted on NFB Net and can 
vouch for this service. Hope this helps.

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 4:59 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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