Comments on: Self-Hosted. Where do I start? – Finding a Web Host http://crublogging.com/self-hosted-where-do-i-start/ Advice for blogging in ministry. Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:58:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Jayson http://crublogging.com/self-hosted-where-do-i-start/comment-page-1/#comment-64 Jayson Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:27:03 +0000 http://crublogging.com/?p=152#comment-64 GoDaddy.com is primarily marketed as a domain registration service, though they do provide hosting (<a href="http://www.godaddy.com/Hosting/web-hosting.aspx?ci=8971#details" rel="nofollow">details here</a>).Though they charge more than the basic price to register a domain. Also their hosting plans are limited. As far as the storage, think hard drive. Your storage for your site is the amount of content that you can upload whether it's newsletters, videos, pictures, text, etc. To have an unlimited amount of that is awesome. You don't have to worry about uploading that 45 minute video of your best presentation of the Satisfied?! booklet ever, you have the space. Bandwidth (more properly called "transfer"), think of your water provider at home. The main thing besides the water cleanliness that they're worried about is <em>how much water did you use</em>? This is bandwidth. If you have that 45 minute video sitting on your site and no one watches it the video has no bearing on your bandwidth, just your storage. But when it goes viral because Steve Douglass tweeted about it, then your bandwidth becomes the issue because that length of a video could rate at a Gigabyte of storage and therefore a Gigabyte of bandwidth it would eat up - with a less generous host (like GoDaddy) after the 50th (or 1,500th) person watched it they'd start charging you waaaay extra for the transfer of your site. Just like when you leave your toilet running the whole time you're at CSU. "Accessible through a web page." Well, it has to be umm... accessible through a web page. If you can't go to a web page and access the content somehow it's not "accessible through a web page." Sorry for being snarky, no meanie feelings intended. The 50Gb of extra storage is not available through a web page only through FTP. (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTP" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia entry for that.</a>) GoDaddy.com is primarily marketed as a domain registration service, though they do provide hosting (details here).Though they charge more than the basic price to register a domain. Also their hosting plans are limited.

As far as the storage, think hard drive. Your storage for your site is the amount of content that you can upload whether it’s newsletters, videos, pictures, text, etc. To have an unlimited amount of that is awesome. You don’t have to worry about uploading that 45 minute video of your best presentation of the Satisfied?! booklet ever, you have the space.

Bandwidth (more properly called “transfer”), think of your water provider at home. The main thing besides the water cleanliness that they’re worried about is how much water did you use? This is bandwidth. If you have that 45 minute video sitting on your site and no one watches it the video has no bearing on your bandwidth, just your storage. But when it goes viral because Steve Douglass tweeted about it, then your bandwidth becomes the issue because that length of a video could rate at a Gigabyte of storage and therefore a Gigabyte of bandwidth it would eat up – with a less generous host (like GoDaddy) after the 50th (or 1,500th) person watched it they’d start charging you waaaay extra for the transfer of your site. Just like when you leave your toilet running the whole time you’re at CSU.

“Accessible through a web page.” Well, it has to be umm… accessible through a web page. If you can’t go to a web page and access the content somehow it’s not “accessible through a web page.” Sorry for being snarky, no meanie feelings intended. The 50Gb of extra storage is not available through a web page only through FTP. (Wikipedia entry for that.)

]]> By: Bob Fuhs http://crublogging.com/self-hosted-where-do-i-start/comment-page-1/#comment-62 Bob Fuhs Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:15:28 +0000 http://crublogging.com/?p=152#comment-62 Jayson, Great post, but I could use some more remiedial help (as might others getting started with all this). Like, what is the difference between a host and a place like godaddy.com where you register a URL? What does it mean to have unlimited storage? What is the difference between things "accessable through a web page" and things that are not? Sorry I'm so slow...:) Bob Jayson,
Great post, but I could use some more remiedial help (as might others getting started with all this). Like, what is the difference between a host and a place like godaddy.com where you register a URL? What does it mean to have unlimited storage? What is the difference between things “accessable through a web page” and things that are not? Sorry I’m so slow…:)
Bob

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