Maggie Jones on thu 20 dec 07
Hi Stephani, I love your work and am envious of your facilities!
I have been using Freeservers.com for several years now. They started out
as 20fr.com but got bought out or whatever, went thru the same down times
you are talking about. It has been stable for about 3 yrs and the service
and options improve.
Pricing is real reasonable.
My son purchased my domain names for me thru joker.com It is a german
outfit that is renewed seamlessly and automatically with notifications
and confirmations... very reliable and also inexpensive. My son wrote the
redirecting files for me as well.
Freeservers has everything from simple templates to frontpage or your own
html. lots of space.
My site is a mix of mostly templates and a few html spots to insert a
photo into a textbox if i want. I don't know frontpage at all and very
little html.
happy holidays,
Maggie
http://TurtleIslandPottery.com
Maggie and Freeman Jones
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 08:09:30 -0800 stephani stephenson
writes:
> oh waa!
> in an extraordinary collision of timing. right after i
> posted workshop info yesterday my website vanished! it
> is still down ..has to do with my domain renewal
> company...each time my renewal comes up there is a
> glitch and i am reminded of the sorry state of
> customer service at the reg. co.
>
> FYI the 'manage your domain' info pages don't work at
> web .com
> so no matter how many times i have updated my info
> with them, the new info doesn't seem to make it to the
> proper file, which causes my name to automatically
> revert to another company rather than renew or even
> notify me of renewal..
>
> .i vow to switch domain registration companies each
> time , but switching at renewal time is glitchy, so
> then, yes, i admit, i stick with the old company try
> to update my info, time goes on and then i forget to
> switch... now i am bouncing around in limbo for ,
> supposedly 24 hours....
> this is one of those situations where the company
> seems to have switched hands a couple of times and ,
> though you can reach them by phone, the info is
> inconsistent....
> you feel like you are the last account on the end of a
> corroded thin wire connection, on an archaic computer
> located in the musty office down the dank hall at the
> bottom of the stairs in the dark rat infested
> basement ... the cramped and forgotten office where a
> bleary headed , formerly drug addicted nocturnal
> wraith, languidly checks their email and tech support
> tickets every 3 years, , or pretends to anyway...
>
> my webHOSTING outfit for the past year has been
> bluehost. com and i have been happy with them, and my
> new years resolution is to get the domain
> registration with them...if at all possible, as soon
> as i straighten out the bureaucratic 2 step over at
> web. com...
> yrggh! so meanwhile , anyone visiting the site today
> will get a nice
> ry this website is lost in the stratosphere"
> message from a company i don't know, fronting for
> another company which i use to know but which somehow
> morphed into a couple of other corporate
> identities.....
> everyone assures me its ...OK...but ..each time I call
> they act as if i am
> a stranger...how reassuring! maybe the grinch got a
> day job and he's tending to domain registration these
> days!
> the horror!
> melodramatically yours,
>
> Stephani 'don't look at my website' Stephenson
> :) laughing ruefully down the candycane trail!
>
>
>
>
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