Blew the fuse in my multimeter, wanted to replace it, grabbed it, but

a lot of money that way :-)

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a lot of money that way :-)

Yes, there are cheaper ones. But you have to watch it, sometimes the deals are "... with the purchase of ...". I like peace of mind, paying twice a year and the big hosting company takes care of everything. Also, I am pretty selective about whom I give my credit card number to.

That's quite a drop from a few years ago.

Yeah, they upped the price last year, from around $60/year to $80/year. Thought about switching but didn't want the hassle. Plus they threw in unlimited traffic so if your site gets attacked you won't get nailed with huge overages or a shutdown.

a lot of money that way :-)

My provider has a deal like that as well. But didn't you read the fine print? Quote from your link: "Promotional price is for the first term only. Plans renew at the regular rate."

Click on full features list, scroll down and, tada, the regular rate is $7.95. According to my computation machine that comes to $95.40. Ahm ... where's the savings here?

Depends on the time of the day :-)

Me too but I had to hit the reload button a few times, have had similar issues in the past.

Zwirner

I have to turn off ADSL modem for > 20 minutes to let the other end realise there's a problem and reset itself. Told to me by the ISP.

If I don't stay off for that time I get unreliable connection, many dropouts for days! So far, the unplug modem and wait has worked every time to regain a reliable connection after short power outage.

I used to have dialup setup in the old lappy, but recently put in a new hard drive, must find a couple minutes to set that up again, just in case.

Grant.

ISP

makes a lot of money that way :-)

Half price for the first two years is no savings?

Zwirner

though..

That must be some raggedy old piece of hardware at your ISP. When my DSL goes on the fritz which doesn't happen much anymore I turn off and right back on, maybe 2-3 seconds. No problems. It's AT&T.

Do it before it happens and you absolutely have to get that one email out, then start scrambling for the install disks with a flashlight in hand while depleting precious battery juice :-)

ISP

makes a lot of money that way :-)

Says one year under "Get Started". And no, it's not saving. I think long term and don't want to play "musical sites" with my host sites.

On a far less grandiose plan (limited disk space and bandwidth, but unlimited email addresses), and you'll need to register your domain as a separate deal (godaddy is $3.01/year cheaper than their default) my provider does $25/year ($35 with the default $10 name service provider - I think I'm switching to godaddy this year for that part, but only that part.) Service is good on the whole, some occasional outages. More stuff available for more money.

If you need a buttload of space or bandwidth, there may be cheaper suppliers. Whether they are less expensive (rather than just cheaper) may vary. I've really only used two, and the first one just became too annoying as well as too expensive (by clinging to 1998 pricing for space well into the mid-2000's among other sins) - meanwhile, the price at ASO stays the same, but space and bandwidth limits doubled this spring.

Phil -- See my earlier post. Those glass fuses are actually glass "sleeves". You can suck out the solder that holds the fuse wire in place. Then, just re-thread a new wire (preferably the approximate same AWG), and solder the ends back up.

Of course, you could just tack a wire over the glass, but that's not as elegant.

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makes a lot of money that way :-)

That does appear to be a good offer. Have you used them before? Happy with their service? What's their shopping cart look like? Worth it?

I'm sort of in bed with 1and1, and mostly happy with them. Their rates are comparable, (not enough to matter), but IMO, their PHP and dot-net support is pretty "iffy". There's some webfix stuff you need to do in code (particularly for outbound HTML mail!), which you pretty much have to be a genius to figure out. And I don't think they include a shopping cart, but they might. (?)

I normally use ProStores for any turn-key shopping sites I'm asked to set up. Expensive, but it does everything, including eBay, invoicing and shipping integration. Why reinvent the wheel?

Hey -- supposed to dip into the 60's tonight!!! Enjoy it while it lasts. August will be here before we know it!

-mpm

ISP

makes a lot of money that way :-)

I know several web designers with dozens of customers hosted by them, and they are very happy.

I've never used a shopping cart on a website.

Agreed. I don't know what program they are using.

I had to crank the windows shut at 4:00 AM the other day, when it dropped into the low '60s in my bedroom.

ISP

makes a lot of money that way :-)

Some hosts run frequent specials, and and you can pay for a two year contract at $3.95/month.

Use whatever you like. It was posted to give some people an idea of the lower hosting costs. You would complain if they paid you to use it, anyway.

I am actually using Microsoft Office Live to host my little website, and my company domain name. It is $15 a year...

Charlie

I should have qualified that with, "...for the features it seems that you [Joerg] are after, your guys were right on top..."

$15 is great though... is that the "regularly" price (vs. just promotion for a year or two)? How much space and bandwidth do you get for it?

I've used x10 "premium" hosting in the past, although I was after a combination of "reasonably cheap" and "I want shell access" -- the later desire removing many potential web hosting services entirely from consideration. The plan I have is all of $35/year, if I'm recalling correctly, but it's capped at 20GB/month bandwidth and 500MB disk space.

---Joel

So what POS meter is this anyway?

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For that kind of money, I think I'll consider posting a one-page website, one that emulates the"Blue Screen of Death", and post Microsoft's help desk number on it. Just for revenge! :)