Web hosting and domain registration.

Forbe!

I am graduating from college soon, and as a studio arts major, it would be in my best interest to get my portfolio/resume on the interweb.

How much is a good price for web hosting/domain registration?

What is a good company to go through?

I have a web developer friend who will make the webpage, and I can take care of the designing, I just know nothing about hosting.

I need sufficient space for plenty of fairly large images. I doubt I will get much traffic, but I would like to be able to quickly upgrade if the need be.

urahonky

http://order.1and1.com/xml/order/Home;jsessionid=3555B3093190AFE106631E49E3AFBEAD.TC61a?__reuse=1237018711098

(that long ass link is for 1&1) I've had them for about two years now and they are really reliable and really cheap. I think I have about 300GB worth of data for $60 a year.

Bartholamue

Yeah, I had free hosting at 1and1 for three years and they were pretty good.

Ponge

For your portfolio I would recomend you try http://www.indexhibit.org/

It's not web hosting, it's just an opensource php template specifically designed for portfolio's and exhitions and stuff. It's incredibly easy to set up and update, and I think it has a very pleasing minimal aesthetic.

For hosting I went through godaddy.com

KVW

Why not just use blogger or wordpress for free? Not sure what you'll be hosting, but they have a gig or more of space and you can always just use photobucket or flickr or imageshack to host images if you have a lot of large sized files.

Just buy a $5-10 domain, point it at the free host and make a decent template and save the $50-70 in paid hosting every year.

Lail

Godaddy.com is cheap and reliable.

urahonky

I refuse to use godaddy because their superbowl commercials can seriously die in a fire. :P

Jasconius

I hated 1and1... GoDaddy was alright but...

These days...

http://mediatemple.net/

...is extremely competitively priced for what you get and has a lot of features.

Elimination

Jasconius wrote: »

I hated 1and1... GoDaddy was alright but...

These days...

http://mediatemple.net/

...is extremely competitively priced for what you get and has a lot of features.

I'm with you, i hated 1&1 as well. And when i tried to cancel, they still charged me anyways, even though i called them and they told me it was canceled. I had to call my credit card company and tell them it was an unauthorized charge and to not accept any further attempts from them to charge my card.

Szechuanosaurus

I've liked 1&1 so far, expensive but reliable. But then that's 1and1.co.uk and I think the .com is effectively a completely different entity to all intents and purposes.

SporkAndrew

Szechuanosaurus wrote: »

I've liked 1&1 so far, expensive but reliable. But then that's 1and1.co.uk and I think the .com is effectively a completely different entity to all intents and purposes.

Yeah, I've used 1&1.co.uk for a few personal things and we use it for our business hosting here at work. We're regulary getting 99.999% uptime over the year and we've got a very generous amount of webspace / bandwidth for what we actually pay.