Mark A Mandel <mam at theworld.com> writes: > I'm fed up with my ISP, theworld.com, and I'm ready to get my own > cracksandshards.com domain, as many people have suggested. I am open to > suggestions for good brokers or whatever the word is for the companies > you can go to for this, and also warnings for who to stay away from. Hosting and domain registry are separate activities; although many hosting companies will also register domains for you. I've had good luck (I use them for unclehugos.com and firearmsinstructors.biz) with dreamhost.com. Their basic $10/month package probably covers everything you need. And they'll throw in one domain registration for free. The $10/month account covers up to 20GB per month of pages served by the web sight. The best thing I can say about Dreamhost is that the times I've had to email tech support, I have *always* gotten a response within the promised time (usually in less than 1/2 the promised time), and it has *always* either solved the problem, or asked for additional information that turned out to be relevant to solving the problem. No bad stories; most of the stuff I host I'm hosting myself on the DSL line. Which is moving towards being over-committed these days. -- David Dyer-Bennet, <dd-b at dd-b.net>, <www.dd-b.net/dd-b/> RKBA: <noguns-nomoney.com> <www.dd-b.net/carry/> Photos: <dd-b.lighthunters.net> Snapshots: <www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/> Dragaera mailing lists: <dragaera.info/>