IWeb Publish Success - Finally

I have blasted my anger at Apple all over these boards and elsewhere over the debacle that iWeb has been everytime it is updated, and the continuing quality problems with the software. Upload has been a less than "it just works" experience, as indicated by the literally thousands of messages on this board with frustrated users.
This weekend, I fought with this application for hours, attempting on multiple occasions to get a site to upload. Publish All was immediately returning quota errors. I deleted ALL plists in the Domain file, and attempted the upload. No luck. I then resorted to deleting nearly 900 MBytes of content from my iDisk, and doing the upload. The upload ran ALL night, and failed with a network error. I tried again. Same problem. Most everything was uploaded, but something at the end choked the software, resulting in the error.
I then culled about 200 MBytes of stuff off my website - a couple of large client videos, and attempted to republish just the changes. This process ran for nearly six hours, and my data transfer speed to .mac never got above 52K per second. It was grueling, but finally is succeeded. The long transfer time was unbelievable, as the changes involved deleting about 200 MBytes of content, and uploading an additional 20 MBytes or so. The transfer process slowed to a crawl, before finally completing.
I have done several update publishes over the past 24 hours, and have gotten success.
While I am very happy to finally be getting content to publish, I am very uneasy about the stability of the iWeb/.mac combination. I am concerned about the publishing problems which arise everytime an update comes down, and don't have a good feeling about having to delete my entire collection of sites and reupload to fix a combination of software and .mac communication problems.

I am looking for alternatives for iWeb and .mac. The thing is, though, that giving Apple a pass on this because of the low price tag on iWeb is a cop out. .Mac is NOT cheap. Apple's hardware is competitive price-wise, and the software perks of the OS X experience, coupled with the iLife experience are great, but we still pay a premium. I buy Macs and stick with Macs specifically for this level of integration and convenience. Inexpensive should not translate to "works sometimes." This is not what Apple is selling in their ads.
On paper, .mac, iWeb, and other iLife applications are ideal for my workflow. I have the need simply to be able to post video project "proofs" for client review, as well as photo proofs. This is not really heavy lifting so far as web development and hosting is concerned. The pages themselves need not be complex. I just want the ease of being able to click a button and publish, have the client make comments, go back to Final Cut, make a few changes, click and publish again. The main effort of my tasks shouldn't be the web aspect... that is just a tool. My effort should be in the video production and multimedia production aspect. iWeb on paper is ideally suited for this sort of thing - Large video files does not translate into heavy sites - the html is the same regardless. And the fact that Apple gives us up to several gigs of online storage for our subscription with varying levels of bandwidth usage, should not preclude posting large video files.
The inexpensive price tag of iWeb is probably a loss-leader for Apple. This drives subscription sales of .mac, and indeed, drives sales of Macs themselves. This is no excuse for this software NOT working as advertised.

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