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Which hosting companies are best, and what makes them good?
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Which hosting companies are best, and what makes them good?
I've been through a few different hosts in as many years --
reasons for leaving them include excessive downtime and poor
customer support. All of the hosts that I quit using had an uptime
guarantee, but their servers would routinely bog down during peak
traffic hours.
I'm currently using GoDaddy; I've been with them for about a
year now. I haven't noticed any downtime on their servers, their
rates and features/plans are very competitive, and customer service
is excellent. With other services I'd typically wait for upwards of
a half hour to get someone on the phone, but I get through to
support at GoDaddy almost immediately. I'd recommend them to anyone
looking for personal or small business use -- the only caveat is
that their lowest price plans only give you 10mb for your email
accounts, so you either have to do a little routine maintenance or
upgrade your email plan.

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I just changed web hosting companies and want to know if I change the "incoming" and "outgoing" server to the new server addresses will I lose the emails that I have for this account? Said another way, I'm going to open mail preferences, select the mail account I need to change and type in new mail server addresses?
Sorry if this has been answered before but I couldn't find an answer in a search.

Hi there, and welcome to the Discussions.
Changing the outgoing (SMTP) server should not make you loose emails, since the SMTP server is, by definition, only used to send emails. The emails you have already sent and want to keep are stored in a folder that is completely independent from your choice of SMTP server.
When it comes to changing the incoming server, that's a different business. The consequences of such a change depend on the type of the server. Is it POP? IMAP?... If it is POP, I would assume that you would not loose anything, because POP works in such a way that you download all your emails from the POP server, the emails are then deleted from the server (at least, this is the default setting), and then the reference copies of your emails are the ones on your computer, which should therefore not be touched by a change in the POP server.
If the incoming server is an IMAP server, then I don't know what will happen, but there is a risk that you could loose your emails. This is because, with IMAP, the reference copies of your emails are the ones on the server, with which your computer automatically synchronizes.
In any case, before doing anything, BACKUP YOUR EMAILS, and make sure your know how to restore these backups in case something goes wrong.
Then, I suggest you wait for someone more knowledgeable than myself to better answer your question.
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Hi Gang-
I recently moved my primary website from one host to another. I diligently moved all my IMAP email boxes to the "On My Mac" section in Apple Mail before changing my nameservers. After the nameserver change I moved the mail boxes back to the IMAP of the new host within Apple Mail. All was good in the world until I realized I failed to move the "Sent" folder so I left behind about 1000 outgoing sent emails. I would love to have those emails back in Apple Mail so they can be searchable.
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At this moment I am looking for a web hosting companies.
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regardas

No Problem at all
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I was delighted when I first read in Macworld about the new iWeb '08, as I had hoped very much, being a fledgling small business owner, and having very little computer web-coding knowledge, to be able to easily put up a great website with my own domain. I thought, "wow, I can now use these for my own domain name, publishing easily via .mac.!"
Well, as I pursued my research on this, I found also through Macworld (here is the link)
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If I were you I would go check out reviews on webhostingtalk.com . Very reliable forum for reviews and sometimes hosts like those post specials over there so you don't start off paying full price.

Free Web Hosting withdrawn

Does anyone else think this is ridiculous?
Apparently not many people were using it.
Well, I have always used it and only found out that it had stopped when I tried to http to it.
The alternative they suggest is to buy business webspace.
As it happens I have business broadband. Not cheap anyway. And I have to pay extra to retain the email addresses that I used when I had home broadband.
But everyone knows where my home boardband werbsite is. And I've used it as a reference in Wikipedia.
Also I managed to get a good name!
How much would this cost to maintain for the allegedly few users?. Anyone who knows anything about web hosting knows that it isn't necessary of course to maintain a seperate web server

Ectophile wrote:
jasee wrote:
Maybe a petition to the government might work if enough people care to sign it
Given that the free web space hasn't been advertised by BT to its customers for many years now, I don't suppose there were that many people still using it. So your odds of a petition acieving anything are pretty mich nil.
BT decided that it wasn't making them any money keeping the service, and they couldn't be bothered to maintain the server any more.
BT are a big multinational company. They really don't care what you think. And they don't take much notice of anything said on this forum.
Yes, that sounds like the attitudes of a big company
Well it would be interesting to know how many customer sites they have closed.
If they did (for some strange reason) host the personal web pages on a single machine alone (unlikely) then of course it could easily be hosted elsewhere, as they do still provide web services.

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I use Little Oak for my site, and I can genuinely recommended. They are great. And in regards to pricing, it is relative. You can find really budget and cheap hosting, you can even find free hosting. But you usually get what you pay for. I would stay away from free hosting if you want decent service. I really like and value the service I get from LO. And that 25% coupon looks like a good reason to try them. I've called or IM with them at all hours of the day, and always get great service.
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I'm sure whoever you go with, they will be able to help you move your site over. Here is a help sheet from Apple to get you started: (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4686).

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How much you looking to pay??? and how technical are you?
I used to have a private server for 135 a month, installed whatever and did whatever I wanted on it, it was pretty liberating...Just remote into it, and admin'd the thing.
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