With Mobile.me going away soon, where will I be able to upload my iWeb pages. iCloud?

Question

Where will iWeb upload to after Mobile.Me goes away?  As a high school English teacher, I have developed thousand(s) of highly interactive pages of tutorials, tests, keys, lesson plans, etc., that my advanced and learning challenged students have come to rely on.  The last thing I want to do is develop these pages even more without first knowing what will become of my work:  thousands of hours of work.  Uploading to a non-Apple FTP is an option, but then the webpages lose password protection, blogging capabilities etc.  I need an Apple solution...which is what I have always relied on for over 25 years. Using Google.docs would be like retuning to the Stone Age.  Any viable solutions?  I have talked with the Apple Help center folks, but they have no answers to date.  Thanks.

Answer 1

I don't think so.  Steve replied to an email saying that we would have to look elsewhere for hosting our sites. 
You can use a 3rd party server and retain password protection on a site or page by page basis. 
For what it's worth I signed up with HostExcellence several days ago with their Ultimate Business plan at $8/mo.  That's a wee bit less than MMe was but with that I get 3 free domain names , unlimited space and bandwidth, email addresses, subdomains and 24/7 ear-to-ear excellent customer support.
Within a few hours I had my Demo and tutorial sites moved and up and running.  Pretty simple actually. I used Transmit to open my new server and my iDisk so I could drag and drop from the iDisk onto the HE server. Just like copying from one of my hard drives to another. 
Each of the domain names can have an email address and several alias.  
As far as a hit counter you'll need a 3rd party one.  I use StatCounter and that gives me so much more than just visitor counts. It gives me their location,  what site the visitor came from, what browser used, what system the visitor was running and lots more.  I've written a tutorial on how to install it: #13 - Adding a StatCounter as an HTML Snippet.
For many of my sites I've put them in my primary domain name account, oldtoad.net.  So the URL to my Demo_1 site would be oldtoad.net/Demo_1.  Same for my Toads Cellar website folder. Copied it into the oldtoad.net directory and the URL for the cellar became oldtoad.net/ToadsCellar, short and sweet. 
I had been contemplating this move for quite a while now and the latest round of events and help from longtime HE user and friend, Roddy McKay, got me off my duff and started. Now I wish I had made the move earlier.
Publishing to HE is no different that to MMe.  You can either publish directly with iWeb or to a folder on your hard drive and then use a 3rd party FTP client from there.   Since I optimize my sites with Website Maestro I publish to a folder and let WSM optimize and upload to the server.
Since we have a year before MMe is history one can take time to move to the new server and get things straightened away before going live with the new sites.
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