I'm involved with Basset rescue. Here's why. I'm looking at putting together a simple web app that would allow people in the community to enter fundraising information. That's easy enough to do. How do I host it, though? I have a Domino server at home, and a broadband connection - is it possible to host it myself? What do I need to do to make my server accessible to the world? And do I want to?
If not, can anyone recommend a very low-cost hosting company? I don't need dedicated hosting; I just want to be able to attach a domain name to the site and be able to maintain the database. I've done the obligatory Google search and come up with a lot of companies, but would like to hear good things about a company from someone who's worked with them, since this is a non-commercial endeavor and I don't really have any kind of budget.
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Thanks, Jess. You've pretty much confirmed my suspicion that I don't know enough about admin stuff to want to run my own server...
dominodeveloper.net and prominic are the two that I'm looking closely at. I'll take a look at connectria, as well.
Prominic is who hosts my blog and I have been very happy with them, paying about US$10 a month for a partioned server hosting agreement. You might want to ask them or Chris Miller at Connectria if they would do it as a freebie.
Thanks, Christopher. I sent an email to Prominic's sales address to see if they'd be willing to host it for free since it's in support of a group of charities. Even if they aren't, I'll probably go with them - $10/month is about as cheap as I think I'm going to find, and it's not going to be high-enough traffic to require one of the production packages. I just wanted to get input from someone other than Jake as to whether Prominic is reliable. Sounds like they are.
Prominic has been great for me. Been with them for 3+ years now. The $10/month is pretty comfortable. I dropped the email I'd had through them (which had been another $8/mo), since I use GMail for all my non-work email now. And since I now have Google handling the search on the site, dropping the full-text index of the db brought the MB usage well within the allowed range. I've also found the support to be great - although I've only contacted them a couple of times over the years.
Thanks, Joe. I don't need any of the email stuff, and we're definitely going to be below the MB usage range. Looks like I'm going with Prominic!
Hey Esther!
Skype me @ 'chrstoohey' and we'll talk!
-Chris
Hi Esther !!!!
I've just discovered a way to host my own Notes Server. A colleague of mine told me about this website: http://www.no-ip.com/getting_started.php
I registered my own domain and I am using the service now. It's great.
Give it a try.
David "Ice Cold" Bier
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