Website, hosting question

[F3Z]

Ok guys for all the tecnoheads out there. i have built me a website which its going pretty well atm but im in dire need of a host. I used to host it from my self but sinse i got the blaster worm 4 times in 1 day i decided to stop and get a decent firewall preventing me to anyways.

Now ive been looking around for a cheap host but they either 1 dont accept solo as a payement method (im 17 so aint got a credit card) or b are free but have banners and montly transfer nlimits of about 250 - 500 meg which is barely enough to host a website with 2 pics if it gets off the ground.

Any help or decent server referals would be apprietiated!!

 

[ChrisWhiteSTEL]

250-500Mb???

Thats like 2500K-5000Kb which is more than enough to get any site off the ground. I have survived on 30Mb before on a full flowing megasite.

.Html files are just code and are little anyway, its just graphics that take up the room. Even so, largest i have seen common high res photos is 850-900kb which is crap to download for 56k'ers out there.

What you need is an FTP server where you can use Leech FTP to manage your online directories and web pages.

Good hosts are hard to find at personel level, as most good ones are at business level and cost.

Tough call, but keep looking and try to plan what you need and costings/budgets.

Hope this helps in some way, will keep an eye out for a host.

 

[Skyhawk]

Hey i don't like to point out falts in things but what has this got to do with paintball?

 

[nickp]

maybe its a PB related site he is hosting???

Try BTI hosting through philip on the forums...

 

[F3Z]

Hmm if you hactually read th epost you would no its a paintball website!! Oh and chris thanks for the help and i hav ealso survived with a personal website using under 100meg but i am hoping to get a good response on the site and maybe include vids etc (yeh i know ill need the extra hosting space anyways. But the main reason i didnt go with any hosts so far was the adverstisement. I mena i know i will have some companies advertising but i want purely paintball co's and we all hate pop up's so i dont want any of those either (if it can be helped.

How can i contact BTI hosting and do you know anything about there price plans??????

 

[nickp]

here he is on the forum

http://www.p8ntballer-forums.com/vb/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid=2055

Pm him he is usually about in the tech room.

Sorry don't know price plans as he sponsored our team last year...

 

[Eddy - The Troggs]

Hi,

If you email me what you want like amount of MB etc then i will give you a price.

I am also negotable.

I accept Solo and can start from £1 a month.

Ed

 

[Chopper Mozart]

Hi F3Z (or can I call you F3? )

It seems to me that you have two different problems here:

1) Blaster and similar email-borne malware,
2) Bandwidth

1 - Whether you host your own web site or get someone else to do it, your 'public' contact email address will still be subject to the same kind of hassle.

2 - Bandwidth - a lot depends on your internet connection. If you have a 500k ish broadband connection (i.e. 256k upload), then I guess you should be able to support a reasonable amount of traffic, and possibly enough to get your site to the stage where it could be self supporting finance wise. It's not difficult to keep the file size of graphics down which will help the bandwidth issue. I'd also look VERY carefully at your web server if it's your own machine (i.e. not web space you have been allocated as part of your web access package) for server security.

Hope you get sorted with some economical web space!

hth,

 

[F3Z]

Yeh mozart i have a 1meg b;ueyonder cable connection. Sufficient to get a working server up with unlimited monthly usage although users will be constrained but my connection speeds but hey tough luck.

2. blaster worm wasnt an e-mail issue as i received without ever opening an e-mail on my system. I had recently purchased a new hdd started up, connected to the net (i mite add firewall - less) and got the dreaded lil grey box. Now if i ever turn it off it comes back even after numourus virus scans, blaster removers and even rmoving from the startup function. So if you could help me with that issue it would solve my hosting issue as i could take off the windows firewall long enough to get my norton firewall up with out the conflict between the two!! lol.

 

[QuackingPlums]

1. Most cable connections, regardless of how fast the advertised download speed is, will still only give you about 256kbit upload.

2. How many PCs do you have on your network? If you have more than one then you need to disinfect ALL of them, otherwise they'll cross-contaminate each other.

If you have a firewall and TCP ports 135 and 4444 blocked, and UDP port 69 blocked, the Blaster cannot replicate. Blaster doesn't have mass email functionality, so it won't be coming in via email. It's an exploit on the RPC function.

It also does not infect the boot sector, which I *think* your little grey box is telling you. It copies itself to the System32 folder.

Running the standard MS-issue Win2k/WinXP patch will stop further infection, and any number of blaster removers will remove any remnants of it from your system.

If little grey boxes still popup, then it's not blaster, it's something else. Try http://housecall.trendmicro.com/housecall/start_corp.asp for a free virus scan.