Domain name help

[tinker]

about 30 minutes west of cleveland.

why?

[SgtM]

Near Sandusky? I'm in Niles (near Youngstown) and I work in Akron.

[Airbozo]

BTW, http://www.bluehost.com/ is the host I use and they are quite reliable AND keep improving their services with no extra charge. They will even register your domain name for free as long as you use them as a hosting provider.

(I know I stepped into this late...)

[tinker]

Thanks AirBozo. I will look into them. I stilll haven't bought the space so you came just in time.
A few questions...
What did you use to design/manage your website and do you know if you can use whatever you want or do you have to use the programs they give you?
Also I was just looking around the e-mail and it looked like you had to use @blewhost.com on the end of your website name. Is this true or can you use your sites name at the end?
Thanks.

@SgtM: I live in Avon. Its about halfway between Cleveland and Sandusky.

[calumc]

Well screw you all with your fancy servers, I've got a free host
I'm on 110mb.com 5GB space, dunno about the BW and Ive never seen my site down in the 6 months its been up

[tinker]

man.
Another option.
That would be really nice because its free but I don't know how much bandwidth I would use. I would think 300gb would be enough but I'm not sure.
Also does it support e-mail?

[.Maleficus.]

What did you use to design/manage your website and do you know if you can use whatever you want or do you have to use the programs they give you?

That is what a CMS is used for (content management system). You can use any number of them (Joomla, Mambo, Drupal...). They are for quickly adding content and features to the site. They are server-side, so you enter the URL of the administrator directory, and do changes from within your browser.

[tinker]

Oh ok.

I have yet to buy the space.
I 'm still trying to compare different services.
The one AirBozo mentioned seems good because you don't have to pay a start-up fee. With the siteground.com one you do unless you pay for a whole year and I don't want to do that as I may host on my own server.
It costs about the same and I can't remember all the exact features but they are comparable.

[SgtM]

Want to try everything out on a temp basis? (for free) PM me.

[tinker]

Thanks for the offer but I think I'm just going to go ahead with it all because I would like to get my site up and running asap