Network Solutions alternate

Check into Wendell's website stuff.

He is the man

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No need to look any further than to our host!

SHG

Say no more. I feel like such a fool.

Will do assp (tomorrow).

I love this bar.

And, if Wendell is too busy, let me know. I have a friend I've been doing tons of website for for years. He knows about this as well as GoDaddy and other providers.

I gave up on them a year or two ago. They caused me a myriad of problems, and were rather expensive. I now use the domain registration feature of my mail and web hosting company, free with hosting. No downtime that I have ever noticed. Webmasters.com

a fun read here:
Only an idiot would use Network Solutions e-mail. I am an idiot.

in my own defense, i believe NS was the one and only registrar when I first obtained my own domain about 15 or 20 years ago and just kept feeding them.

BTW: don't burn any bridges at NS until you have been fully switched and are stable... you need to deal with them on friendly terms until they do all the magic on their end, and they can make it really tough on you... (ask me why I know that)

more fun reading: I Hate Network Solutions!

I used GoDaddy BEFORE Wendell, he is now hosting my site and my domain is registered through NameCheap.com.

SHG

Golly gee willickers, you guys are far too nice.

I do indeed use NameCheap.com for my domains and the domains of my clients, and I'm extremely happy with them.

I moved 168 domains away from GoDaddy (to NameCheap) because: 1.) They were spamming the crap out of me; 2.) The domain manager was clunky and painful to use; 3.) They're hosting isn't very friendly with many highly-regarded website building programs; 4.) The owner was killing elephants for sport; and 5.) They supported the SOPA/PIPA bill.

Way back at the dawn of the internet as a public utility, the internic was essentially 'network solutions' company with a monopoly on domain naming. Those days are now a distant memory being 10-15 years ago.

Now there are literally 1000's of web hosting providers. They usually will handle your domain naming for free, have fairly large amounts of storage and huge email features with the accounts. There are many that cost less than $100 a year for basic to fairly full featured.

Getting your domain name management away from NS can be a challenge. Some webhosters will handle that for you, but you may have to formally kick NS loose for handling your domain names.

It's been a while since I have dealt with it and still have NS as domain name registrar on a few sites paying 9 or 10 year rates which aren't bad, but I never have and never would have them host my site.

There are a number of sites that rate webhosting services. I started out with readyhosting and now have a few accounts with bluehost and have managed one on GoDaddy, which is definitely more complex than it needs to be perhaps there is some reason.

The advantage even for the average guy is that in those old days if you had to change your internet provider such as comcast or netcom or verizon, etc. your email and web sites no longer need to be dependent on them at all.

http://www.hosting-review.com/?gclid=CMrxlp3UlrQCFcyf4AodUw0AaA

http://web-hosting-review.toptenreviews.com/

are examples of review sites. You may want to carefully evaluate features. Do you need windows hosting for some reason, or is the usual linux hosting fine. For most people it is. Add on capabilities like setting up internet sales outlets or running a blog may be included in the package or may be extra by feature.

- jlw

> My "domain name(?)" provider Network Solutions has been letting me down lately.
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> I have had trouble sending and receiving emails to and from clients.
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> NS has no system to let me know exactly how much money I owe for emails and website "hosting".
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> I am a complete novice, but since I am CEO CIO CFO COO C... Thiis falls on my shoulders.
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> Should I switch away from NS?
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> To what, Go Daddy does not seem professional enough.
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> I do worry a little about the transition. I don't want to miss that $100,000 survey project email, ya know?
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> What should I do?

I have heard good things about Hover.com. I plan to switch away from godaddy as soon as I can.

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> There are a number of sites that rate webhosting services. I started out with readyhosting and now have a few accounts with bluehost and have managed one on GoDaddy, which is definitely more complex than it needs to be perhaps there is some reason.
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Yeah. It's called "security through obfuscation". God help you to get a SQL database migrated to it from your local development platform. We finally got someone on the phone and even they didn't really seem to know what they were doing. We finally figured it out on our own and have not dealt with them since.