Web Hosting + email

[thewisecrab]

Hi guyz
my friend wants to set a web site for his business
paid hosting will do, according to him
but he also wants POP3, IMAP for his site
eg. if his site name is xyz.com
then an email to him will be " email@xyz.com "
So can you'll suggest a good web hosting service that provides these features?

 

[iMav]

*www.expertrio.com/

 

[thewisecrab]

^^
Thanx For the Link

cud you also help out in designing/hosting/maintening of website? (read: Noobish)
A guide (any link on forum,web) would be really helpful....

P.S. he claims he has designed a site on MS Office Publisher
Can he host that?
Will the site be fully functional?
Also
what about the email???

 

[iMav]

^^ He can re-direct the domain to point at the one built using MS Office Publisher.

For email ids, the one I have mentioned offers cPanel where in one can setup those POP accounts for whatever@domain.com

Another option is to use either Google Apps or Live Services. They allow you to create whatever@domain.com mails.

Designing is well not my area of expertise, though there are many on this forum who might be willing to help in.

Hosting - the link I gave you, the guys there will help you.

 

[Sukhdeep Singh]

Hi guyz
but he also wants POP3, IMAP for his site

Almost 99.99% hosts will be able to offer these features

^^
P.S. he claims he has designed a site on MS Office Publisher

I am not aware of MS Office Publisher. What kind of requirements does it have ? Any Ideas ?

 

[thewisecrab]

^^
OK that's That
now which plan can be suitable for him?
i mean the email service will take occupy some space
and he handles a lot of email (with attachments) everyday

P.S What is storage,bandwith? (in connection to web hosting)

 

[victor_rambo]

If he has himself designed a site with MS Office publisher, I doubt how professional or clean it will look. Though these tools can create good webpages, you need to have good graphic or aesthetic skills so that your webpage looks good. Even I was 'very' happy when I built my firt webpage using MS Frontpage, but then when I saw other sites on the net, I thought what rubbish my page was. So ask him to get his design reviewed since he will be using it for business!

(I assumed your friend has no wed designing skills)

 

[Sukhdeep Singh]

^^
i mean the email service will take occupy some space
and he handles a lot of email (with attachments) everyday

P.S What is storage,bandwith? (in connection to web hosting)

Only the user can decide how much space and bandwidth he needs.

Spcae
Disk Space is the amount of space provided to you to be shared between your hosting files and email accounts.

Bandwidth
Every time one of your web pages is viewed by someone on the internet, the size of that page goes towards your bandwidth usage. (Below is an example of how many times a page would have to be viewed to reach 10GB of transfer.)

• Page size 30kb = 1,398,101 views
• Page size 40kb = 1,048,576 views
• Page size 50kb = 838,861 views
• Page size 60kb = 699,051 views

If you have heavy email requirement and want full reliability and that too for free.....outsource your email to GMAIL Servers using Google Apps Service

More info here : *www.google.com/a/

 

[thewisecrab]

If he has himself designed a site with MS Office publisher, I doubt how professional or clean it will look. Though these tools can create good webpages, you need to have good graphic or aesthetic skills so that your webpage looks good. Even I was 'very' happy when I built my firt webpage using MS Frontpage, but then when I saw other sites on the net, I thought what rubbish my page was. So ask him to get his design reviewed since he will be using it for business!

(I assumed your friend has no web designing skills)

Yes I Agree
Even So , I would really like to help him out here (i mean in hosting his website)

Only the user can decide how much space and bandwidth he needs............outsource your email to GMAIL Servers using Google Apps Service

More info here : *www.google.com/a/

So Basically He has to decide how much mail he recieves and accordingly choose a plan???

 

[victor_rambo]

If you have heavy email requirement and want full reliability and that too for free.....outsource your email to GMAIL Servers using Google Apps Service

More info here : *www.google.com/a/

+1
Manging your own mail means you have overheads headeaches such as backing up, restoring, etc.

 

[thewisecrab]

^^
Thanx people for all your help i mean really thank you
will inform him about WebHosting
i will keep you'll posted about any queries or doubts

Ok
He wants know The Diff Between Shared Hosting, Reseller Hosting And VPS Hosting
Mainly coz shared hosting is cheaper while others are comparitively costlier

 

[Sukhdeep Singh]

Shared hosting - Hosting for his sites

Reseller Hosting - Buy in Bulk and do whatever you want to with it. Use it for multiple sites, share among friends, start selling web hosting urself

VPS - stands for Virtual Private Server.....well VPS offers same features like Reseller but in this case, you own your very own Webserver. Play with it. Only receommended once you site grows big to be handled by most Shared or Reseller Servers

+1
Manging your own mail means you have overheads headeaches such as backing up, restoring, etc.

EGGJACTLY

Another benefit is that, even if your website is down....your Email is working since Google Servers are hardly face downtime and there are about 7-8 alternates

 

[iMav]

Another benefit is that, even if your website is down....your Email is working since Google Servers are hardly face downtime and there are about 7-8 alternates

True.

 

[preshit.net]

( Thanks for the link, iMav )

I'd suggest the OP to use GApps too, since it offers loads of features, and there's hardly anything you need to do once you are set up.

 

[oval_man]

You can try "Aalphanet.com",an excellent Web Hosting Service at an affordable price!

 

[thewisecrab]

So Once I Purchase a domain name, (mostly between 1 to 5 GB storage), how do i actually host the website designed?

 

[mehulved]

So Once I Purchase a domain name, (mostly between 1 to 5 GB storage), how do i actually host the website designed?

Upload the contents to the website, using ftp, scp, whatever facilities available and you're familiar with.

If you have heavy email requirement and want full reliability and that too for free.....outsource your email to GMAIL Servers using Google Apps Service

More info here : *www.google.com/a/

And then again, they can use their email client and connect via pop3s or imaps, which will be more secure than the web interface IMO.
Also, if there's increasing number of users google apps will be able to handle it better.

 

[Sukhdeep Singh]

And then again, they can use their email client and connect via pop3s or imaps, which will be more secure than the web interface IMO.

Eggjactly....but then again most hosting come with POP3 and IMAP...

But best feature is AWESOME spam protection by GMAIL

In the end we all cna say GOOGLE APPS Rocks

 

[ravi_9793]

So Once I Purchase a domain name, (mostly between 1 to 5 GB storage),

Domain name dont have any storage.

how do i actually host the website designed?

If you are very new, I will suggest you to use any webpage making software like dreamweaver...than upload them using any FTP client.

Your host will prvide all the FTP login details.

You can try "Aalphanet.com",an excellent Web Hosting Service at an affordable price!

Is this cheap:
250 MB/20 Ids @ Rs 4,000/-

@thewisecrab
For E-mail service you can also use Microsoft Live Domain service.
*domains.live.com

I can help you to activate Live domain service instantly..and you dont need any DNS control for this. It can be done using cpanel MX entry....provided your host allow to edit MX entry ...Most host have this feature as default.

 

[mehulved]

Eggjactly....but then again most hosting come with POP3 and IMAP...

But what about multiple users and imaps and pop3s?
I would anyday prefer web interface to imap or pop3 since all my data is transferred over https but imaps/pop3s is better since it eliminates the vulnerabilities of the web interface while still using ssl to keep the connection encrypted. Thus a higher level of security.