Advice needed - hosting a single page website
I’m working on a single page website for a friend of mine. We’re on a budget. It’s nothing fancy. It literally will be just one HTML page. No database, no fancy scripting, no blog engine needed, nothing.
Just a place to host a page that can be changed at will.
And someplace that will accept the domain name we have for the site. We already have the domain name purchased, so that’s not a problem.
I have to think that there’s a cheaper solution that GoDaddy. ($10 a month for a low-traffic local-interest-only seems too much for me.) There has to be some discount place out there for such sites, right? Any pointers?
Update: As one commenter suggested, I found the economy web hosting on GoDaddy.com. So I was able to get a domain name for two years and hosting for one for only $51. Well within the budget. And I used the “iFanboy” coupon code to save 10%!
December 16th, 2007 at 5:42 pm
I’m not sure which hosting plan you checked out on Godaddy for $10/month. I just signed my brother up for an entire year for $43 on Godaddy. Check out the economy plans.
December 16th, 2007 at 9:22 pm
Thanks, I’ll have to look into that. GoDaddy gives you so many blasted options when you order some little thing that I go blind to portions of the page. I’ll have to look more carefully. $43 for the year isn’t bad.
December 17th, 2007 at 11:58 am
Thanks for this post Augie. My brother-in-law is a plumber and he wants to set something simple up, so this gives me some ideas as well!
December 18th, 2007 at 2:46 am
If your friend has an internet account, he likely already has 10 MB (or thereabouts) of web space provided by his ISP. For example, I’m on Verizon, which gives me a little webspace at mysite.verizon.net/mikesterjr. I’ve registered the domain name “mikesterling.com” through Godaddy, and set up that domain to simply forward to my Verizon webspace, where there’s just a single page that says “nothing here, go to my comics blog”. If your friend has ISP webspace, I think that solution would be ideal for your project.
December 18th, 2007 at 3:21 pm
Nothing but good to say about Cornerhost.com - and about $5 a month.