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Semi-OT: Need info on domain name purchasing
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lugnet.general
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Mon, 23 Sep 2002 15:43:12 GMT
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Hey all,
Since the update to my website and my posts to .castle and .space, I got an
e-mail from my ISP, Earthlink, telling me that I've used 75% of my alloted
bandwith. If I exceed it they'll shut my site down for the rest of the
month:
Dear EarthLink Member,
Your free member Web site http://home.earthlink.net/~xenobuzz has been
popular this month -- maybe a little too popular. According to our records,
your Web site has exceeded 75% of your traffic allotment this month.
If your free Web site traffic exceeds 1024 MB, the site will become
unavailable until the beginning of the next month. During that time, no one
will be able to access your site and you will have only limited abilities to
publish to or modify the site's contents.
WHY?
We have determined that 1024 MB of traffic is more than enough for the vast
majority of personal Web sites. Typically, traffic beyond that is only
generated on commercial sites. And this policy ensures that we share our
bandwidth evenly among all our members. Overtaxing resources could
compromise other members' access to the Internet.
Okaaaay. I'm sure this comes as no surprise to some of you, but I thought
this message was really weird and kinda scary. "He's becoming too popular,
he must be silenced."
I was wondering if anyone knows of any websites that offer info on how to
purchase a domain name?
Dave
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Message has 5 Replies:
 | | Re: Semi-OT: Need info on domain name purchasing
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| I'll recommend Dotster for domain registration, and pair.com for hosting. I've been running Brickfrenzy.com on pair.com for over a year now, and even when I posted the Nebuchadnezzar and received ten times my usual bandwidth, I had no problems. Pair (...) (22 years ago, 23-Sep-02, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Semi-OT: Need info on domain name purchasing
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| (...) I use and would recommend Northstar Computer ((URL) host Bricklink, charges $15 for domains, and the owner is a fellow AFOLer. Seems to me to be a good idea if, when possible, to patronize such businesses. -John (22 years ago, 23-Sep-02, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Semi-OT: Need info on domain name purchasing
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| Hey David, To register a domain you do not need anything special. When I first registered my site I did it at register.com and paid like $35 for it. But that was WAY too much. Go over to (URL) and get one there. It does the exact same thing those (...) (22 years ago, 23-Sep-02, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Semi-OT: Need info on domain name purchasing
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| I have 3 domains in order to handle the traffic of my car sites (and I'm still near maxing my 10Gig/mo with my Earthlink, time to shift some files to the other domains that can handle 6Gig/mo), and I've found that Network Solutions is the absolute (...) (22 years ago, 24-Sep-02, to lugnet.general)
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