Hosting service to replace Comcast

[TDeacon]

Sorry if this is not entirely on topic, but I just found out today that Comcast just eliminated the online storage associated with my Comcast account.  That means that 15-plus years of images, including many on these forums, are toast, since old posts and associated URLs are typically hard coded. 

Any suggestions as to a reliable replacement?  The problem is that anything can go away ...  I wonder how difficult it would be to host it myself, on an old computer. 

Mark H. 

[Bino]

You might want to look into web hosting services.

For example, I have a "web site" via 1&1 that I mostly use as a web-accessible file storage. The "PC specs" link in my signature here on this BBS points to a tiny HTML page I put on that site. I also have all sorts of image and text files on it that I may need to reach from the i-net.

[TDeacon]

Still researching this, but would getting my own domain name be a way to guarantee longevity for my forum images?  So if my web hosting company went out of business, so long as I used the same domain name with a replacement web hosting company, my forum image URLs containing it would be valid forever?

MH

[Bizman]

I am in the belief that having a domain name of your own should allow you to move the location of the files whenever needed. The DNS servers of the web hosting company should take care of directing links to the correct location.

[Kanth]

If you wanted to host it yourself you'd need to do a little setup and then get a dynamic dns account, shouldn't be too terrible.

I have my own domain through powweb.com I'd highly recommend them.

[Bino]

If you decide to let them manage the physical hosting (as I do), to make it more user-friendly as a file and picture storage area, be sure to get one that includes an FTP account. That way, on your local desktop you can use any old FTP client software (I use FileZilla) to put/get/manage your web files.

[LCAMerciful]

I use ipage.com

It's just a few bucks a month and I have my own domain name and control my own email accounts and image hosting.

[diaster]

Still researching this, but would getting my own domain name be a way to guarantee longevity for my forum images?  So if my web hosting company went out of business, so long as I used the same domain name with a replacement web hosting company, my forum image URLs containing it would be valid forever?

MH

In your dnr manager you set the name servers to whatever they are. Example my name servers are 831$&@&$.com all my clients set there name servers to ns01.831)$&@.com and ns2.831)$$@.com if a client changes hosts. He simply uploads the file from here to his computer to the new hosting server and changes the name server tags in his dnr account

[Zeagle]

For stuff like forum photos and the like, you can just host your own. Apache works great for that. Check to see what your upload speed is. I imagine if you can fly AH alright then you can host your own forum stuff pretty well. A dns service that allows you to do dynamic dns would be fine.

There are lots of hosting providers. They all work more or less the same. If I ever do a commercial web site though I will definitely be hosting it on my own servers like I have in the past. Connection speeds and $ go hand in hand.

Contrary to the public perception, what ever you put out there on "the cloud"(somebody else's machines), is available to whomever has access to the server. Proprietary stuff should be hosted in-house.