I’m currently signed up with Affinity web hosting, and spend an outrageous amount of time on the phone dealing with their inept tech support. The only thing worse is dealing with their billing department. They’re a complete joke and I’m fed up with their incompetence. I’m looking for a web hosting company with reasonable prices and EXCELLENT support.

I’ve had a little experience with Hostway, and was impressed with the response time from their tech support staff. I’m looking for recommendations for a web hosting company, or feedback on Hostway. The thought that IMMEDIATELY comes to mind is why you have been having so many problems that you need technical support so often and again to a lesser extent billing… Actually I’ve never heard of either of them…

I would have to say that Affordablehost.com is the ultimate hosting company in terms of price and support. HostMySite.com has been nothing less than excellent. I went through three other hosts before finally finding and settling on HostMySite.com. They have 24/7/365 telephone tech support that really is 24/7/365. They’re always very helpful, available and, most importantly, effective!

As a budding site designer – with only a few semi-professional projects in my bag – I’d like to know what you professional guys (and gals) use to promote your own and your client sites. One area in particular is search engine submission software. There’s lots of promotion tools out there – from free stuff to apps. costing £200+, but are they any good and is it worth me throwing some of my meager salary at one of them?

Do any of you do it all by hand – manual submission of sites I mean – and wretch at the thought of these programs which can never get it 100% right. It really depends what field the web site is in. My own web site gets most hits from specialist Web Hosting directories which are actually very easy to get into. One site I manage gets most hits from Yahoo, so for them paying for a speedier review might have made sense. Selfpromotion.com has a link to a goto.com tool that lets you see what search terms people are looking for in your field. Well worth a look. Have look at webpositiongoldpro.

It is an excellent time saver and has loads of bells and whistles such as a submitter, page results reporter etc and comes with some excellent tips and tutorials. This link is an associate one. I use it a lot and I’m very happy with how it works and the time it saves. Plus, you can recoup your money may times over by legitimately charging clients for regular submissions and let the program scheduler do a lot of the work.

My company sells hosting, the best way to describe our set-up is a reseller package. We sell the well space under our name and provide the sales and technical support. There fore when we sell a hosting package we register the domain and transfer it onto the nameservers of the company that is selling the reseller package. In order to make our operation more profitable we are going to by a raq3 server, so we can do all the admin our selves and cut out the middle man. The raq3 server will have its own name servers.

So my question is how do we get the domains from the reseller package transferred across. Will the company that sells the reseller package be able to do this or will we have to go back to the company that originally registered the domains? I’d think a company that is in this business would have the experience, or be able to hire the experience, to answer what are really basic questions you’re asking. If you are the Admin or Technical contact for the domain, you can submit the domain changes to your new server. You’ll need to set up the DNS on the RAQ3 (RAQ4s are available, which while easy from the GUI is only easy if you already know what you’re doing.

As you transfer the domains, make sure they point to your RAQ3 and that the files for the web sites are in place as the change is made. It can take a while for the change to propagate through all the DNS systems your client may face so make sure the files are available at both sites for a while. If you are not the Admin nor Technical contact, you’ll need the cooperation of your current reseller/ISP/hosting company. At any rate, I’d suggest getting outside help to walk you through this the first time. It’s not difficult, but it can be confusing if you’ve never seen it before.

I am creating a web site that will prompt users to login. Since it will only be about 20-30 users of that site, we don’t need a database to store all the users information. However, when I am trying to create a form and a server behavior to login in the user, it prompts me to connect to a database. Is there any way to get around developing a database behind a simple login? Or do I have to create a database? If you want to have just one userid and password for all users, you can use htaccess/htpasswd if you’re on an Apache server, and you can restrict directories if you’re on IIS.

If you have a control panel, said control panel may allow you to restrict directories. If I Recall Correctly, using htaccess/htpasswd you can also keep a list of a number of users, though I’ve never tried it. (It’s a plain text file.) If you’re adept with programming, you can install the database-driven login behaviors by linking to a dummy database, and then just delete the database links and hardcode users in. Why noit use Dreamweaver MX or latest? Many tutorials avaible here and many people use it knows it and can help you… I don’t know MS SQL, but i assume you know how to create database with SQL… For DW Ultradev, i assume that it has the same features as DW MX…

You need to define/set up your site definition first when using DW Ultradev, once finished, under Database tab on Application panel, click (+) to create your database connection. Give a connection name, provide username and password, click on “Select” to pick the database that you has, click “Test” and “OK”.. If you own your own server, better install any sql server on it for database support. If you’re using a web hosting, find out whether the company provide any database support. Most company do offer this solution.