Familly reuninon plus permanent family site

[SCraig]

We're doing a family reunion and want to also create a website that will
permanently house the results of the reunion plus other extended family
information. Ancestry.con offers a site for $30 per year. Are there other
better offerings? What do you all recommend.

Thanks,
Craig

[Hugh Watkins]

SCraig wrote:

We're doing a family reunion and want to also create a website that will
permanently house the results of the reunion plus other extended family
information. Ancestry.con offers a site for $30 per year. Are there other
better offerings? What do you all recommend.

Thanks,
Craig

yes freespace and world connect and blogger all free

Freepages: Free Unlimited Web Space
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hugh/


http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/

In the early days of 1994 and 1995, there were very few genealogical
databases online and only a few genealogy related websites. A group of
people joined together to discuss the possibilities and the GenWeb group
was formed. Under the direction of Gary Hoffman a mailing list was begun
and provided the forum by which these early programmers discussed their
ideas. . . . http://wc.rootsweb.com/wchistory.html
In May 1996 Randy Winch started working with the IGM programs. He
enhanced them by adding DBM indexing, pedigree charts, descendancy
charts and gedcom subset download. He converted the programs into the C
programming language to help reduce server load, and later completely
rewrote it in the programming language C++.

RootsWeb announced the launch of the World Connect Project on November
10, 1999 after staff members and users submitted 5.5 million records
during a four-week beta-testing period. The WorldConnect Project
continues to grow, and currently (January 2004) has more than 312
million records

http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=lapham
one-name study wiht blogs as a home page

LAPHAM 1
links to LAPHAM sites around the world
http://lapham36.blogspot.com/

LAPHAM 2
sources and work done in the LAPHAM one-name study
http://lapham2005.blogspot.com/


LAPHAM 3
one-name study blog
http://kilmington.blogspot.com/

used to share photos with links to a tree
http://lapham36.blogspot.com/2006/04/lu ... apham.html

regards

Hugh W

[Ye Old One]

On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 15:58:21 GMT, "SCraig" <[email protected]> enriched
this group when s/he wrote:

We're doing a family reunion and want to also create a website that will
permanently house the results of the reunion plus other extended family
information. Ancestry.con offers a site for $30 per year. Are there other
better offerings? What do you all recommend.

Thanks,
Craig

Does that include domain registration? Bandwidth? How much web space?

Do you have free access to the space for uploading?

Frankly, for $30 you are not going to get a lot these days.

--
Bob.

[SCraig]

Hugh Watkins wrote:

SCraig wrote:
We're doing a family reunion and want to also create a website that
will permanently house the results of the reunion plus other
extended family information. Ancestry.con offers a site for $30 per
year. Are there other better offerings? What do you all recommend.

Thanks,
Craig

yes freespace and world connect and blogger all free

Freepages: Free Unlimited Web Space
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hugh/


http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/

In the early days of 1994 and 1995, there were very few genealogical
databases online and only a few genealogy related websites. A group of
people joined together to discuss the possibilities and the GenWeb
group was formed. Under the direction of Gary Hoffman a mailing list
was begun and provided the forum by which these early programmers
discussed their ideas. . . . http://wc.rootsweb.com/wchistory.html
In May 1996 Randy Winch started working with the IGM programs. He
enhanced them by adding DBM indexing, pedigree charts, descendancy
charts and gedcom subset download. He converted the programs into the
C programming language to help reduce server load, and later
completely rewrote it in the programming language C++.

RootsWeb announced the launch of the World Connect Project on November
10, 1999 after staff members and users submitted 5.5 million records
during a four-week beta-testing period. The WorldConnect Project
continues to grow, and currently (January 2004) has more than 312
million records

http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=lapham
one-name study wiht blogs as a home page

LAPHAM 1
links to LAPHAM sites around the world
http://lapham36.blogspot.com/

LAPHAM 2
sources and work done in the LAPHAM one-name study
http://lapham2005.blogspot.com/


LAPHAM 3
one-name study blog
http://kilmington.blogspot.com/

used to share photos with links to a tree
http://lapham36.blogspot.com/2006/04/lu ... apham.html

regards

Hugh W
__________________________-

I'm looking for a site that and be password protected so that the family can
exchange private information.

[SCraig]

Ye Old One wrote:

On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 15:58:21 GMT, "SCraig" <[email protected]> enriched
this group when s/he wrote:

We're doing a family reunion and want to also create a website that
will permanently house the results of the reunion plus other
extended family information. Ancestry.con offers a site for $30 per
year. Are there other better offerings? What do you all recommend.

Thanks,
Craig

Does that include domain registration? Bandwidth? How much web space?
Do you have free access to the space for uploading?

Frankly, for $30 you are not going to get a lot these days.

___________________________

So what do you recommend?

[john]

SCraig wrote:

Ye Old One wrote:
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 15:58:21 GMT, "SCraig" <[email protected]> enriched
this group when s/he wrote:

We're doing a family reunion and want to also create a website that
will permanently house the results of the reunion plus other
extended family information. Ancestry.con offers a site for $30 per
year. Are there other better offerings? What do you all recommend.

Thanks,
Craig

Does that include domain registration? Bandwidth? How much web space?
Do you have free access to the space for uploading?

Frankly, for $30 you are not going to get a lot these days.

___________________________

So what do you recommend?

What information do you want to put on the web site? When you say
"permanently house" what do you mean? Where in the world are you based.

I would want full control over such a web site with the ability to move
it to another ISP rather of my choosing than being forced to use the
structure from one provider. That would mean using software you choose.

Buy your own domain name and you will be able to move the data to a
different ISP without the other users being inconvenienced/needing to
know about the move. Many ISPs will provide web space where you can
build a web site.

A genealogy program such as phpGedView will allow you to build a family
tree import/export GEDCOM file with password protection that users can
add to (with a system manager controlling the updates).

[Ken]

"SCraig" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...

We're doing a family reunion and want to also create a website that will
permanently house the results of the reunion plus other extended family
information. Ancestry.con offers a site for $30 per year. Are there
other
better offerings? What do you all recommend.

Thanks,
Craig

This is a good free site:

http://www.tribalpages.com/

[John]

On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 15:58:21 GMT, "SCraig" <[email protected]> wrote:

We're doing a family reunion and want to also create a website that will
permanently house the results of the reunion plus other extended family
information. Ancestry.con offers a site for $30 per year. Are there other
better offerings? What do you all recommend.

Thanks,
Craig

Go to http://www.godaddy.com to get a domain name ($8US/year or less)

Go to http://www.qualityhostonline.com to get their cheapest hosting package
($12US/year for 200MB Web space). It includes unlimited email
addresses and forwarding, multiple FTP accounts, etc.

I use http://www.qualityhostonline.com for my personal Web site:
http://www.jecarter.com

[Dave Hinz]

On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 18:34:07 -0400, John <[email protected]> wrote:

Go to http://www.godaddy.com to get a domain name ($8US/year or less)
Go to http://www.qualityhostonline.com to get their cheapest hosting package
($12US/year for 200MB Web space). It includes unlimited email
addresses and forwarding, multiple FTP accounts, etc.

If you need more space, I have a reseller's account at a larger hosting
place. I've been toying with the idea of offering PHPGedView sites as a
service, does this seem like there'd be demand for that sort of thing?

[Hugh Watkins]

rootsweb offers free space
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/

Freepages: Free Unlimited Web Space
my own
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/%7Ehugh/

then a blog is a good idea for a diary
or sharing photos
http://lapham36.blogspot.com/

lastly gedcom here
http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=lapham
new cousins often find me

all are free to use
so will not be deleted if you stop paying

when you die the pages become the intellectual property of your heirs

http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/FAQ/wcindex.html


Hugh W

John wrote:

On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 15:58:21 GMT, "SCraig" <[email protected]> wrote:


We're doing a family reunion and want to also create a website that will
permanently house the results of the reunion plus other extended family
information. Ancestry.con offers a site for $30 per year. Are there other
better offerings? What do you all recommend.

Thanks,
Craig



Go to http://www.godaddy.com to get a domain name ($8US/year or less)

Go to http://www.qualityhostonline.com to get their cheapest hosting package
($12US/year for 200MB Web space). It includes unlimited email
addresses and forwarding, multiple FTP accounts, etc.

I use http://www.qualityhostonline.com for my personal Web site:
http://www.jecarter.com

[Daphne Eze]

John wrote:

On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 15:58:21 GMT, "SCraig" <[email protected]> wrote:

We're doing a family reunion and want to also create a website that will
permanently house the results of the reunion plus other extended family
information. Ancestry.con offers a site for $30 per year. Are there other
better offerings? What do you all recommend.

Thanks,
Craig


Go to http://www.godaddy.com to get a domain name ($8US/year or less)

Go to http://www.qualityhostonline.com to get their cheapest hosting package
($12US/year for 200MB Web space). It includes unlimited email
addresses and forwarding, multiple FTP accounts, etc.

I use http://www.qualityhostonline.com for my personal Web site:
http://www.jecarter.com


I'm wondering why you get your domain name from godaddy.com but use

http://www.qualityhostonline.com for your web pages. Don't you have to pay to
transfere your domain name to http://www.qualityhostonline.com?

Cheers
Daphne

[Dave Hinz]

On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 20:35:09 GMT, Daphne Eze <[email protected]> wrote:

I'm wondering why you get your domain name from godaddy.com but use
http://www.qualityhostonline.com for your web pages. Don't you have to pay to
transfere your domain name to http://www.qualityhostonline.com?

I'm not John but I can answer this one. The registrar (godaddy) has the
DNS pointers to tell your system where to connect to for a website. The
webserver is at that address. A registrar is happy to have your
business and will point it to any DNS server you want; yours, theirs,
mine, someone else's, doesn't matter. That DNS server just tells the
client's system where to go for the content. It can, and often is,
completely separate from each other. I own 6 or 7 domains; 5 of them
are hosted in one place, and 1 or 2 others are in a couple other places.
(vagueness is accurate and intentional here, one of the domains I'm
selling today).

For most of my stuff I'm using Dotster both for registry and for
hosting. One-stop shopping is sometimes more important than absolute
lowest cost, especially when we're talking dozens of dollars a year.

Dave Hinz

[Daphne Eze]

So, if I understand you correctly, I would just tell godaddy where my
website is hosted and I wouldn't have to pay more to do this. Is that
what you mean?

Thanks
Daphne

Dave Hinz wrote:

On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 20:35:09 GMT, Daphne Eze <[email protected]> wrote:

I'm wondering why you get your domain name from godaddy.com but use
http://www.qualityhostonline.com for your web pages. Don't you have to pay to
transfere your domain name to http://www.qualityhostonline.com?

I'm not John but I can answer this one. The registrar (godaddy) has the
DNS pointers to tell your system where to connect to for a website. The
webserver is at that address. A registrar is happy to have your
business and will point it to any DNS server you want; yours, theirs,
mine, someone else's, doesn't matter. That DNS server just tells the
client's system where to go for the content. It can, and often is,
completely separate from each other. I own 6 or 7 domains; 5 of them
are hosted in one place, and 1 or 2 others are in a couple other places.
(vagueness is accurate and intentional here, one of the domains I'm
selling today).

For most of my stuff I'm using Dotster both for registry and for
hosting. One-stop shopping is sometimes more important than absolute
lowest cost, especially when we're talking dozens of dollars a year.

Dave Hinz

[Paul Blair]

Daphne Eze wrote:

So, if I understand you correctly, I would just tell godaddy where my
website is hosted and I wouldn't have to pay more to do this. Is that
what you mean?

Thanks
Daphne

Dave Hinz wrote:
On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 20:35:09 GMT, Daphne Eze <[email protected]> wrote:

I'm wondering why you get your domain name from godaddy.com but use
http://www.qualityhostonline.com for your web pages. Don't you have to pay
to transfere your domain name to http://www.qualityhostonline.com?

I'm not John but I can answer this one. The registrar (godaddy) has the
DNS pointers to tell your system where to connect to for a website. The
webserver is at that address. A registrar is happy to have your
business and will point it to any DNS server you want; yours, theirs,
mine, someone else's, doesn't matter. That DNS server just tells the
client's system where to go for the content. It can, and often is,
completely separate from each other. I own 6 or 7 domains; 5 of them
are hosted in one place, and 1 or 2 others are in a couple other places.
(vagueness is accurate and intentional here, one of the domains I'm
selling today).
For most of my stuff I'm using Dotster both for registry and for
hosting. One-stop shopping is sometimes more important than absolute
lowest cost, especially when we're talking dozens of dollars a year.
Dave Hinz

Rootschat.com offer free space....as they say, 50Mb space, 500Mb
bandwidth per month, PHP and SQL included, no annoying pop-ups.

http://www.rootschat.com

Paul