Hi tweetysamm,
It's overselling, a term used to describe such strategy in our industry.

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Theoretically that is how it works, but practically, you do that only if you have static web sites. If you have a dynamic web site, it is a big no no. If you want to run a backup site, you will have to use an active DNS server, replicate mySQL databases on secondary server from primary and do the required MX record to ensure emails are delivered to the correct place.

This is very tedious because you will need root access on both servers. You can't do that with shared hosting account.

Hope that helps

Hi,
There's a complete list here:
http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=208286

Remember, the cheapest is not always the best. You always get what you pay for

Good luck!

Or the flash content is too large and takes a long time to load?

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The reason is because you're using a free hosting.

If you purchase a paid web hosting account, you will not see any banners

Anyways, since you run a forum, I would suggest you to consider reliability over pricing. I'm sure you won't want your forum users to run away if your forum is down frequently.

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It is very hard to judge how much bandwidth will consume for 80 posts per day. Probably you can start with a company that suits your budget. Avoid unmetered/unlimited bandwidth hosting companies.

Paid hosting, you'll get an address like this:
http://iphere/~user/ anyways it doesn't matter because you'll get your domain name to mask up the IP.

There's no difference if you register your domain and hosting from different companies.

Subdomain features is given by the hosting account. Just point the domain DNS to your hosting provider and you can start with the subdomain

Good luck!

It is not impossible but hosting your site at home limits your number of concurrent visitors.

Yes, any hosting companies that give you the ability to have your own subdomain has this feature

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Use FTP clients like WS_FTP, CuteFTP or SmartFTP to upload to your web space.

Anyways, uploading MP3 to your web site will lead to it being suspended, so good luck to you!

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Hi,
Welcome to the forum.

The advantage of purchasing a domain from a local company is, you are able to make the payment via bank transfer or cheque whereas if you purchase it from a foreign country, you can only use credit card or Paypal. Whoever you purchase the domain from, make sure the Domain Registrant's information reflects yours.

As for the second question, I'm afraid I don't quite understand it.

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You can only remove the ADs if you host your blog in a paid hosting account instead of with blogspot.

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Yes it is.

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The problem is, there's no such thing as unlimited storage/bandwidth in this world. Unless you want to spend a few hundred bucks on these "unlimited" resources but in the end your account either gets terminated for overusing the resources, or one day you see no storage left/bandwidth exceeded because the other users on the server take up these resources.

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For domain names, any prices between $5 - $10 are reasonable. Yahoo's $1.99 domain, you can try it, but indeed, there were negative feedback on them.

Try www.namecheap.com

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I don't have any domains with Namecheap but I have seen many positive feedback on them. They are registering the domains through eNom, which is one of the largest domain registrar in the market.

We use eNom to register our names. They are very good. I am not recommending them to you because you can only register eNom names at a more affordable rate if you purchase their reseller account. Furthermore, due to high fraudulent orders, they have blocked Malaysian IPs from registering domains with them. I'm fortunate because my colleagues are helping me to register the names from Singapore.

As for NetKL, I'm afraid I do not have any experience dealing with them.

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