web hosting

web hosting

[Scott Howell]

FOlks, I know some of you are using hosting services for web sites and 
such. A friend of mine is starting up a business and wants to find a 
good hosting service that would give him a couple of gigs. If anyone has 
a recommendation, please send me a note to n3byy@adelphia.net.
Also, on an unrelated note, if anyone has used Asterisk to access VOIP 
services like Vonage etc. could you let me know if this works? I 
understand there are some services you can get numbers from for free, 
but don't know how best to dig into these services. I was out and saw a 
piece of hardware from Linksys you can plug your phones into for about 
$50, but you had to subscribe to the Vonage service. The same was with 
Verizon, you had to use their hardware as its assigned a mac address and 
you couldn't use your own stuff and provide them a mac and I've been 
considering VOIP, but I would really hate to get tied to one service 
based on this issue of assigned macs etc.
Any thoughts?

tnx

Re: web hosting

[Steve Holmes]

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For the web hosting, I recommend Ultra Host at www.ultrahost.us
Jeff Harris, a blind guy runs it and he offers it for $100 per year; it
includes unlimitted disk storage, unlimitted mail accounts, unlimitted
mail forwarders, 30 GB transfer per month (I believe), and a host of
various web based applications that can be optionally mounted at no
extra cost such as mailman, guest books, and even a couple blogging
facilities.  I pay $20 per year additionally so I have a dedicated I/P
for the FTP server so I can use a more standard anonymous FTP setup.

As a Cognigen rep, I can recommend several VOIP providers but they fall
more in the lines of using an adapter issued from them and would be
removed pretty much from your computers; that probably isn't what you
would be looking for.  If there is interest in that part of things, then
write me privately.

On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 06:51:36AM -0400, Scott Howell wrote:
> FOlks, I know some of you are using hosting services for web sites and 
> such. A friend of mine is starting up a business and wants to find a 
> good hosting service that would give him a couple of gigs. If anyone has 
> a recommendation, please send me a note to n3byy@adelphia.net.
> Also, on an unrelated note, if anyone has used Asterisk to access VOIP 
> services like Vonage etc. could you let me know if this works? I 
> understand there are some services you can get numbers from for free, 
> but don't know how best to dig into these services. I was out and saw a 
> piece of hardware from Linksys you can plug your phones into for about 
> $50, but you had to subscribe to the Vonage service. The same was with 
> Verizon, you had to use their hardware as its assigned a mac address and 
> you couldn't use your own stuff and provide them a mac and I've been 
> considering VOIP, but I would really hate to get tied to one service 
> based on this issue of assigned macs etc.
> Any thoughts?
> 
> tnx
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 
> 

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Re: web hosting

[Janina Sajka]

RE hosting -- Try Speakeasy: http://www.speakeasy.net

RE Asterisk and VOIP -- Quite a few of us are doing that already. For
instance, I am 100% voip these days (except for my cell phone).

However, Vonage and Asterisk will not mix. You'll need another service
provider--but that's trivial. There are quite a few good choices, imho.

Scott Howell writes:
> FOlks, I know some of you are using hosting services for web sites and 
> such. A friend of mine is starting up a business and wants to find a 
> good hosting service that would give him a couple of gigs. If anyone has 
> a recommendation, please send me a note to n3byy@adelphia.net.
> Also, on an unrelated note, if anyone has used Asterisk to access VOIP 
> services like Vonage etc. could you let me know if this works? I 
> understand there are some services you can get numbers from for free, 
> but don't know how best to dig into these services. I was out and saw a 
> piece of hardware from Linksys you can plug your phones into for about 
> $50, but you had to subscribe to the Vonage service. The same was with 
> Verizon, you had to use their hardware as its assigned a mac address and 
> you couldn't use your own stuff and provide them a mac and I've been 
> considering VOIP, but I would really hate to get tied to one service 
> based on this issue of assigned macs etc.
> Any thoughts?
> 
> tnx
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

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Janina Sajka				Phone: +1.202.494.7040
Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC	http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com
Bringing the Owasys 22C screenless cell phone to the U.S. and Canada. Go to http://www.ScreenlessPhone.Com to learn more.

Chair, Accessibility Workgroup		Free Standards Group (FSG)
janina@freestandards.org		http://a11y.org

Re: web hosting

[Nick G]

www.fmservers.org for standard Cpanel hosting, and if you want an unmetered,
shell acount based host, www.tbrn.net/beyondhosting
----- Original Message -----
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina@rednote.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2005 10:32 AM
Subject: Re: web hosting


> RE hosting -- Try Speakeasy: http://www.speakeasy.net
>
> RE Asterisk and VOIP -- Quite a few of us are doing that already. For
> instance, I am 100% voip these days (except for my cell phone).
>
> However, Vonage and Asterisk will not mix. You'll need another service
> provider--but that's trivial. There are quite a few good choices, imho.
>
> Scott Howell writes:
> > FOlks, I know some of you are using hosting services for web sites and
> > such. A friend of mine is starting up a business and wants to find a
> > good hosting service that would give him a couple of gigs. If anyone has
> > a recommendation, please send me a note to n3byy@adelphia.net.
> > Also, on an unrelated note, if anyone has used Asterisk to access VOIP
> > services like Vonage etc. could you let me know if this works? I
> > understand there are some services you can get numbers from for free,
> > but don't know how best to dig into these services. I was out and saw a
> > piece of hardware from Linksys you can plug your phones into for about
> > $50, but you had to subscribe to the Vonage service. The same was with
> > Verizon, you had to use their hardware as its assigned a mac address and
> > you couldn't use your own stuff and provide them a mac and I've been
> > considering VOIP, but I would really hate to get tied to one service
> > based on this issue of assigned macs etc.
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> > tnx
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>
> --
>
> Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040
> Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com
> Bringing the Owasys 22C screenless cell phone to the U.S. and Canada. Go
to http://www.ScreenlessPhone.Com to learn more.
>
> Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG)
> janina@freestandards.org http://a11y.org
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>

Re: web hosting

[Buddy Brannan]

For my Web hosting, I've started using Globalnet again. $19.95 gets a  
bunch of stuff:
http://clickit.url123.com/webhost

For a VOIP service, I've started using Viatalk. New service, seems  
reliable. $22.95 for unlimited US/Canada, prepay is a cheaper (i.e.  
prepay two years up front comes to $15.95/month, but who wants to pay  
that much time in advance?) Not only is the adapter you can get from  
them unlocked so you can use the second port for another service like  
Free World Dialup, but they're also bring your own device friendly.  
Their voicemail and etc. even seem to be using Asterisk. At any rate,:
http://clickit.url123.com/viatalk

Note both are affiliate links.

Anyway, I really happy with Viatalk for a couple reasons...BYOD for  
one, support was very nice about telling me that their device  
(Linksys PAP2 or something) is unlocked, and the Viatalk Web site is  
simple, uncluttered, and easy to navigate.

Buddy

Re: web hosting

[Scott Howell]

Folks, thank you for answering my questions for hosting and VOIP. I 
for sure didn't like AT&T, Verizon, nor Vonage. Vonage is into pressure 
sales, but that doesn't bother me all that much, they couldn't offer me 
an exchange that wasn't ld from my location, but again not a big deal, 
but the thing that really clinched it was well no I lied its two things, 
but one is the topper of all. First the fact I couldn't provide my own 
adapter annoyed me, but the real looloo was they provided two different 
sotries and I call them lies.
First one gal said there were no taxes and I could cancel in the first 6 
months, first 4 months or whatever and there was no fees etc. Well the 
fact from another gal is that not only is their a setup fee wich if you 
took the unlimited plan $40.84, you did pay taxes, and if you canceled 
in the first 12 months, there's a disconnection fee of about $40 and you 
have to return the adapter. I was so pist that I got the two different 
sotries and what really added to this is the fact that if you act now, 
they'll enroll you, yes enroll you for the 30-day money back guarantee. 
Now how's that for a kicker.
I really think its one thng to get the facts up front, but quite another 
to get wholey different stories and if I had gone with the first gal and 
ordered, I'd have gotten quite a shock.
So Asterisk or other vendor is what I'll look into. I just want to 
figure out how to wire my house so all outlets for phones are included. 
I have a cordless phone system with two sets, but may just have to get 
another so I have them in the rooms I need instead of trying to rewire 
the place.

tnx
Scott