I Need Some Advice!

As some of you may know I own a small PC repair shop which I run from home.

I also have a website but its not profitable and its costing me $39.99 per month and this is money I could use somewhere else, do you thing it is vital in the pc industry to have a website? OR should I tough it out? and reopen the site once I have the income?

 

Definitely move to a cheaper site. Determine what you're paying $40 a month for, and then shop around.

 

Check out 1&1 Hosting. Their packages are pretty reasonable.

Odds are the you would only need one of the low-end packages. Their most expensive Linux package is only $14.99 right now (usually $19.99). That comes with 5 domains, 600 subdomains, 300 GB storage, 4000 email accounts... way more than you need, eh?

Check 'em out.

 

Also check with your local library, city and county, many run big servers and sell space cheap. I've had an account with my library for several years. 140 a year and that is after a 30 dollar raise this year.

As to whether you need one, if you can afford it I'd say yes, but if you can't afford it then don't.

Personally I often check out new businesses online locally and if they don't have a site I may or may not drive to see them, usually not. But then I am a computer nut that needs lots of parts, and junk :laugh:

 

my site is

www.jlcustompc.com

I have way more than 18 pages and I would need hosting that offers unlimited pages and products and I don't think anyone does what I need them to do cheaper. If you can recommend webhosting fantastic!

1&1 want work I would need there developer eshop package which is $49.99


Thanks for all your help!

 

Don't know the limits but I've had earthlink.net for years. You are limited to 10 meg each on 5 accounts I think. Also, though some don't like godaddy.com I've been with them a year plus and seems to work for me.

Networksolutions.com used to be high priced but I went to transfer a domain from them to godaddy and they met the price so might be worth a look.

Sharp site!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Have you checked out the prices on www.geocities.com?

 

geocities is great for beginners and ppl looking to just have a site they are not capable of giving me what I want and need.........I may already have the best deal my only other option that I know of that is better and cheaper is going through one of my distributors they actually host, market, and control inventory but you have to pay upfront for 1 year and its hard to come up with large lump sums of cash!

 

My friend and I do web hosting (free ministry hosting through minihost.org, paid personal/business hosting through blue-ion.net). If you tell me what you need, I can give you a free custom quote and hopefully shave a good chunk off your hosting bill every month.

 

what ever hosting i get i need it to provide everything i need to run a e-shop

with unlimited products and pages!

www.jlcustompc.com is my site i need host that does it all!

 

How much server space are you using now? And bandwidth statistics?

I use pjlhosting.com

$50 a year for 500 megs. Shopping cart support. $10 more per year for MySQL.

There are others out there that offer more space for about the same price, but they've done right by me.

 

Here's another option:

http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting/compare.php#close