General Questions

[Guest Lee]

I would like to put our company website on the www.

The design of the website is made in house and pretty simple, "4MB".

It will mostly be used for general company information as our products are very technical and needs life support by telephone.

Our website will be a base to guide potential customers to us.

We need it for the e-mail addresses and correspondence(about 12 e-mail accounts), where the correspondence is always copied to a head account.

We also have registered different domain names and would like that all inquiries of any of those domain names are guided to one single head domain.

The most difficult item in our website is CGI Script(Form) to order a catalog, the rest is all information.

We expect not many hits per month, less than 100,000 hits a month.

What plan would you recommend and what additional help for setting up our website can you offer?

Thanks.

 

Lee

[TCH-JimE]

Hi,

 

Its rather difficult to say, but I would say the starter plan ($44 total) would do you fine.

 

I am on the silver plan, and this is what my website draws in a month:

 

My website gets 4846 unique vistors per month, creating 97960 viewed pages and created 464897 hits in one month which created 2092 (2gig) mb worth of bandwidth with a site that only has 50mb in files. This means that I have shed loads of space left over which is the way I planned it.

 

Therefore, if your expecting less then 100,000 hits (remember hits are not vistors) and only have 4mb worth of web files with a CGI file, and wanting only 12 email address, then based on what my site pulls in, the starter plan would be the best.

 

When it comes to setting up a website, you will need an offical response for that!

 

Jim

[SEO]

You can simply start of with the 'Starter Plan'. If need be in the future, you can always do a simple upgrade.

 

With the Simple Plan:

 

The design of the website is made in house and pretty simple, "4MB".

You get 300 MB.

 

We need it for the e-mail addresses and correspondence(about 12 e-mail accounts), where the correspondence is always copied to a head account.

 

You get unlimited number of email accounts and email forwarding.

 

The most difficult item in our website is CGI Script(Form) to order a catalog, the rest is all information.

There is a built in FormMail script on the server (in a cgi-sys directory):

 

<form action="http://www.yourdomainname.com/cgi-sys/FormMail.cgi" method="POST" name="form1">

<input type="hidden" name="recipient" value="you@yourdomainname.com">

<input type="hidden" name="subject" value="MyForm">

<input type="hidden" name="redirect" value="http://www.yourdomainname.com/redirect_page_like_a_thank_you.html">

 

We expect not many hits per month, less than 100,000 hits a month.

 

You get 5.5GB of bandwith transfer. Again, if you need to upgrade... very easy.

 

 

We also have registered different domain names and would like that all inquiries of any of those domain names are guided to one single head domain.

 

 

Dangerous if you are considering being listed within the search engines. This can be viewed as spamming. Best to either have a 'real' page (meaning one with real text and just a link to your real site) for each domain name or not use them at all.

 

Good Luck.

[Guest Pat COnley]

CAn I temporarily 'park' a domain name? I want to set up a sitefor a local election but once the election is over we won't need the site for another couple of years. And I DO want to keep the domain name- just have it go 'inactive' between campaigns.

 

Can this be done?

[Junior]

CAn I temporarily 'park' a domain name? I want to set up a sitefor a local election but once the election is over we won't need the site for another couple of years. And I DO want to keep the domain name- just have it go 'inactive' between campaigns.

 

Can this be done?

 

This can, most likely, be parked at your registrar when you are finished. We do not park domain names on TotalChoice.