whizzywyg
Wed., Jul. 2, 2008, 4:10 pm
Hello everyone...I'm back after a long period of time from when I posted my "Introduce Yourself". Trying to serve as webservant for my church and maintain a full time job and house has proven challenging. I wish I could just quit my job and work on the church's website. Oh well, I digress.
To the point, I'm interested in knowing what web hosting services other churches are using. I am hoping to launch our completely revised website that will use CSS, etc as we want to bring our current website (www.epiphanylc.org (http://www.epiphanylc.org)) into the 21st century :). We are going to make a switch to a new web host and I'd like to know if there are any good ones that are also Christian based/owned. I recently created a registration page on our website for VBS and learned that our current web hosting service doesn't allow us to create a form so that we can receive back information (they are very small and local and they would have to handle all the programming behind the scenes for a fee). We are going to switch web host providers because obviously that won't work for us. I made a mad dash to sign-up with EhostPros.com because the price was right and I needed a solution fast, but I've had support issues because even though they have a "western face", they must definitely be based in India because they'd always ask me to call back in 6 hours when their technical staff would be in, which would be the middle of the night for me. Below are some details about our website/direction:
1) Being developed using Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks etc (Adobe Web Premium suite). Will use CSS.
2) We're using CoffeeCup software's Form Builder for our forms. (I don't know JSP or any scripting languages yet to do it myself in Dreamweaver)
3) I want to use Linux hosting, not Windows
4) I need one that offers unlimited MySQL databases (or at least more than 10 like our current provider offers as CoffeeCup's Forms Builder requires a separate database for each form...I can't point it to different files within a database).
5) I like Cpanel's interface for managing the website
6) I'd like to have 24 hour support either by phone or chat (because of my day job, my web work for church is sometimes done at midnight)
7) We use Servant Keeper as our CMS so I'd like to know if there are web hosting services that are friendly with SK so we can network it and/or anyone on this forum that has networked SK successfully.
8) Naturally, price is a factor as I have little to no budget so I may have to pay for it myself.
9) Allows for a minimum of 5 domains.
10) Allows me to continue using GoDaddy for my domain name registration
11) No ads that would have to be on our website
12) Offers good security tools
13) FTP capabilities are a must
14) Allows port forwarding so we could possible purchase a server that could interact with our website...not DMZ though
15) A plus would be any that offer some training tools as I try to come up to speed on web programming and server setup/administration.
Thanks to all...hope this wasn't too long
To the point, I'm interested in knowing what web hosting services other churches are using. I am hoping to launch our completely revised website that will use CSS, etc as we want to bring our current website (www.epiphanylc.org (http://www.epiphanylc.org)) into the 21st century :). We are going to make a switch to a new web host and I'd like to know if there are any good ones that are also Christian based/owned. I recently created a registration page on our website for VBS and learned that our current web hosting service doesn't allow us to create a form so that we can receive back information (they are very small and local and they would have to handle all the programming behind the scenes for a fee). We are going to switch web host providers because obviously that won't work for us. I made a mad dash to sign-up with EhostPros.com because the price was right and I needed a solution fast, but I've had support issues because even though they have a "western face", they must definitely be based in India because they'd always ask me to call back in 6 hours when their technical staff would be in, which would be the middle of the night for me. Below are some details about our website/direction:
1) Being developed using Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks etc (Adobe Web Premium suite). Will use CSS.
2) We're using CoffeeCup software's Form Builder for our forms. (I don't know JSP or any scripting languages yet to do it myself in Dreamweaver)
3) I want to use Linux hosting, not Windows
4) I need one that offers unlimited MySQL databases (or at least more than 10 like our current provider offers as CoffeeCup's Forms Builder requires a separate database for each form...I can't point it to different files within a database).
5) I like Cpanel's interface for managing the website
6) I'd like to have 24 hour support either by phone or chat (because of my day job, my web work for church is sometimes done at midnight)
7) We use Servant Keeper as our CMS so I'd like to know if there are web hosting services that are friendly with SK so we can network it and/or anyone on this forum that has networked SK successfully.
8) Naturally, price is a factor as I have little to no budget so I may have to pay for it myself.
9) Allows for a minimum of 5 domains.
10) Allows me to continue using GoDaddy for my domain name registration
11) No ads that would have to be on our website
12) Offers good security tools
13) FTP capabilities are a must
14) Allows port forwarding so we could possible purchase a server that could interact with our website...not DMZ though
15) A plus would be any that offer some training tools as I try to come up to speed on web programming and server setup/administration.
Thanks to all...hope this wasn't too long