recomendation for an Israely registrar and web hosting

[Amos Shapira]

On 26 April 2010 03:39, Micha <michf at post.tau.ac.il> wrote:
> It's not an Israely one, but I heard some horror stories regarding goDaddy for example (freezing domain names, etc.)

I don't know where this comes from.
I've been managing about 98 domains for about 3 years now with them
and have no problems at all.
Even more so - when transferring domains TO them FROM another
registrar I learned that GoDaddy actually offer a way to speed the
domain transfer (if it's transffered FROM them) which most others
don't, and had to wait the standard 5 business days cool-off period
for the other registrar to give away the domain.

Their SSL certificates seem to have problems with not-latest Java
JVM's not recognising their CA yet, but otherwise they are good too
and the cheapest I remember.

> I'm looking to setup a basic site for my wife for a small business.
> it will probably be mostly html, maybe some php to allow her to change some aspects without going into html (basic dynamic content creation based on file in the directory or simple inclusion / processing of text files).

I'm NOT a web site expert but had to setup a web site for my wife. The
site designer opted for HTML and PHP and now we are stuck with a nice
but "home brewed" web site which is a chore to maintain. I'd recommend
checking systems like Drupal/WordPress etc even for a small site. I've
been trying to switch over but didn't have time to complete it. If you
go this path then you might want to check sites like drupal.org.il
which might be able to help finding drupal hosting (and probably
similar sites for other CMS).

(I can't give recommendations about Israeli hosts as the site I'm
talking about is in Australia).

>
> No need to collect data, backup, etc. Possibly only mail support to setup a contact me page.
>
> I would be happy if it will be high volume since it would say a lot of potential customers, but I'm guessing pretty low traffic.
>
> Would prefer something relatively cheep as a start to see how things pick up.
> Once there is some cache inflow, it's easier to justify cache outflow ...

Smart point! I hear about people splashing on a too expensive web site
(and other perks) with no justification.

Good luck,

--Amos