 Affordable Web Hosting Services for Small Catholic Web Site Development
Introduction
As the Catholic web site administrator of this site, I started a Catholic
online presence in 12 May 2002, with the http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thespiritslove.
Since then, I had the opportunity to try out three web hosting services to host
our Catholic web site network. In the use of these services, I give a brief
web hosting review to help interested Catholic individuals and families
to choose which web host they need to join the universal Catholic mission
of proclaiming the gospel on the Net and to promote a culture of respect,
dialogue and friendship in the "new digital continent".
After our first Catholic web site with Yahoo! Web Hosting, in April 2005, we
decided to build a second Catholic web site to strengthen the network of the
first. Since we've already used Bravenet.com's free web hosting service, we
naturally decided (like we did with Yahoo's free web hosting service, Geocities),
to purchase a web hosting package with Bravenet.com.
With Bravenet.com hosting our second Catholic web site, we were
able to promote our free Catholic eBook - the eBook that promoted our
web developer methods, and our Catholic network of sites. Bravenet.com
helped us to harvest a lot of eBook subscribers and at the same time,
extend the reach of our first Catholic web site network with Yahoo!
to Bravenet.com's network.
At the time we availed of Bravenet.com's web hosting service,
we had to manually upload the WordPress blog software so that we could
host a blog on the site. It seemed quite a task at first, but as we
succeeded, it helped obtain for us additional knowledge in web development.
Compared to Yahoo! Web Hosting, Bravenet.com has more file extensions
supported - most especially the .exe file extension required for a
Catholic eBook project.
If you are considering a web hosting service that supports many file extensions
- especially the .exe file extension to promote an eBook - then Bravenet.com is
a very good web hosting service to patronize. With one WordPress blog installed,
and a free Catholic eBook to promote your Catholic web site network, Bravenet.com
can expand the services you plan to provide Catholic individuals and families.
Since 2007, Bravenet.com has added even more additional perks and features for
their web hosting service.
1and1.com Web Hosting Review
In June 2007, the global economy showed already some signs and indicators
that would prefigure what would happen in mid-2008. Because of the sudden
changes, we had to switch web hosting services for our second Catholic
network at Bravenet.com. One major factor for a new choice was
a web host that would help us cutback on operational costs.
An SEO Techniques teacher promoted always 1and1.com web hosting service in
our SEO class. Taking her advice, we reopened our second Catholic web site
with 1and1.com web hosting service, under the new domain name gospel-and-culture.info.
Unlike Yahoo! Web Hosting and Bravenet.com Web Hosting, 1and1.com hosted
our second Catholic web site on a Linux-based server. This gave
us the opportunity to learn about Active Server Pages (.ASP), to promote
better our free Catholic eBook. With 1and1.com web hosting service, we
were able to make our second Catholic web site more interactive with
searchers online and with our regular readers and visitors.
If you like a more interactive Catholic web site, then 1and1.com
can be of help to you, as they can support the .exe file extensions
of a Catholic eBook, and the .asp pages needed to create interactive
email forms. This favorable combination can make it easier for
potential eBook subscribers to interact with your web site.
The year 2008 proved to be a really very challenging year to operate
a small Catholic web site, especially within a global economic environment
that has entered into a serious crisis. We had to close down our second
Catholic web site with 1and1.com web hosting service. And to make things
even more challenging, we did not have our first Catholic web site
network hosted by Yahoo! anymore. For the first time, the loss of two
Catholic web sites meant a loss of two important networks and contacts
online. Fortunately, I was able to engage in social networking at
Facebook.com. The network I have been building there renewed
the strength of the Catholic network we began in May 2002.
With prices skyrocketing everywhere, I had to search for a low-cost
web hosting service. This time, the solution was not in web hosting
services based abroad, but with a local web hosting service: Philhosting.Net.
With Philhosting.Net, we were able to rebuild our Catholic web site again
and to start a new network connected with Facebook.com.
Philhosting.Net is quite a superb web hosting service. When I inquired
by email if they could support (aside from the standard .html file
extension) .swf, .psd, .fla, .jpg, .php, and .exe file extensions,
they responded that they do. And so, after waiting for the right time
to rebuild our Catholic web site network, we opted for an initial
100MB file storage Windows-based web hosting service with Philhosting.Net
under the domain www.c-web-developer.net. On February 2009, we shifted
to an even lower cost web hosting service - using a Linux-based web
server. This web hosting package is called Personal Light. The shift
to this new web hosting service cut our web site
operating costs even more and gave us the opportunity to expand well
our Catholic web site network.
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web developer methods and resources for building a Catholic web site,
you can download our
free Catholic eBook. You may download it to
your desktop and request from us the password to access the content
of the eBook.
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Dennis Emmanuel Cabrera
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