web hosting plans, quick question ^^ Options

[ChasingLife87]

Alrighty. I'm comparing plans for buying a domain with hosting and all of that, going down the BBOR list (aren't you proud of me? A CB user that knows how to use that! *rolls eyes*).

I'm going to use the main domain as a personal site/blog (I'm aiming toward something like www.beccary.com)... one of the subdomains will be for an invisionfree forum, and then normal subdomains, that type of thing.

Anyhow, I'm not really sure what I'm looking for, plan-wise. Lower price equals better (lol), subdomains equals better, and more space equals better, to a point. I don't need gads of empty space I'm not going to use but have to pay for, but I want to make sure that I have more than enough for forums and personal stuff, etc and so forth.

PHP and FTP are musts, I know that (even though PHP scares me, I'd need it for wordpress).

Any advice?

[ChasingLife87]

HOORAY!!

I just purchased a domain from My Value Host, and signed up for a year of hosting on SurpassHosting! Thank you Michelle for recommending those sites to me, they seemed to be the best deal.

Fae, the domain was $4 and the hosting was $4.99 a month, if that fits your needs. I TOTALLY understand about the gas prices!

So! http://www.melilyn.com should be up soon, and when it is, I'll throw quite the party! Thanks, guys!

EDIT --- before this gets closed...
Quick question... how long does it take before my domain is not "pending" and I'm able to work with it?

[jordanriane]

HOORAY!!

EDIT --- before this gets closed...
Quick question... how long does it take before my domain is not "pending" and I'm able to work with it?

You need to change your domain nameservers to point to your surpass dns' which you should've received in the automated e-mail from them.

I'm not familiar with MVH, but maybe it's the same with godaddy..

Just log into your account, select your domain, and look for where you can edit the nameservers. Once you get that done, it sometimes takes a couple of hours to 24/48 hours, pending the site and whatnot.

If you've already changed the nameservers, you basically just need to keep checking on your website to see when it'll be ready, as you never truly know when they're propagated entirely.

Glad you went with surpasshosting. I use them to host my reseller account, and have had an amazing time with them, out of all of the hosts I've been with.