My snowdrop page is down

[mark smyth]

My web site snowdropinfo is down and the hosts, Heartinternet, will not release it so I can host it elsewhere. Looks like I'll will have to register a new name with another company and host it with them. Once I do that it's easy to upload to the new web site.

I'm thinking of initially having photos only and going for the name galanthusgallery.com

[bulborum]

Sounds as Facebook
They delete sometimes without warning
Twice this year for me
I refuse to send my id

Roland

[WimB]

That's strange, Mark...what do they give as a reason?

Roland, FB is no host...that's just a website, you don't pay anything to rent webspace with them, so in the end they can do whatever they want, but a host should respect the rented space!

[bulborum]

You are right about that , although they make money with all their advertisements

Maybe they prefer bigger customers as Mark and they stop with the smaller clients
It's just a thought

Roland

[rgc]

Hi Mark
Looked at one of your other websites (marksgardenplants) and noted that quite a few of the links had error 404: page not found.

Thought that I would mention it in case that you were not aware. I run a few websites for my other hobby and am always keen to have any errors reported to me.
Regards
Bob

[mark smyth]

Thanks but it looks like all my web sites will go under due to Heart Internet. If I knew how to host my own I would

[rgc]

Hi Mark
I use Easyspace at:  www.easyspace.com for my domain name registrations and web hosting.

Not had any problems. (Hope that I am not tempting fate.)
Bob

[WimB]

We (the Flemish rock garden society) use eurohost...never had any problems with them (apart from the downtime for maintenance). To host your own website, you need a server which is constantly running and has a stable connection to the internet...I think that can be quite costly, but Fred is more knowledgeable about that as the SRGC hosts their own website if I'm correct??

[Alan_b]

To host your own website, you need a server which is constantly running and has a stable connection to the internet...I think that can be quite costly,

Yes, you would need a computer that is always on and awake and a fixed IP address.  You might have to pay your ISP a small premium for that; the norm is that you get a new IP address (from your ISP's pool) every time your router re-establishes the internet connection

[Diane Whitehead]

You may be able to rescue your information from the Wayback Machine.

http://web.archive.org/web/*/snowdropinfo.com

[Neil]

Mark try hear

http://www.nominet.uk/domains/resolving-uk-domain-disputes-and-complaints/

[Dave Hardy]

Hi Mark,
I use Weebly for the Northern Ireland Daffodil Group site. Very easy to use and free depending on what you plan to add to it.
www.nidg.weebly.com
I tried a few different ones at first but found this the most straight forward.

Dave

[Carolyn Walker]

Mark, You may have resolved this by now, but I use WordPress to host my blog/website.  You can use wordpress.com for free or you can pay for wordpress.org. 

[mark smyth]

I think I'll do what Paddy suggested. Pay the ransom, buy a new name and redirect people