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Title: My snowdrop page is down
Post by: mark smyth on December 20, 2015, 04:21:28 PM
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
Title: Re: My snowdrop page is down
Post by: bulborum on December 20, 2015, 04:50:40 PM
Sounds as Facebook
They delete sometimes without warning
Twice this year for me >:(
I refuse to send my id

Roland
Title: Re: My snowdrop page is down
Post by: WimB on December 20, 2015, 07:05:29 PM
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!
Title: Re: My snowdrop page is down
Post by: bulborum on December 20, 2015, 11:44:53 PM
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
Title: Re: My snowdrop page is down
Post by: rgc on December 21, 2015, 09:33:26 AM
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
Title: Re: My snowdrop page is down
Post by: mark smyth on December 21, 2015, 09:36:09 AM
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
Title: Re: My snowdrop page is down
Post by: rgc on December 21, 2015, 10:20:57 AM
Hi Mark
I use Easyspace at:  www.easyspace.com (http://www.easyspace.com) for my domain name registrations and web hosting.

Not had any problems. (Hope that I am not tempting fate.)
Bob
Title: Re: My snowdrop page is down
Post by: WimB on December 21, 2015, 10:34:19 AM
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??
Title: Re: My snowdrop page is down
Post by: Alan_b on December 21, 2015, 01:10:20 PM
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
Title: Re: My snowdrop page is down
Post by: Diane Whitehead on December 21, 2015, 04:49:20 PM
You may be able to rescue your information from the Wayback Machine.

http://web.archive.org/web/ (http://web.archive.org/web/)*/snowdropinfo.com
Title: Re: My snowdrop page is down
Post by: Neil on December 22, 2015, 10:31:41 AM
Mark try hear

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


Title: Re: My snowdrop page is down
Post by: Dave Hardy on December 22, 2015, 11:40:30 AM
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 (http://www.nidg.weebly.com)
I tried a few different ones at first but found this the most straight forward.

Dave
Title: Re: My snowdrop page is down
Post by: Carolyn Walker on January 06, 2016, 06:04:20 PM
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. 
Title: Re: My snowdrop page is down
Post by: mark smyth on January 06, 2016, 09:57:33 PM
I think I'll do what Paddy suggested. Pay the ransom, buy a new name and redirect people
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