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I took another step today towards getting this site online. I took all of the files and stuff off of my Geocities site. Now I just have to decide whether to cancel the “membership” or upgrade to one of their better hosting packages. While it might be nice to do one of the upgrades at Geocities (don’t have to worry about cancelling the account, or signing up with a new hosting service), on the face, their packages don’t seem all that good. They offer a domain name, 5 email addresses, and 50 megs of storage for $8.95/mo. There are other places offering more or less the same thing, with over 100 megs of storage for between $10 – $35/mo. There are even places out there that specialize in hosting Nuke and Slash sites. Most of them offer Apache, PHP, and MySQL, which would be nice, so I don’t have to take up the space supplying them myself.

Another thing about Geocities, that I noticed today is that they don’t allow scripts. They had a list of “acceptable” file formats, (including a few I had never heard of) but PHP wasn’t among them…of course, neither was ASP. Perl was, however. Interesting. I figured they didn’t want somebody running a business from one of the lower hosting levels. Comments, anyone?

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