So, lovely tech-heads, where should I go for decent web hosting for my little fic site? Angelfire is turning off my fanbase with its pop-ups.

And could that sentence sound any more arrogant?

I have a domain name for the site already.

Connie, I've been happy with Host For Web. They're fairly reasonable, and have been up on a steady basis for most of the time I've been with them. (Outages that I'm aware of have all been of the planned variety.)

What about Go Daddy's hosting? They're offering 3.95 a month, 3.16 (ish) if you pay a year ahead.

What about Go Daddy's hosting? They're offering 3.95 a month, 3.16 (ish) if you pay a year ahead.

That might be who SA's going through, and I think she's been happy with her hosting.

I'd suggest cross-posting this in your LJ--you'll get a good cross-section of ficcish folk who can give you the skinny on who they've liked.

I've been happy with ICDSoft. $5 a month I think.

The green light on the front of my Tivo that's usually on is flashing (very slowly -- like, off for 5 seconds then on for one), and it's not showing anything on the TV screen, except sometimes a brief flash of light. Anybody know what's going on?

iValuehost.net have been pretty good. Basic package now gives you 450mb of space and 10gb of bandwidth for $3.95 a month (paid in advance for 12 months).

edited: screw iValuehost, they're a mob of pricks.

...plus five or six IE windows open...

Dude! If you must use IE, check out one of the front-ends for the thing.

[link] - GreenBrowser

[link] - Avant Browser

or switch to Opera or Firefox

What are the advantages of Opera over Firefox? Cause I know there are people here who lean that way.

What are the advantages of Opera over Firefox? Cause I know there are people here who lean that way.

I've been using Opera since '98, so I'm used to it more than any other browser. Opera are the pioneers of tabbed browsing (on Windows at least--so it irritates me when I read Firefox/Mozilla users raving about it as though they came up with the idea), so they have the concept down to a fine art. As a result, you have greater control over image and formatting display. Unlike other tabbed browsers, Opera allows you to display, or not-display images in individual tabs. Thus one tab can be set to display all images, a 2nd tab can display only cached images, while a 3rd tab can display no images. Very handy if you have a dial-up account and/or a download limit and want to check out a site/page with a lot of unnecessary images you don't want, while also visiting a site with images you do want. All with the click of a button.

Equally important is the formatting display. A simple click of a button allows you to toggle between author mode and user mode. This is a boon when you come across a page created by someone with absolutely no clue about layout or colour co-ordination, or who has set their "visited links" to the same colour as unvisited. User mode strips away everything to leave a simple black on white page, with default colouring for links. The latest version of Opera also takes this one step further and in User Mode you can specify such things as "Emulate a Text Browser", "Disable Tables", "Show Structural Elements" amongst other things. Again, this is specific to the individual tab.

Moreover, both image and formatting modes are inherited by new tabs opened from existing tabs.

Opera also comes with the most accessible keyboard short-cuts -- z and x for back and forward, g for toggling images on/off etc.. It also has mouse movements which are handy -- hold right-button, click left button to go forward; hold left-button, click right button to go back, etc..

The Opera download manager is also pretty good, allowing resumes or retransfers. Doesn't allow queuing though.

hmmm.. and why have never looked beyond explorer and netscape?