Losing my e-mail and web addresses

[LCHIEN]

I actually have 2 ISPs, one I'm using SWBell cum SBC cum ATT for my DSL service and have e-mail addresses with them of course but don't use it.
I also have a dialup ISP (EV1) from way back they only charge $10 per month so I have retained them to keep my mail address and to keep my 300MB allotment of on-line space.

But, EV1 has announced that they are getting out of the dialup and thus the ISP business Nov 12 and only will do web hosting. So I'm losing my e-mail and web space - addresses I've used for a long time. PC People will get e-mails forwarded to their servers (I'm really not interested in PCPeople.) Don't know how they'll handle web space.

It affects BT3 because most of my pics I have linked to my EV1 webspace and the BT3 FAQ is there. I can edit the BT3FAQ link in the first post of getting started, I guess the rest of the pics I have here are toast, I will probably move them to my ATT space but anyone trying to look at them will have to manually edit the links.

The other thing I hate is not so much changing addresses for personal e-mails (I do have a permanent forwarding e-mail address from my college) but getting all my web registrations messed up.

Any thoughts? Options? (I guess that's why I should have my own domain...
What's the cheapest you can get that for?)

[cgallery]

Or you could always get a Yahoo mail or Gmail account for all your registrations. Will likely never change.

[LCHIEN]

Or you could always get a Yahoo mail or Gmail account for all your registrations. Will likely never change.

Actually I have those too. but Spam is out of control on the yahoo account.

[Ken Massingale]

Actually I have those too. but Spam is out of control on the yahoo account.

I agree about Yahoo addresses and Spam, Loring. I haven't had that issue with Gmail, however.
I use mds-host and have been happy with them. 500MB storage and 5 GB bandwidth for $6.95/month.

[bigfoot]

Check into MSN's Live Office. They have a free version that gives you your own domain name, free hosting, 5 email addresses. I can't remember all the particulars, but if you decide to change down the line, the domain name is yours, you just have to start paying the yearly registration on it at that point. It's kind of a sweet deal. (And that is coming from a person who has hated MS for YEARS)

[crokett]

Loring,

I use gmail. Their spam filter is really good. I can't remember the last time I had spam in my actual inbox.

[Ken Massingale]

Loring,

I use gmail. Their spam filter is really good. I can't remember the last time I had spam in my actual inbox.

Same here David. Not much comes, what does is filtered to the Spam folder. I check it at times to ensure no good stuff had been flagged.

[cabinetman]

I fell into MSN by accident, got free email, and a website with a URL. It hosts my pictures and has many options as far as a forum and links. You can set up pages at will, and it's all free. You can post pictures without posting links. I learned the hard way about that.



"I'M NEVER WRONG - BUT I'M NOT ALWAYS RIGHT"

[cgallery]

I agree about Yahoo addresses and Spam, Loring. I haven't had that issue with Gmail, however.
I use mds-host and have been happy with them. 500MB storage and 5 GB bandwidth for $6.95/month.

Interesting. I've had a yahoo E-Mail account far longer than my G-Mail account. I get five times more E-Mail (mostly spam) to my Yahoo account, but seem to have less sneak past the filter than at my G-Mail account. I would think both of them would use the same basic spam-assassin type of filtering. Now that I've said this, of course, I'll start getting hundreds through both.

[LCHIEN]

I've offloaded about 100 MB from my existing web space.
I was going to transfer it to my AT&T SBC web space only to find I've got none despite paying $25 per month. They tell me I am entitled to 15 MB at Geocities but so is apparently every joe on the internet. I told the help line guy you can't even spit in 15 MB.

So all the pictures I have posted on BT3Central will become broken links in a few weeks. The FAQ, too. I tried searching BT3Central to find all the posts in which I have linked to my web space and BT3's search has failed me again. Despite fairly unique keywords in the links that should bring up every post in which I've linked, searching for http://users2.ev1.net/~lchien does not locate any posts, nor does ev1.net, users2, ~lchien or other unique combination that would only be found in my links. I was wanting to count them first of all but I can't even do that.

I was hoping to have some similar web space address and keep the same structure and at least just doa search and replace type edit for the first part of the URL for the links but that's looking bad...

Any suggestions on how to locate my links at BT3 central (it appears after playing a little more that the Search tool ignores any html including link addresses it may find and does not include them in the search)
and on moving files so that they can still be relinked with minimal effort?

Anyone had experience with yahoo/geocities as a web/file host? $5 per month for 500MB/2GB bandwidth.

I've already spent hours changing e-mails and aliases and forwarding addresses and I've only just begun.

[onedash]

I think I pay 16 a year for my domain name and I have a good web hosting package from http://www.kalypsoweb.com/idevaffili...ate.php?id=103 (a Marine buddy of mine). He just purchased his own servers and leases bandwidth. Its a pretty awsome deal. You can get a domain from him for $9 a year I think, but im paid up for a few years already. You get emails, subdomains, lots of bandwidth and disk space for a great price.