Re: Best online presence?

All of the above is true. Myspace, Facebook, etc., suck and they will cram
advertising down the pipeline of anyone interested in you or your music.

Nonetheless, it can't hurt to have a page on some of the freebie sites, if
you're willing to put in the extra time to set them up.

HOWEVER, none of the freebies will take the place of having your own website
at www.yourownname.com. Do NOT host www.yourname.com at a free website:
It's tacky and will turn folks off. Also, the popups and ads will scare
away some potential clients who will know immediately that you're too cheap
to even pay $5 a month for ad-free hosting.

Buy a domain name for $8 a year or so, and pay the pittance ($4 to $8 a
month) to host it without unwanted advertising, pop-ups, redirects, spam,
etc. I find having the website is also useful for uploading songs and
charts for band members to learn, pictures or files folks might want to
download.

If you have your own domain name and ad-free site, you can also submit your
site to search engine crawlers and get some exposure on search engines. If
you use a freebie site, most search-engines crawlers will pick up the added
spam and thus keep you lower on search result lists.

I use Bluehost.com, which charges me something like $7 a month for 50GB of
storage, but now I think you get 300 GB for that price. In fact, they
even answered the phone when I called. I think they still have toll-free
phone support! I host several domains at my site and there's no extra
charge for the extra domains. They just charge me for the GB of available
storage and bandwidth, I haven't come anywhere close to even hitting 1/100th
of my available bandwidth per month, which is about 1TB.

They're not very good websites, since my webdesign skills suck and I don't
spend much time working on them or updating them. But that's my fault, not
Bluehost's.

I used Godaddy to register the domain names, but I wasn't really happy with
Godaddy's hosting. I do like them as a registrar, since they have lots of
nifty re-direct options, but their hosting kept wanting to charge me for
things that were free with other hosting companies, and they kept screwing
around with my DNS tables and permissions -- They figured they knew more
about DNS than I did, which was not the case. They'd try to explain their
screw-ups by telling me I didn't understand DNS. Not true. That was an
area of specialty for me when I tested servers at Microsoft. I'd ask them
to make an entry into the DNS table, and they'd argue with me. When GoDaddy
started monkeying with permissions and DNS entries, my sites kept
disappearing from the net.

I prefer keeping my hosting company and registrar separate, since then
neither one can hold me hostage. I can then use the registrar to point to
any hosting location I want. However, if you're not familiar with how DNS
works it might be easier to have one company do both the hosting and domain
name registration.



"enamon" <mikeuk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I would say why not all of them...

myspace, facebook etc are free,

freewebs do quick free websites, it will take you a few days to get
the go of it but that will do all your hosting of samples etc.


also provide do links to them all, one to the other, and find out how
to get in the top google ranking search positions.

good luck :)







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