Posted by Carolyn Marenger on 11/17/42 11:42

wylbur37 wrote:

> A friend of mine has a small and simple website (static pages only)
> using AOL as the host. He also has an email address with them.
>
> Whenever he needs to update any of his webpages, he uses FrontPage and
> then apparently goes through some sort of AOL application that posts
> the new webpage onto the server.
>
> Recently he had his computer scanned to get rid of viruses/spyware and
> discovered afterwards that the AOL mechanism (that posts his webpages
> to the server) no longer works. I suspect that the AOL software had
> some sort of spyware wired into it, and the AdAware and/or Spybot S&D
> must have deleted that spyware. Has anyone found this to be true?
>
> To make a long story short, I was about to recommend that he take his
> website off AOL and find some other webhost elsewhere (especially
> since he gets DSL through his phone company and therefore doesn't need
> AOL for connectivity). I don't know how much he pays AOL, but I doubt
> that it's less than what other competitors would charge for a simple
> website. Any recommendations for simple webhosts?
>
> Are there websites that compare features and prices for webhosts?

www.netfirms.com is one possibility - it may be more than he needs.
www.godaddy.com offers a little less for a little less. (Godaddy will send
lots of sales promos and stuff whenever they can justify it.)

Carolyn
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