StreamKeepers of Lake Forest Park
Web Maintenance
This page contains details of how the LFP Stream keepers website is managed and a "blog" of on going website management details.;
Current Hosting Details
As of October 20, 2007: lfpstreamkeepers.org is hosted at 100megsWebhosting.com and Domain registration is done at 100MegsDomains.com
$50 per year for hosting (Paid through Nov 2008)
$8.95 for first year of domain registration, to go up to $12.95 a year next year.; (Paid through Nov 2008)
Note that Derek took $80 in donations from other Stream Keepers for web hosting at October 2007 benthic meeting. . . So I should be good for donations through 2009.
Reasons for 100Megs:
- On comcast personal page: URL's were obscured so reloads go back to home page rather than expected page
- Like the hosting service because it keeps things in one place. 100Megs was the choice because I'm using it for other sites: Could probably have gotten cheaper hosting else where but $60 a year seems OK.
- 100Megs does seem to have great support.
- Using 100megs domains because it has free URL forwarding and is $3 cheaper a year.
Dec 6, 2007: Published Scouts Article
- Published article abour PJ Hustands Eagle scout project.
November 18, 2007: Updates and Maintenance
- Removed email links and obscured @ sign in email address's on contents page to help eliminate spam to those addresses.
- Brightened up picture on this page.
Oct 21, 2007: Updating Details Found by Arthur
Fixing links and other details that Arthur found for 50cents a problem. . .
- McAleer Spelled wrong in Compiled BIBI, added 2007 Data.
- Fixed Blue Heron Spelling on chemical data forms
- Fixed spelling of maintenance
Derek . . .
Oct 20, 2007: Changing DNS Registration Service
I have Changing DNS Registration service to 100Megs Domain Registriation because it will be $3 cheaper than Dotster.com.
Order confirmation number is 34510406
Derek . ..
Oct 20, 2007: Have signed up for Hosting Service
I have signed up lfpstreamkeepers for hosting at 100megswebhosting.com.
Used 100megs because I have the Snoqualmienordic website hosted there and I am familiar with it. Probably could have found something a bit cheaper, but ~$60 a year seems ok for the convenience of working with something that I am familiar with.
Derek . . .
October 20, 2007: Details of Comcast hosting
For posterity here are the details of how this site was hosted at on a Comcast home email account:
The domain name "lfpstreamkeepers.org" was registered through http://www.dotster.com :
Nov 13, 2004: Bought 2 years usage of the domain for $27.95
Nov 2006: Extended subscription through Nov 13, 2007.
Traffic to lfpstreamkeepers.org was redirected to http://home.comcast.net/~lfpstreamkeepers which is a personal website managed by Derek brown. (sk1dad@comcast.net)
Redirection was managed using MyWebHop on http://dyndns.org,
$24.95 for redirection service from Dec 16, 2006 to Dec 16, 2007.
Sept 30, 2007: Considering Hosting Service
I am considering signing lfpstreamkeepers.org with a hosting service: In particular http://www.100megswebhosting.com/
Because I already have another website hosted there and I am comfortble with it. At this time we pay about $55 a year for on going maintenance, so If I can sign up for $5 a month for web hosting at 100 Megs and they can throw in the domain registration I think we will be better off and paying abut the same. There are a number of things I don't like about hosting on the comcast site:- The domain name redirection makes all pages look like the home page to browsers and can confuse things: External links can be loaded under the stramkeepers URL.
- I'd like to divorce the Streamkeepers website from my personal internet connection, just to free up the email address and site for more personal use.
- Uploading to Comcast is a struggle using FTP: I don't seem to have the same timeout issues with 100 Megs.
Derek ...