Mac Friendly Web Hosts?

I am having the same problem either not enough or way to much money and still not enough. If you ever find anything could you please let me know. By the way do you know that a .Mac account from Apple can provide 1 to 2GB's of hosting.

Why not be your own web-host. Any mac can do it. (running OS X)

How much traffic do you expect?
Do you need shopping cart capabilities?

If you write your own HTML all ISP's I know let you have webspace and FTP upload for website work. Or use your ISP web space top redirect into your own mac at home then upload nothing just save files in your HD>library>webserver>documents folder turn on port 80 in your services pane and boom you've got a website.

Simple right? It really is just holler if you need more info. BTW you don't need Server to do this.

Also.... It looked like ATT.net was a webbased builder and didnt care what platform you were on. I didn't use it to build pages...so I my be wrong.

I have had good Mac support from both ATT and Bellsouth too.

Someone has to make rudimentary web design software. Check here: http://guide.apple.com/uscategories/webpublishing.lasso

Make sure the software supports FTP upload. (to get it to your ISP)

Hi Frank-
Mr Foto is right. I had the same dilemma about 4 yesrs ago. I did the following;
1)- Got an inexpensive book on HTML- Not a steep learning curve.
2-) Picked up DreamWeaver from the Apple Store for Education-$99
3)- Started reading the Apache Manual located in /Library/WebSever/Documents (I think). Also picked up Apache, The Manual from O'Reilly.

Dreamweaver is pretty intuitive and lets you easily create all kinds of web services. Learning HTML lets you easily "tweak" pages. The forums and Google are your friends on this stuff. But your Mac will happily serve web pages 24/7.

The only other thing you should have is a broadband connection. Once you get up to speed on HTML and Dreamweaver, start looking into Flash, CSS and XML. Not absolutely necessary at this point, but it seems to be the future in web design.

One other thing I have seen many companies advertise a one time fee for web site design. Typically 150 bucks. I think once HTML is written any web building program can import it and that would let you update/modify without building the whole thing.

We do kinda need to know how kinky a web site you need. Cause just a few pages of services rendered and address and contact...... I wouldn't bother the the Apache book. LOL

We are a Mac hosting site. We have been inbusiness since 1995. We currently run on a pair of Xserves. Dual G5s. Our team can create or just host your site if you wish. We have our servers located in a very large Server facility. Besides the standard OSX server Apps we also run Blue Dragon (cold fusion server) which we assisted New Atlanta in bringing to the Macintosh platform.
Our rates have been the same for 10 years. $25 per month to host a site.
Call me if you wish to talk and see if we can be of service.
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Dual G5 Xserve

Thank you for the info!

hi there...i "bought" by domain names (2) from network solutions. I don't get the idea that they are very familiar with us mac 'types' and I'm wondering if it matters where I got the acutal domain names.
Here is the actual bulk of the email...I use macs because I am NOT A PC PERSON!!! and i don't really want to build my own site or do my own logo...can you help me out here. I don't heve know what it reasonable...but what I do know is that once I'm up and running I'm going to need a system that processes credit cards and, perhaps, paypal. Any information would be helpful. I'm not in any hurry...I paid the first year so now ai just want to do it right. Please feel free to email me privately at DianaCoats@aol.com
I know, I know...I'll change to .Mac when I get the g5 this spring.
Thanks,
diana

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Not sure about the web design tools and how all that works (When I convince my boss to become a hosting provider I'll look into it) BUT... You don't specifically need a "Mac hosting company" to host a website... Any web hosting company can host a website for anyone. that's the beauty of html, css, php, etc. etc. etc. they are platform independent. Now wether there exact features/cost works for you is a different story.


That being said... Since most mac users are friendlier.. I would definitely go with one of them 🙂

Hi Tealfrank,
I have just found a terrific host for Mac users. It's called, conveniently, macwebsitebuilder.com. It's not the cheapest, but it has everything. E-commerce, multimedia, tons of templates. The design process is simple an they explain everything really well. There's a 10 day free trial, so you can give it a whirl. I just made 5 pages in an hour. Let me know how you like it.

Liz Merry