• Posted 12/19/2024.
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    I am still waiting on my developer to finish up on the Classifieds Control Panel so I can use it to encourage members into becoming paying members. Google Adsense has become a real burden on the viewing of this site, but honestly it is the ONLY source of income now that keeps it afloat. I tried offering disabling the ads being viewed by paying members, but apparently that is not enough incentive. Quite frankly, Google Adsense has dropped down to where it barely brings in enough daily to match even a single paid member per day. But it still gets the bills paid. But at what cost?

    So even without the classifieds control panel being complete, I believe I am going to have to disable those Google ads completely and likely disable some options here that have been free since going to the new platform. Like classified ad bumping, member name changes, and anything else I can use to encourage this site to be supported by the members instead of the Google Adsense ads.

    But there is risk involved. I will not pay out of pocket for very long during this last ditch experimental effort. If I find that the membership does not want to support this site with memberships, then I cannot support your being able to post your classified ads here for free. No, I am not intending to start charging for your posting ads here. I will just shut the site down and that will be it. I will be done with FaunaClassifieds. I certainly don't need this, and can live the rest of my life just fine without it. If I see that no one else really wants it to survive neither, then so be it. It goes away and you all can just go elsewhere to advertise your animals and merchandise.

    Not sure when this will take place, and I don't intend to give any further warning concerning the disabling of the Google Adsense. Just as there probably won't be any warning if I decide to close down this site. You will just come here and there will be some sort of message that the site is gone, and you have a nice day.

    I have been trying to make a go of this site for a very long time. And quite frankly, I am just tired of trying. I had hoped that enough people would be willing to help me help you all have a free outlet to offer your stuff for sale. But every year I see less and less people coming to this site, much less supporting it financially. That is fine. I tried. I retired the SerpenCo business about 14 years ago, so retiring out of this business completely is not that big if a step for me, nor will it be especially painful to do. When I was in Thailand, I did not check in here for three weeks. I didn't miss it even a little bit. So if you all want it to remain, it will be in your hands. I really don't care either way.

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    Some people have indicated that finding the method to contribute is rather difficult. And I have to admit, that it is not all that obvious. So to help, here is a thread to help as a quide. How to become a contributing member of FaunaClassifieds.

    And for the record, I will be shutting down the Google Adsense ads on January 1, 2025.

Website Hosting for those with their own personal website??

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I was noticing that many of you on this forum have some really nice websites...but where did you go to get your web hosting done? For those of you with your own websites that are a full domain (not some lycos, geocities, etc.), what company did you use to host your domain and website?

I plan on starting up my own website fairly soon and I am considering several places to use as webhosts. I'm debating between godaddy.com, voxdomains.com, directnic.com and a couple of others. I've created my website mainly using MS FrontPage so I need a webhosting service that supports this. Any suggestions?

Just looking for the most reliable and supportive company for my website...please give me suggestions.

Any and all help is greatly appreciated!! Thank you very much and happy holidays to everyone!

Please email me at [email protected] or [email protected]
 
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I have always found ezpublishing.com to be really good. They have decent prices and amazing service and support.
 
I have two domains with godaddy.com and one with web.com. I have thought about "consolidating" all 3 to one provider, but haven't gotten around to it. The only reason they are at 2 places now is because I had the one at web.com and then when I was looking to reserve another domain godaddy was having a sale, so the prices were good. I've actually thought about 1and1.com, which is the one that Ken says he uses.
 
My website is hosted here at fauna. The webhost is where your website actually resides.
The registrar I use for the domain name is godaddy.
You just register the name with the registrar, but to my knowledge they do not offer actual hosting services.
Rich's hosting service is great. I used to be hosted with kingsnake.com until Rich started offering the service. You get no features at all from kingsnake, just the space and FTP access. Here at Fauna though you get more bells and whistles than you know what to do with. A far superior hosting service and a much more powerful set of tools for the website owner.
 
I did everything through Yahoo. I had a geocities site for years and I really got comfortable with their customer service and the "idiot proof" web site builder. I just graduated to a domain and now I pay $11 a month and I get an even better "idiot proof" web site builder :) They also support Frontpage, a program that has me flabbergasted.

I am glad I read this, I never knew there were so many options out there.
 
After I was ripped off, lied to and cheated by a couple herp industry people on hosting I asked Rich Z if he were going to be doing it and at the time he was not. So I found Cedant.com through a friend who builds corporate sites. They are one of the largest hosting/services companies. I pay $60-70 a year for 10 times the capacity that I need. They also give discounts if you pay 2 years in advance. In the past 3 years I have been using their services my site has not gone down, it has never had too much traffic to view and is very easy to access and work on through the control panel they supply. My old site was developed with front page, but I have now done a total revamp of the site with a friend who does it for a living to make it a much nicer looking, professional, smooth functioning site. I will be putting it up in a few days.
 
Thanks to everyone!!!

I appreciate everyone's responses...and I received them so quickly. It's good to see so many choices out there...but now comes the hard part on who to go with?! I guess I'll have to weigh my options on each different site and come up with who has what I need at the best price.

My site is mainly going to be about my educational reptile/amphibian show/exhibit business that I do. (In short...I go to schools, camps, youth groups, events, etc. and present an educational herp show) I will also offer animals for sale on part of the website along with caresheets and other herp info. Just thought I'd let you all know.

Thanks again...and feel free to keep posting ideas, suggestions, etc. on places to go or software to use.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone!!!
 
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