Sorry for bothering everyone at WA again, but I have something I would like your opinion about.
After talking with WA I think it's better to move all of my images to an excl
Hey Educard, I have been researching about various hosting companies too. It seems like some folks on WA don't like to talk about this topic since WA also provides hosting. It's important to consider all options. As ShirleyLB mentioned seems like several people like the Amazon hosting. Also take a look at this blog post. Day 8: Choose Your Web Hosting Wisely! This guys seems very successful but does not seem like an active WA member. You may contact him to see if he has any input. If you read his blog posts on WA his contact info is provided.
It's been hard to find a good hosting option there are so many fake reviews. But I have been reading this site, someone on WA provided me the info. http://www.webhostingbest10.com/
Good luck. I hope to better understand all the hosting options also.
Thanks for the feedback bj21!
I'm starting to think that it might be in my interest to find some unlimited website hosting plan and moving everything over there, site and images.
Have you found some interesting options from what you have read so far on the subject?
Once again, thanks for the help! :)
At the moment, I am debating between Ehost or Siteground. If you are super tech savvy I have been reading some okay reviews about WPEngine (but it's more expensive). Trying to do more due diligence. Personally I have used godaddy and bluehost and can't recommend them not enough good support or security.
You know we are smart and intelligent people. I think we always want to know our options. It was hard when I asked WA people and they simply say why would you consider another hosting company. But I want to know my options before I put a lot of work into a site.
So a bit more reading for me but I do need to make a decision soon. Hopefully this week.
http://www.whoishostingthis.com/hosting-reviews/
Yes there are some good plans that offer unlimited. That should be a non agrument in this day in age.
I agree, you should consider all your options before making a decision.
I think I'm going to give Amazon S3 a try and move all my images there for now. Then at a later point I might even move the site itself outside of WA, who knows...
I hope you can reach your decision soon. Wishing you good luck!
Thanks for all the help! :)
Hi, EduCard, I am not sure why you have to have a host for all you images unless you have a huge amount to be shown on your site, do you try amazon ?
Let's say most of those 4Gb of disk space are images and WA has been sending me tickets about that lately.
Since my site is a gaming news site, there are a lot of new screenshots of games coming out every week, you see the problem?
Are you speaking of Amazon S3 by any chance?
Never tried it, but I would prefer a service with fixed prices since I have no idea how much I would be paying monthly with a service like that...
Thanks for answering! :)
Yes it's Amazon S3 is a well known service. There are tons of info so that should help you make a decision.
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Image hosting service suggestions ideas? maybe site hosting?
Sorry for bothering everyone at WA again, but I have something I would like your opinion about.
After talking with WA I think it's better to move all of my images to an excl
Hi Eduardo,
I would go with Amazon CloudFront: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront
This way you can store all your images there and create a subdomain that houses all the images.
You only pay for the bandwidth used to access the images. i.e. It's super cost effective. My guess is that it would cost you less than $4 a month.
Thanks for answering. :)
I didn't quite get that part where you say I would create a sudomain to host all my images.
Wouldn't I need to move my entire domain there?
What are you suggesting, I'm missing something, I think!? o.0'
That does seem very cost effective!
Hi Eduardo,
Here's a doc to answer:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/CNAMEs.html
Basically the place where your images are stored on Amazon cloudfront can be 'redirect' as a subdomain.
So, your image on Amazon Cloudfront:
http://d111111abcdef8.cloudfront.net/images/image.jpg
Can end up being:
http://images.yourdomain.com/images/image.jpg
This is an advanced strategy which I won't go into here, but there are a ton of great tutorials on how to do this with Amazon Cloudfront.
Oh, I see! That sounds nice! o.0'
I will have to spend tomorrow looking into this and setting things straight again, I guess...
Thanks for all the help and info, it really saved me! ^_^'
I just checked, and we can now do this on WA. Just need to open a SiteSupport ticket. (I know this post is 2 years old, but I'm commenting here for people searching. Like I just was!)
Thanks a lot for this great advice, btw.
Thanks for sharing that! :D
Back then they still didn't have that type of options available, and I didn't notice when it did became available, so I guess I will hit them up about it sometime soon.
Hey Educard, I have been researching about various hosting companies too. It seems like some folks on WA don't like to talk about this topic since WA also provides hosting. It's important to consider all options. As ShirleyLB mentioned seems like several people like the Amazon hosting. Also take a look at this blog post. Day 8: Choose Your Web Hosting Wisely! This guys seems very successful but does not seem like an active WA member. You may contact him to see if he has any input. If you read his blog posts on WA his contact info is provided.
It's been hard to find a good hosting option there are so many fake reviews. But I have been reading this site, someone on WA provided me the info. http://www.webhostingbest10.com/
Good luck. I hope to better understand all the hosting options also.
Thanks for the feedback bj21!
I'm starting to think that it might be in my interest to find some unlimited website hosting plan and moving everything over there, site and images.
Have you found some interesting options from what you have read so far on the subject?
Once again, thanks for the help! :)
At the moment, I am debating between Ehost or Siteground. If you are super tech savvy I have been reading some okay reviews about WPEngine (but it's more expensive). Trying to do more due diligence. Personally I have used godaddy and bluehost and can't recommend them not enough good support or security.
You know we are smart and intelligent people. I think we always want to know our options. It was hard when I asked WA people and they simply say why would you consider another hosting company. But I want to know my options before I put a lot of work into a site.
So a bit more reading for me but I do need to make a decision soon. Hopefully this week.
http://www.whoishostingthis.com/hosting-reviews/
Yes there are some good plans that offer unlimited. That should be a non agrument in this day in age.
I agree, you should consider all your options before making a decision.
I think I'm going to give Amazon S3 a try and move all my images there for now. Then at a later point I might even move the site itself outside of WA, who knows...
I hope you can reach your decision soon. Wishing you good luck!
Thanks for all the help! :)
Hi, EduCard, I am not sure why you have to have a host for all you images unless you have a huge amount to be shown on your site, do you try amazon ?
Let's say most of those 4Gb of disk space are images and WA has been sending me tickets about that lately.
Since my site is a gaming news site, there are a lot of new screenshots of games coming out every week, you see the problem?
Are you speaking of Amazon S3 by any chance?
Never tried it, but I would prefer a service with fixed prices since I have no idea how much I would be paying monthly with a service like that...
Thanks for answering! :)
Yes it's Amazon S3 is a well known service. There are tons of info so that should help you make a decision.
See more comments
Hi WA community!
Today I wanted to expose a problem I have been having with nintendokusou.com and ask for you opinion and help if possible. Maybe with your experience I can
I considered that, but for now I think I'm going to move all my images to Amazon S3 and go with that. Maybe at a later time I will move the whole site somewhere else, who knows, we will see.
Thanks for answering.
Hey, so not sure how you will solve this problem, your site looks amazing by the way.. would you put up a WA banner there... you do have high quality pictures in there and your are always going to run into space issues with what you are doing because of the amount of photos you are including, unless you are going to pay for the storage. Then you run into your catch 22, I would consider reducing the amount of Graphic art you are including. Hope this helps a little.
Yeah, I have no other option but paying for storage of the images somewhere, but I don't know of a good service that will work for what I need. After all it's a news site, so it will only keep growing...
I defenitely want to promote WA in there once I have time to finish the lessons, but right now keeping the site alive is more important so I don't lose the few readers I already have... (and I have been a little busy with school nowadays.)
If you know of a good place / service to host files / images that has a big or unlimited storage space plan, that would help a lot!?
Thanks for answering. :)
I dont know much about all this, but couldn't you unload the images you have in your library and on your posts from Nintendo and reload them after you resized to a smaller format. Then your site wont be so bloated.
Just a suggestion.
Hope this helps
Thanks for answering.
I already upload them in the smallest formats possible.
The problem is that I upload a lot every week, and it will just keep growing, and from what I get, WA just doesn't want to have them on their servers or something.
I can't even log in into the site right now, so I can't even copy the images back...
Maybe the problem is that you are over doing it. You should not be monopolizing your website, with just trying to sale stuff. You need to be writing content without selling anything as well, so you can gain trust with people, so they will want to buy from you. If your website is full of only posts of selling something, then your potential customers will not believe that you really care about the products, that you are recommending.
I believe you should only have 30 to 50 items at a time on your website, with great content and research on each item. Then replace them as you figure out which ones are not selling. Then you would have products rotating, if you are going to have that many items you want to sell.
The main thing is to realize that quality not quantity make alot of great sales. It also will add trust to you your website.
Maybe you could talk to tech support about helping you only keep the items that you are getting the most sales from now and getting rid of the rest until you figure out something better for you and WA.
Just my opinion.
I hope everything works out for you.
Kinda Bush
Ok, you didn't even look at the site, did you?
Or read above, did you?
I said I'm not even monetizing the site yet! Since March, I have been trying to build a following and haven't even put a single advertisemente in there! Didn't have much time for it either.
I'm trying to build a Nintendo News and Fan Site. I know perfectly that I can't go trying to sell things blindly to people. Gamers aren't stupid, or most aren't at least.
That's not the problem anyways... this is a hosting space problem with images.
Thanks for worrying though.
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Can't login, site is too "bloated" and wa won't help me!?
Hi WA community!
Today I wanted to expose a problem I have been having with nintendokusou.com and ask for you opinion and help if possible. Maybe with your experience I can
I considered that, but for now I think I'm going to move all my images to Amazon S3 and go with that. Maybe at a later time I will move the whole site somewhere else, who knows, we will see.
Thanks for answering.
Hey, so not sure how you will solve this problem, your site looks amazing by the way.. would you put up a WA banner there... you do have high quality pictures in there and your are always going to run into space issues with what you are doing because of the amount of photos you are including, unless you are going to pay for the storage. Then you run into your catch 22, I would consider reducing the amount of Graphic art you are including. Hope this helps a little.
Yeah, I have no other option but paying for storage of the images somewhere, but I don't know of a good service that will work for what I need. After all it's a news site, so it will only keep growing...
I defenitely want to promote WA in there once I have time to finish the lessons, but right now keeping the site alive is more important so I don't lose the few readers I already have... (and I have been a little busy with school nowadays.)
If you know of a good place / service to host files / images that has a big or unlimited storage space plan, that would help a lot!?
Thanks for answering. :)
I dont know much about all this, but couldn't you unload the images you have in your library and on your posts from Nintendo and reload them after you resized to a smaller format. Then your site wont be so bloated.
Just a suggestion.
Hope this helps
Thanks for answering.
I already upload them in the smallest formats possible.
The problem is that I upload a lot every week, and it will just keep growing, and from what I get, WA just doesn't want to have them on their servers or something.
I can't even log in into the site right now, so I can't even copy the images back...
Maybe the problem is that you are over doing it. You should not be monopolizing your website, with just trying to sale stuff. You need to be writing content without selling anything as well, so you can gain trust with people, so they will want to buy from you. If your website is full of only posts of selling something, then your potential customers will not believe that you really care about the products, that you are recommending.
I believe you should only have 30 to 50 items at a time on your website, with great content and research on each item. Then replace them as you figure out which ones are not selling. Then you would have products rotating, if you are going to have that many items you want to sell.
The main thing is to realize that quality not quantity make alot of great sales. It also will add trust to you your website.
Maybe you could talk to tech support about helping you only keep the items that you are getting the most sales from now and getting rid of the rest until you figure out something better for you and WA.
Just my opinion.
I hope everything works out for you.
Kinda Bush
Ok, you didn't even look at the site, did you?
Or read above, did you?
I said I'm not even monetizing the site yet! Since March, I have been trying to build a following and haven't even put a single advertisemente in there! Didn't have much time for it either.
I'm trying to build a Nintendo News and Fan Site. I know perfectly that I can't go trying to sell things blindly to people. Gamers aren't stupid, or most aren't at least.
That's not the problem anyways... this is a hosting space problem with images.
Thanks for worrying though.
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Hi everyone,
I have been trying to create an automatic backup job for my site, following these tutorials:
Are either of the "Get auth code" buttons active? I'm thinking that you may just need to get the code to activate your access.
[added]
welshy added this comment to his training tutorial. It's pretty far down in the comments so you might have missed it:
"I just tested the plugin on a test site, when you get to the “To:DropBox” tab/options.
If you already have an account, do not click create account, simply select either “Get Dropbox App auth code” or “Get full Dropbox auth code”.
Copy the auth code you get after granting access and paste into the field. Then scroll down and hit Save. It should then say Success Authenticated!"
Thank you very much Bob!
I was confused and thought the fields were used to specify folder destinations... only now did I understand I had to paste the code I got there! That interface sure is confusing, ha ha!
Well, it's done now and it works wonders.
Once again, thank you for your time and precious help!
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Need help to backup site, using backupwpup and dropbox!?
Hi everyone,
I have been trying to create an automatic backup job for my site, following these tutorials:
Are either of the "Get auth code" buttons active? I'm thinking that you may just need to get the code to activate your access.
[added]
welshy added this comment to his training tutorial. It's pretty far down in the comments so you might have missed it:
"I just tested the plugin on a test site, when you get to the “To:DropBox” tab/options.
If you already have an account, do not click create account, simply select either “Get Dropbox App auth code” or “Get full Dropbox auth code”.
Copy the auth code you get after granting access and paste into the field. Then scroll down and hit Save. It should then say Success Authenticated!"
Thank you very much Bob!
I was confused and thought the fields were used to specify folder destinations... only now did I understand I had to paste the code I got there! That interface sure is confusing, ha ha!
Well, it's done now and it works wonders.
Once again, thank you for your time and precious help!
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Hi everyone,
so, before starting to make my website I have been looking for some info regarding taxes and alike for the last two weeks. I tried contacting our tax department her
Thanks for the tip!
I recently found a newspaper about this topic and I'm going to try and see if they can explain it to me.
If they can't, I guess I will just get started and do what you said when the money starts to roll in.
Hello,
normally your money would be paid into a PayPal account and you can then transfer it to your local bank account once that money is in your bank account you can transfer it to your bank and that is how you would pay yourself a salary and pay the tax office
Thanks for answering!
I get that process but what I want to know is how do I pay my taxes to the tax office, is it automatic or do I have to do something?
That's why I sent them a message, but I'm starting to think they won't answer... it's been two weeks after all.
In Spain you have to fill in an earnings form a declaration form every year at the end of the tax year. You need to speak to your bank manager again and ask him to recommend someone local to be your fiscal representative at least for your first year.
Yeah, guess I will have to look for someone to help me with this stuff...
Thanks for all the help anyways!
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Questions about taxes and alike, please help me understand!?
Hi everyone,
so, before starting to make my website I have been looking for some info regarding taxes and alike for the last two weeks. I tried contacting our tax department her
Thanks for the tip!
I recently found a newspaper about this topic and I'm going to try and see if they can explain it to me.
If they can't, I guess I will just get started and do what you said when the money starts to roll in.
Hello,
normally your money would be paid into a PayPal account and you can then transfer it to your local bank account once that money is in your bank account you can transfer it to your bank and that is how you would pay yourself a salary and pay the tax office
Thanks for answering!
I get that process but what I want to know is how do I pay my taxes to the tax office, is it automatic or do I have to do something?
That's why I sent them a message, but I'm starting to think they won't answer... it's been two weeks after all.
In Spain you have to fill in an earnings form a declaration form every year at the end of the tax year. You need to speak to your bank manager again and ask him to recommend someone local to be your fiscal representative at least for your first year.
Yeah, guess I will have to look for someone to help me with this stuff...
Thanks for all the help anyways!
See more comments
Hi Eduardo,
I would go with Amazon CloudFront: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront
This way you can store all your images there and create a subdomain that houses all the images.
You only pay for the bandwidth used to access the images. i.e. It's super cost effective. My guess is that it would cost you less than $4 a month.
Thanks for answering. :)
I didn't quite get that part where you say I would create a sudomain to host all my images.
Wouldn't I need to move my entire domain there?
What are you suggesting, I'm missing something, I think!? o.0'
That does seem very cost effective!
Hi Eduardo,
Here's a doc to answer:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/CNAMEs.html
Basically the place where your images are stored on Amazon cloudfront can be 'redirect' as a subdomain.
So, your image on Amazon Cloudfront:
http://d111111abcdef8.cloudfront.net/images/image.jpg
Can end up being:
http://images.yourdomain.com/images/image.jpg
This is an advanced strategy which I won't go into here, but there are a ton of great tutorials on how to do this with Amazon Cloudfront.
Oh, I see! That sounds nice! o.0'
I will have to spend tomorrow looking into this and setting things straight again, I guess...
Thanks for all the help and info, it really saved me! ^_^'
I just checked, and we can now do this on WA. Just need to open a SiteSupport ticket. (I know this post is 2 years old, but I'm commenting here for people searching. Like I just was!)
Thanks a lot for this great advice, btw.
Thanks for sharing that! :D
Back then they still didn't have that type of options available, and I didn't notice when it did became available, so I guess I will hit them up about it sometime soon.