Web Hosting for the English Language Training Community

Developing Teachers.com · Post by **Developing Teachers.com** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 3:37 pm

Thought I would drop a post about the web hosting that we have started over at Developing Teachers.com - here's what we're offering:

All plans come with cPanel!

Bronze: 50mb of space, 2gb of bandwidth/month, 5 email accounts. 2 MySQL databases, 1 mailing list, 1 ftp account - $8/month

Silver: 100mb of space, 3gb of bandwidth/month, 10 email accounts, 5 MySQL databases, 3 mailing lists, 3 ftp accounts - $12/month

Gold: 150mb of space, 5gb of bandwidth/month, 15 email accounts, 8 MySQL databases, 5 mailing lists, 5 ftp accounts - $15/month

Also:
Online Course Support: Moodle installation, 300mb of space, 1gb of bandwidth/month - $12/month

Pay for the year to get two months free & your bandwidth doubled!

So if you're starting a website or thinking of changing hosts check us out at:
http://www.developinglearners.com/onlin ... osting.htm

Thanks

Alistair
Developing Teachers.com

lightninghosts · Post by **lightninghosts** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 7:39 pm

Hello,

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shores · Post by **shores** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 12:39 pm

Before beginning I'd like to say I'm not connected to Developing Teachers in the first post above. I have used the site many times in my teaching & have never paid a penny for anything. I know that they try to cover costs with extra services they offer, in this case the web hosting.

When I came across the second post I thought it unfair to let it go without registering & responding.

1. Why present an offer by trying to trash another offer? Why not just make a new post & let your offer stand on its own? This appears to be a very unprofessional approach. So if you want an unprofessional hosting service you know where to go....

2. The actual offer in the second post is silly. If you offered unlimited space & unlimited bandwidth amongst serious hosting companies you would be laughed out of the room. If you need to verify this, just go to SitePoint.com & then to their web hosting forum the check this out.
http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/forumdi ... ne=-1&f=96
Make a posting to see what they have to say.
The second post looks like someone has got a cheap reseller account together with an off the peg template & hasn't thought much before posting. .

The offer by Developing Teachers is more than reasonable by anybody's judgement - I know quite a bit about web hosting. They are in the ESL/ELT business & are trying to cater for this specialised market. Seems fair enough - I know who I would go with.

Again, I'm not with Developing Teachers but have benefitted through the last few years with my teaching. Just giving something back.
Seems there's another post like this so I'll put this again there.

lightninghosts · Post by **lightninghosts** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 5:03 pm

Hi shores, or should i say Developing teacher? You only joined the forum today according to the forums records?

"I have used the site many times in my teaching & have never paid a penny for anything." Posts = 2, whats going on there?

And I do offer unlimited space and bandwidth and my reseller account is far from cheap, why would other hosting customers laugh at us? Our TOS is viewable content only so I doubt somebody would upload 200GBs worth of HTML files?

You forget something, we are professional web designers so thats why our website looks like a template, its because we made it a template.

shores · Post by **shores** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 5:23 pm

Please read the post properly - 'I have used using the site many times' refers to Developing Teachers. Ho hum...

Why would professional web designers need to make their website a 'template'......surely you would be professional enough to want to make it unique, memorable & attractive to visitors?

lightninghosts · Post by **lightninghosts** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 5:34 pm

Well my friend you sound a bit of a n00b so ill tell you. When developing professional web sites you need to keep in mind "consistancy", this means that the web site must look the same else it looks awful so what you do is your make whats called a "Master Page" and then pages use this master page as a template. So I can add meta tag information on each page rather then one and I can copy the master design to all my pages.

shores · Post by **shores** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 5:50 pm

Ah that's different - a template to use throughout the site. I was referring to a template that others can use on their site - off the peg designs.

As you are into a bit of dialogue, what do you think of the first objection to your posting in the first place - to come in & try to trash someone else in an effort to gain attention? Not a very pleasant way to do business, no?

BTW, attention to spelling & punctuation - you're in the right place.

lightninghosts · Post by **lightninghosts** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 6:14 pm

Whos been naughty? You have been clicking your google advertisements haven't you? You have been banned from google that is not very professional is it?

shores · Post by **shores** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 6:46 pm

What are you talking about? I haven't got a website.