I want to go to Italy for a foreign exchange program.

I personally know about three different people (friends) who offer web hosting services, but I’m not sure about giving them my money because… I hate to say it… they have no reputation, so I’m a little wary. I think I’d rather go with a reputable hosting company. Where can I find affordable web hosting companies that aren’t "fly by night" companies? Thanks in advance.

I want to start an online store and I am on a low budget. I need everything that is mandatory for security and advertising as well as a cart of course. I need the site to be fast to upload merchandise pictures. Looking at many hosts and website design sites has made me confused as to how much I will have to spend monthly eventually. I can learn to manage the site myself thereafter.
Thanks for any input.

I have a new vps (windows server 2003 64bit) but my domain name is hosting on other i want to host the domain name on my VPS account to configure the mail server for my VPS to use that domain name. I need complete help please)

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin admin@whateverdomain.com
DocumentRoot "C:\rootstuff"
ServerName servername.com
</VirtualHost>
that works, but lets say I want a specific subdomain of my domain to forward to another site. How would I do that?
I tried:
<VirtualHost http://whateversite.com/siteiwantforwarded:80>
ServerAdmin admin@whateversite
DocumentRoot "http://thesiteIwanttoforwardto.com/"
ServerName servername.com
</VirtualHost>
but apache won’t start when I do this.

To elaborate, I want people to be able to access my own server at www.mysitename.com but if they go to www.mysitename.com/subdirectory then it will forward them without the use of html redirection and display www.theothersite.com’s page (A virtual host mirror)

What type of operating system should I choose to host my website? Which is better in terms of security, performance, etc.

we are in need of a new sever hosting, for our ISP network across South Africa the one we have is no good and it is in Dallas

I currently have two internet connections on my Linux headless server. One connection is via the NAT on the local eth0. The other is a 3g usb modem.

I cant seem to get the modem connection to work.

$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:22:15:6d:0b:db
inet addr:192.168.1.30 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::222:15ff:fe6d:bdb/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:131158 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:288201 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:4
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:14637827 (14.6 MB) TX bytes:323456314 (323.4 MB)
Interrupt:28

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:134 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:134 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:8008 (8.0 KB) TX bytes:8008 (8.0 KB)

ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
inet addr:115.70.8.147 P-t-P:10.64.64.64 Mask:255.255.255.255
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:103 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:80 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
RX bytes:7002 (7.0 KB) TX bytes:6054 (6.0 KB)

When i force ping to use the interface it still uses 192.168.1.30 for some reason

p$ ping -I ppp0 google.com
PING google.com (66.102.11.104) from 192.168.1.30 ppp0: 56(84) bytes of data.
^C
— google.com ping statistics —
5 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 4002ms

Hi my website taken down by hostgator saying too much traffic for shared hosting now i want to know where should i go now for other shared hosting or VPS or dedicated servers or reseller i have no idea can anyone help me please