My website is up for renewal.

This is what it is going to cost me for 2 years at Go-Daddy.com:

$120.76 Hosting - Shared - Economy - Linux - Renewal - 2 years
$23.24 Domain F-BODYSPORT.COM

$143 total
$114.47 with 20% off

Are there better deals out there? I'm not even close to being savy at making a website so it has to be user friendly. I can't complain about Go-daddy's service, if I couldn't figure something out I called, talked to an actual human that seemed to be American and I got what I needed taken care of.

When I first signed up ~4 years ago I remember the prices being half that. Now that I took the time to make the site etc I have a feeling the are bending me over. Are there other options out there for a dummy like me?

That's roughly half what I pay at Dreamhost. http://www.dreamhost.com/ But that includes stuff you probably don't need, like unlimited bandwidth, unlimited storage, unlimited email accounts, unlimited subdomains, etc. It is a lot more complicated than something like Godaddy, but still pretty easy.

If you can live without your own domain name, there's gotta be free sites that would offer a similar amount of storage and bandwidth to Godaddy. I don't know any offhand. (Gee, that was helpful of me!)

You might be able to get a free site, then register your domain, and have it forwarded to your free site. Just a thought. It'd probably be slow and loaded with ads, and I have no idea how to do it, but still.

My own site is hosted with totalchoicehosting - You could take a look and see how they compare? I pay around $45 a year.

@$4/month it looks like I'm not getting a bad deal. The other places I'm seeing are $4-9/mo.

I have lawmotorsports.net and lawmotorsports.com both registered and hosted at 1and1.com and it costs me $80/year.

I get a HUGE amount of on-line storage, bandwidth and e-mail addresses.

I have several sites hosted by www.anhosting.com. Recommend them whenever I get the chance. Don't know about Linux, though. Love the live chat support & cPanel.

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# 6250 GB Bandwidth
# Host up to 20 Domain Names
# Unlimited MySQL dbs
# SSH Included
# Softaculous Instant Application Installer
# Unlimited FTP Accounts
# Unlimited Subdomains
# Unlimited E-mail Addresses
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My .02 is to check out lunarpages. I have them and the very few times I've had a problem I got an ENGLISH speaking person on the phone quickly and problems solved fast. They were stupid cheap and great capacities also.

Good luck,

Costas
cars and such...

I used to use 1and1 a few years ago and was happy until I had to cancel. It was a nightmare-do a google search. Even after following their overly complex procedures at the time they kept billing my card. I had to complain to the BBB and get a new card.