Re: earth to Carel Struycken

Hi Peter

On Jan 22, 2008, at 11:20 AM, Peter Sale wrote:

> 1. I do not understand why, if you register most of your domains  
> through GoDaddy, you do not wish to also purchase hosting from
> them? What is the connection between domain registration and hosting?
GoDaddy in the past has gotten caught doing some really shady things  
when you search for domains like holding it up for a higher price,  
saying it's registered then offering it to you for way more money.  
Network Solutions just got caught doing this recently. I had heard  
rumblings of Godaddy doing this in the past, don't know about now.  
Also if you become dissatisfied and try to change hosts they can do  
some funny things to you and make the transfer very difficult, I have  
had this happen once so never again!
>
> 2. Will I see better download performance with my slideshows and/or  
> my VR images (www.petersVRProperties.com, if I host with
> Bluehost or DreamHost?
If you have a lot of visitors, say more than 100/day, then yes you  
will see better performance. I have had some of my VRs viewed by many  
1000's per day for periods in the recent past and choked the server  
on another host. Nothing lately since I have had a ton of other stuff  
going on.
>
> 3. Can you please list one or more of your sites that is hosted on  
> either BlueHost or DreamHost so that I can "see" what you're
> referring to? Will a site visitor "see" the difference?
Right now I have several sites on Dreamhost, here is the 2007 IVRPA  
Conference Video site.

http://cfish-media.com/conference_a.html

There are some interesting videos you can purchase and download, as  
well as DVDs. Dreamhost also has a service set up so you can market  
and sell file downloads which I researched for a month or so and  
could not find another service like it. So far this has worked very  
well! There is a session on VRs in Real Estate that may be of interest.

>
> _
> Best Regards,
> Peter Sale
>

Cheers
Robert C. Fisher
VR Photography/Cinematography