[TR] internet site for photos

[KingsCreekTrees at aol.com]

Hi all; Tim again here, unfortunately.
 
Following Larry's enquiry, you may remember that I promised to have a word  
with a techno-geek bloke in our local Triumph club, about setting up our 
own  listers website. His response is a bit long and, to be honest, I don't  
understand half of it because it doesn't involve big bits of metal going up 
and  down/round and round. However, here it is for what it's worth:
 
Hi Tim,

If one of the members is able to host the site on a PC at  their home
(always on, always on the internet, etc) then the hosting costs go  to
zero and the only charges would be for the domain name - those are  cheap
- depending on the type of domain (.ca, .com, .net,  etc).

Performance in this scenario can be variable as most people have a  much
larger "pipe" for downloading information to their home than to  upload
from their home, so it would mean that people accessing the site  might
find it slow.  Still it works.  I've hosted sites for years -  currently
the British Car Day site is still hosted on a machine in my home -  but
I'll be moving it to an externally hosted one this year.

If you  want to look at external hosting, there are some very inexpensive
packages  out there that do a decent job and provide near 100% available
connections,  and you can probably find things as low as $10-15 month
that would do the  trick for you guys.

Glad to help out with site design if you want it, but  leave that with
you to think about for another  day.

Regards,

Don

Tim Dyer,  Kings Creek Trees and Ornamentals
427 Kings Creek Road, RR3
Ashton, ON K0A  1B0
Canada
Phone/fax: 613 253 4126 Website: _www.kingscreektrees.com_ 
(http://www.kingscreektrees.com/) 

Proud  member of Landscape Ontario (the Ontario association for 
horticulture  professionals), the Canadian Nursery and Landscape Association, the 
Ottawa  Botanical Garden Society, the Carleton Place Horticultural Society and 
the  Christmas Tree Farmers of Ontario