I've recently been looking into buying a domain and some web space as well. I know very little about web hosting though. All I want is a small personal website, with addiquit storage and bandwith.
At dreamhost.com (first link posted) they have a nice plan thats 7.95/month (very much in my price range), 800 MB disk space, and 40 GB bandwith, as well as 60 mailboxes. This is a perfect plan for me, except for the 60 mailboxes.
Why in the hell would I need 60 mailboxes? Does this mean 60 e-mail addresses? I need like 2...maybe 3. Is having so many mailboxes costing extra? Would it be significantly cheaper if there was only 5 mailboxes or so, or should I just not worry about that?
Also (please excuse my stupidity if it sounds so), with a plan/host like that, will I be able to use some simple FTP software like SmartFTP to upload my files? Or is an "FTP server" something completely differant?
I'm also confused about if I get a
www.yourname.com domain? Will it STAY like that, or will it redirect me to some much longer name?