New to all this. Why pick a win2k server over unix? I'm not doing anything fancy (yet?!) - just using front page 2002 to set up a personal page for image gallery and (legit!) AVI sharing.

Any recommendations for a host with my application in mind - need lots of disk space, probably not too much bandwidth - interested in quality service at a reasonable price, not a dead-end host.

The ReadyHosts of the world seem the easy choice until you poke around DEJA or here - then the illusion seems to unravel... Currently on my ever-changing list:

Aletia
Terra-Byte
F5Hosting
Ventures Online
QWK.NET
Hosting Matters
Alentus

Most of these are unix-based - hence the first question. I'm looking at packages in the 200+ mb range, most are coming in at $200-250 for a year...

I'd appreciate very much any thoughts you might share to help me through this rather bewildering experience.

I think Linux/Unix is more stable and secure than a Win Server.
Do you allready have infos about Sun Cobalt RaQ Servers? They're Linux based with Apache Webserver. Using it with Frontpage is easy and - I think - comfortable.
More Infos: http://www.cobalt.com

Originally posted by swissfreak
I think Linux/Unix is more stable and secure than a Win Server.
Sorry, I cant second this. I have now since almost one year an account at Central Information Services (http://www.centralinfo.net) and there was no noticeable downtime at all.

Alexander

Originally posted by DannO
New to all this. Why pick a win2k server over unix? I'm not doing anything fancy (yet?!) - just using front page 2002 to set up a personal page for image gallery and (legit!) AVI sharing.

I think for that you could pick either win2k or linux really, though here you'll probably find more linux people. Besides that, I recently converted some of my avi's to windows media and the file sizes are much better and they seem to stream from the web without a streaming server, so you might want to convert them. Another thread topic, I know...