Microsoft Office Live Hosting - How badly do I need to move?

Currently, my website (blueinkalchemy.com) is hosted by Microsoft's Office Live service. The upside is, the hosting is free. On the other hand, the site must be coded in ASP, any database solutions need to be tied to Micro$oft, and I don't have a great deal of space. I was told I need to call Microsoft in order to get my domain moved, and that move might cost me money I don't have. However, I'm not sure if a move is necessary. I get the impression that PhP is more flexible than ASP, especially when MySQL is added to the mix, but considering what I mostly want to do is establish a web presence for my writing, ASP might be adequate. I wouldn't mind having people register for the site in order to protect my intellectual property and send people e-mail updates if they wish. What have your experiences been with ASP, PhP or both? What would you recommend?

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You know I don't think you should move at all, for now, there's got to be someway to make your own site hereand keep your old site. Try these ideas: just take out a letter of your old sites name, like (blueinkalchmy.com) add another letter or character like (blueinkalchemyo.com or blueinkalchemy-.com), or change a letter in the name (blueinkalchemi.com).

On the being more flexible part, I don't really know, because this is my first post in earning credits to get a site. However, from what I understand, is that this site seems to be better, but again trying to earn enough to get a site.

Good luck with your site!

Hope this helped.

 

 

 

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I think it did, yes. What I might due is use the established domain as a "front page", and put in links to PhP pages hosted here, such as forums and places for people to log in and comment. I'm also working on earning enough credits to get my first myCent... I'm up to 56.something at the moment.

Thanks for your input!

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Credits? They are no more here. If you want to see your mycents register at http://xistosupport.com/billing with the same email address you used to register here. Then wait for 4 to 5 hours to see your myCents......If you already did so, just ignore this.

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Dond & done, xpress, thanks so much.

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I had my first domain with Microsoft Office Live Hosting. I kept running into the same problems mentioned above. Nothing was customizable. The WYSIWYG was a real pain. So I quit the service. They released the domain name to me. It was registured with Melborneit. Well when it came time to renew the name at Melborneit they wanted to charge me $30.00 a year to keep it registered. I recently transferred it to go daddy and am now only paying $9.99 a year. I hosted the name with 000webhost for about a year until I realized that they were pushing porn and other non relevant ads on my customers. Then I tried another post for hosting company that was run by a bunch of immature moderators .That's when I found Trap17. I haven't earned my hosting here yet, but am looking forward to a lasting relationship with you guys. as far as ASP vs. PHP and SQL goes I don't know enough to voice an educated opinion. But I sure do love the flexibility that cpanel offers.

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I must say this is 6th person i'm seeing that moving from Microsoft Office live hosting. I think in the act of promoting Microsoft products and standards they're restricting users on so many things like must be ASP/MS-SQL db etc). I don't understand why they oppose open standards even though they accepted open standards indirectly in their CLR(.NET environment).

I'm skeptical about Microsoft's Business moves. As Hosting Code and project on Codeplex again restricts you to host code related to windows environment, that again don't make sense. anyway, for developers sourceforge/googlecode is better option to host their files and website together.

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