Dave Burke : Freelance .NET Web Developer specializing in Online Communities

hostmysite.com and the church web site

I have been a customer of hostmysite.com for over two years now, choosing them as my first Windows-based host for a church web site I did for my [ex] church.  The church web site had a secure member area, a complete member photo directory, mailing list support, church photo gallery, online library, visitor tracking, ability for members to update their own records, etc, etc.

I started the site in March 2001 in classic .ASP then encountered .NET beta 2 at TechEd 2001 Atlanta in July of that year.  The site became a marvelous learning tool for .NET, with many many late night coding sessions hammering away at church website features in my efforts to learn .NET.

I won't get into why I closed down the site a couple of months ago and left the church.  All I will say is that if anyone from any denomination comes up to you and asks you if you would like to do a church web site for charity, “don't blink, don't hesitate, don't think.  Just spit in his eye,” as Bing Crosby said in White Christmas (yeah, on the train to Vermont with Danny Kaye and the Haynes Sisters.)

Oh, about hostmysite.com.  They have been consistently fantastic in all areas of service over the last two years.  When I sent an email to them yesterday informing them that the church web site was no more and that I regrettably wanted to cancel my account, they emailed (and phoned!) asking me if I knew that I was paid until April 2004 and that I could change my site domain names for free?  I never heard of that.  I know my domain's DNS is hosted by hostmysite.com as well, so that makes it easier to do, of course.  But I thought that was a smart, customer-focused policy.  Another reason I like hostmysite.com. 

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Posted on 11/13/2003 7:16:00 PM by Dave Burke
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