Web Hosting & Lightroom's Web Module

[Jabulani Jonny]

Hey guys & gals,
I'm curious as to who you're using for web-hosting for photo blogs. I had a regular blog for years and have let it die, intentionally. However, I'd like to start a photo blog and use Lightroom's Web module to design and upload. I'm fairly familiar with GoDaddy, but didn't know if there were some other web-hosting, domain registration services out there that I should look at that's both inexpensive and allows for ftp uploads of whatever Lightroom spits out. Does that make sense?

As far as I can tell, you can design everything in Lightroom, then export it as a package that can be ftp'd to your web-hosting server. It seems that most of the popular blogging sites, eg. Typepad, Blogger, etc. only allow use of their templates unless you pay higher monthly fees. I'm trying to keep it < $5/month.

Thoughts? Thx!

[Free]

G'day mate,

About 5 or 6 years ago, I used www.angelfire.lycos.com to put a site up for nothing using my own designed page. I'm not 100% sure that you can still use your own templates any more and I wouldn't think you can ftp into it, but even if you have to manually upload through the Angelfire web gui, it'll keep your prices down to $0. Downside is advertisments on your site

As to pro hosting... Godaddy is one of the cheapest, if you pay a year at time it's going to come out at about $5 a month. I would recommend going down this path as you'll have much more controll of your site, you wont have dodgey advertisments all over the place (unless you want them, but then you get the money from them) and you'll have your own domain name!

Then if you want to get right into it you can set up a wordpress blog or something similar and take over the world - Or what ever it is people do with Blogs.

Cheers
Free

[sk66]

You don't actually have to have your photos "in the blog"....Just create a link "in the blog" to the html pages Lightroom creates for you. The blog will use it's template and the gallery will use the lightroom template...

But I would also guess it would be pretty easy to pull the code from the lightroom created html page and insert that in the correct place within the blog.....

[Jabulani Jonny]

Originally Posted by sk66

You don't actually have to have your photos "in the blog"....Just create a link "in the blog" to the html pages Lightroom creates for you. The blog will use it's template and the gallery will use the lightroom template...

But I would also guess it would be pretty easy to pull the code from the lightroom created html page and insert that in the correct place within the blog.....

I'll have to chew on that one a bit.

[Free]

Originally Posted by sk66

You don't actually have to have your photos "in the blog"....Just create a link "in the blog" to the html pages Lightroom creates for you. The blog will use it's template and the gallery will use the lightroom template...

Problem is that the pages still need to be hosted somewhere. As far as I'm aware Blogger and the like wouldn't let you have the pages on their server and link to them from your blog.

[mambo]

Hello,

Im currently using Hosting24 for my website, its under $5 a month with a free domain name if you use the vouchor cade “hosting10″.

Its good service, up time is good and they have all the blog scripts and galleries pre installed which saves a lot of faff.

I have been looking at how the lightroom web module works, ill give it a go today. Ill post a link when i'm done.

Regards

UPDATE: http://photography.mamb0.com/ so you can see how it handles on the webhost

[sk66]

Originally Posted by Free

Problem is that the pages still need to be hosted somewhere. As far as I'm aware Blogger and the like wouldn't let you have the pages on their server and link to them from your blog.

Ah, I don't blog myself...
Most hosting providers also have most of the free blog/php type setups installable on their servers...

[Sixpak]

I have used Total Choice for many years now. I have never had a problem with the service. I've referred a few other folks and no one has been disappointed. Highly recommended. Oh, and prices start at $4.00 per month

[Jabulani Jonny]

Originally Posted by mambo

Hello,

Im currently using Hosting24 for my website, its under $5 a month with a free domain name if you use the vouchor cade “hosting10″.

Its good service, up time is good and they have all the blog scripts and galleries pre installed which saves a lot of faff.

I have been looking at how the lightroom web module works, ill give it a go today. Ill post a link when i'm done.

Regards

UPDATE: http://photography.mamb0.com/ so you can see how it handles on the webhost

Dude, did you just throw that together using the Lightroom web module after this post?

Thanks for the recommendations for hosting. I'll check into those. I think you guys have answered my question which was if I needed a standalone hosting company to utilize the Lightroom web module, versus a blogging type service. Now let's see if I can settle on one. Thanks!

[morts]

Using something like angelfire or something for hosting photos is acceptable if that's all you're doing: hosting FILES.

If you are hosting a WEBSITE, then invest in some proper hosting with a domain name and so on! Having your own webspace and webserver is great because you can build up whatever gallery system you want without having to put up with banner ads and whatever the hell else Angelfire does...