Recommendations for Web Hosting Pkg.

[KDLA]

Hi,
I've been asked to asked to help a church set up a website. They're looking at signing up with a local web host. Could you please recommend what sort of package they should look for, based on this:

- their site will probably be 50 pages or less
- they'll be using lots of photographs
- they want email capabilities; the coding to create email forms needs to be simple
- they're a medium-sized church: possibly 200 users of the site (on a good day)
- there's talk that they want to create a discussion board; I'm not sure if they're meaning a blog or a forum

Also, (because I've always used my company's server and don't know about this stuff) when they use a web host, will their designer have direct access to the files, or will the designer have to submit pages to their host, then wait for the pages to be posted?

Any info. you can provide (without advertising a host ;)) will be appreciated.
Thanks,
KDLA

[ray326]

Any of the big guys like GoDaddy, 1&1, EV1, etc. should do. Check out what Netcraft has to say about their performance at http://uptime.netcraft.com/perf/reports/Hosters.

[KDLA]

Thanks, Ray.
I guess my post was a little vague - one of those blonde stream-of-consciousness moments.

What I need to know is what should I ask for from the web host, given the way the church will use the website ... like bandwidth, server set-up, email client, etc.

KDLA

[ray326]

I'd take it the other way. Given what you know of their needs, check the packages the most reliable hosts in that list have to offer for a near match. Some of them have very inexpensive bundles with most or all services ready to go.