Where is your church website hosted?

[Hutchfbcmurphy]

We host our own sites from a linux box. It is one of our 4 servers at our church. We use it to host our main page along with a youth page, my personal site and a few sites for some small bands I know.

[GoodSenseTech]

we use hostgator and love them. we have 3 ministry domains each with separate websites - hostgator people talked us through website setup, phpMyAdmin, all that jazz--super helpful.

[matthewbeamish]

Our website is hosted by MediaServe.com - they were orginally known as ChurchQuest.com. You should check out their "About" page (on the side navigation).

One of the primary reason we are still with them is they charge a very decent price, have amazing and fast support, and even though it is not listed as a feature on their website, they do have FFmpeg installed on some of their servers, at no additional charge. We use FFmpeg to convert video formats server-side for videos uploaded by our congregation - basically just like YouTube does behind the scenes.

Our site runs a custom CMS, written in PHP, that I have spent the past few years developing, with church use in mind. Eventually, I hope to release it and allow public use of it. One of the big issues I have with the major CMS (Joomla, Drupal, WordPress) is that they are designed for a specific purpose (Joomla - Hosting Articles, WordPress - blog), and in order to do tasks other then the specific purpose, you have to take different steps/actions then normally, and this can becoming quite confusing for average church secretary/member to handle/customize. Everything can be used in different areas, and I am not hating on Joomla or anything - I use Joomla to run a business website, and it has helped me achieve somethings that I needed to do - every product has its pros and cons, and I just think for a lot of churches most the CMS aren't tailored to church use, and ease of use. So I wanted to develop something that would be simple, and allow ANYONE to update a blog entry, photo gallery, videos, sermons, member directory etc, especially without having to go to an "admin" page to perform the task. My inspiration was actually Facebook - they had all the links to edit, add photos, delete for their photo albums easily accessible on the page you were on. I took that approach for my CMS, and whether you are updating a photo gallery, video, article, all the links are right there on the page (right in your face) for you to add, edit, delete etc... it makes it easy for those people who need to update fast/don't have a lot of experience with CMS. Hahaha well I kinda went on a rant, but I just wanted to share wanted to share what I have seen/experienced.

[wogster]

Ours is with Radiant, and let me tell ya, I wanna put my foot through it, most of the time the interface is complex and what you can do is restricted to what they offer. Probably okay as a plug and play interface, but there is no open abilities for altering things and the amount of storage is limited, it's also expensive.

Planning on moving it at some point, just with a new baby and trying to fix the A/V system, time is a little jammed at the moment.

[genepensiero]

+1 for dreamhost. totally free. and our website is now over 1TB in size due to video & audio archives.

great customer service, almost never had a moment of downtime in the years that we've been with them.

and, seriously, it's free. totally free. no tricks or gimmicks. free hosting with unlimited space and bandwidth for life.

[Pastor Ryan]

we use FaithConnector for our hosting needs on our main site

I do all our other sites and personal work through WebHostingPad.com they've been pretty good without any down time.

[samchuck]

We use Ipage.com. Customer Support is ok and located in WVA. All english speaking. $2.95 a month for unlimited bandwidth,Domain Names.....

[SterlingAug]

We use Squarespace.com for our website:

http://FindPurposeAtFaith.org

[Pastor Ryan]

a new site that I just made recently
http://www.WednesdaysOnPurpose.com

hosted through webhostingpad for less than $2 a month

[metatrox]

We use www.Weebly.com as the primary hosting and CMS.
Then we also use www.dot5hosting.com for Video streaming.


www.Newlifegallup.org

[rjwalker]

Originally Posted by metatrox

We use www.Weebly.com as the primary hosting and CMS.
www.Newlifegallup.org

FWIW, a demo church directory I've put together iusing Weebly to pitch to a couple of churches: http://465579656739528048.weebly.com/ (See Betty Bonaventure for the page with a video witness....)

The password is Numbers

On edit - I should have mentioned - the directory is pretty much "hand built" rather than driven by scripts and databases and stuff.

The individual's pages can be created by copying one page to another, but there is still a lot of hand work

I've offered it to very small churches, with an explicit step by step directions for doing each page. (takes about 2-3 minutes person)

Iit might be possible to automate the process with a scripting language

[ATaylor]

Godaddy has good service.