Listmembers:
Most of you may realize that the Sweet Owen website hasn't been updated in about 7
days.
I do have the data that has been sent to me from all of you. I am holding it temporarily
due to updating
of the site.
For purposes of the betterment of our site, I have recently made the commitment and
purchase of:
1) webspace
2) my own domain name
With the exception of a new background on the front page, most of you will not notice any
changes in the site whatsoever. However, I myself have been busy changing the home page
link on all the pages.
The reasons for the change are a couple and I felt them enough to make the move.
They are:
Webspace-- There has been talk in the genealogy arena among many that due to the merge of
Ancestry.com and Rootsweb, eventually Rootsweb may decide to make their sites "pay
per view". In the instance of
MyFamily.com, the prices are just exorbitant; so I
therefore decided to choose my own method or amount of payment and jumped ahead of what
may possibly come.
The other reason is that there are certain things that in order to obtain the webspace
from Rootsweb I had to promise not to have on the site.
These were:
Gedcoms
Any items on a "for sale" basis
Message boards or message forums
As several of you have asked in the past if we could include these on the site, I felt
that maybe our site would be better if we could.
I also know that several of you have books for sale to post on the site.
My initial goal was to have a site that had no limitations except for what we wanted on
there.
We will even have the capacity to run a mailing list if this becomes something we desire
or need.
I purchased the domain name in order to have a url address that was unique to the Sweet
Owen site only and one much simpler to remember and enter.
Both the webspace and the domain name fees are most economical and nothing to make me stop
having the site be completely free to access. The webspace is a monthly fee of under
$10.00 and the domain name is annually at $8.00.
What I plan to do is to create a mirror site and run both of these sites for a while until
everyone is accustomed to the new one. Either site will contain the same data-- of course
currently I am still putting items on the new site.
Our domain name and address is:
www.sweetowen.net
Pretty simple and right to the point.
Once I learn the ropes of how to do it, the Gedcoms will be downloadable, but please
don't swamp me with them now.
As many of you have inquired in the past about obtaining webspace at a low-rate, if you
are still interested in this please contact
jason(a)24acrosshosting.com
This email is for my son and he is co-partnered in a webhosting service on a corporate
level working with many of the colleges and businesses here in Indy. Mention that I
reffered you to him.
The webspace comes with 10 email addresses as well as several other services at a low
cost.
I wouldn't include this information but many of you have asked about webspace out
there so it may benefit someone.
I will resume updating the website in a day or two.
--
Debbie