Dan's Guide to Publishing Product Info on the Web
Many companies ask me for help getting their products listed
on my web pages.
Since my pages are mostly a collection of
links to companies' web pages, the first step is: get your own web page!
(I do rent space on www.kegel.com for a fee per page per year
as a favor to companies who don't want to bother with the process,
but it's not my real business.)
To help you get started with your own pages, here's technical and
pricing info from a few vendors.
--Dan Kegel
- About the Web & publishing info on it
- Servers that let you put up your own pages for free
- Lists of servers that let you put up your own pages for a fee
A Few Web Providers' Quoted Rates for Bulk WWW Server Space as of Sept 10th, 1995
(for comparison; this covers less than 1% of the Web providers listed above)
Note: Don't assume that a low price is a good deal, or that a high
price is a bad one. Check out quality of service before judging!
Also, some pricing schemes don't quite fit into this format, so
these should be taken as very approximate.
Here's one measure of responsiveness.
Only sites which quote prices per megabyte (not per page!) are listed.
- SelectNet (San Diego) NEW
Install: $50
Monthly: $20/mo + $2/MB over 1MB storage + $0.10 / MB trans over 500MB
- ID's WWW Services (infotech@tde.com)
Install: $0
Monthly: $15.00 + $0.5/(MB over 5) + $0.50/(1000 hits over 30,000)
- CERF n' WEB (sales@cerf.net)
Install: $250
Monthly: $250.00 + $5/(MB over 20) *or* +$0.16/(MB Trans over 300). Max $5000.
- A to Z Consulting (info@azc.com)
Install: $20
Monthly: $5.00 + $0.20/(MB over 3) + $0.10/(MB Trans over 250).
- Aadvantage Internet (webmaster@fy.com)
Install: $0
Monthly: $35.00 + $0.50/(MB over 5) + $???/(hits over 120,000).
- Abacus.net (Abacus@Abacus.Net)
Install: $50
Monthly: $50.00 + $2.00/(MB over 5) + $0.10/(meg trans over 500)
- Active Access
Install: $50
Monthly: $50.00 + $5.00/(MB over 5)
- American Information Network (info@ai.net)
Install: $40
Monthly: $65.00 + $0.50/(MB over 25) + $0.25/(meg trans over 100)
- ARIS (webmaster@way.com)
Install: $1000
Monthly: $100.00 + $1.00/(MB over 10) + $0.01/(meg trans over 1000) + $10/(1000 hits over 1000).
- Basenet (isbeen@basenet.net)
Install: $50
Monthly: $50.00 + $5.00/(MB over 10) + $???/(MB trans over 1000).
- Colorado Supernet (help@csn.net)
Install: $0
Monthly: $100.00 + $100/(750 MB trans over 750) (about $0.15/meg trans over 750)
- Colossus (colossus@colossus.net)
Install: $0
Monthly: $35.00 + $0.50/(MB over 5) + $???/(hits over 120,000).
- Cyber-active (Admin@Cyber-Active.com)
Install: $10
Monthly: $10.00 + $5.00/(MB over 2)
- Deltanet (sales@delta.net)
Install: $75
Monthly: $50.00 + $0.50/(MB over 5) + $50 / (500MB trans over 500MB) (about $0.10/MB trans over 500MB)
- The Digital Landlords (Chris@cLeVeR.NeT)
Install: $35
Monthly: $35.00 + $0.50/(MB over 5) (approx)
- ESHNAV.COM Services (web@eshnav.com)
Install: $100
Monthly: $100.00 + $???/(MB over 100) + $???/(hits over 100,000).
- Fabian's Web Service (sfabian@usbusiness.com)
Install: $25
Monthly: $12.00 + $1/(MB over 1) + $1/(PAGES over 1)
- Forthright 'Zine Services (webster@forthrt.com)
Install: $30
Monthly: $5.00 + $1.00/(MB over 5) (approx, billed quarterly)
- ftp.demon.co.uk:/pub/doc/WWW.txt. #25/mo
Install: #50
Monthly: #25 + #5/(MB over 5)
- Gastown (gastown@xmission.com)
Install: $10
Monthly: $9.00 + $1.00/(MB over 5)
- Hurricane Electric Self Serve Web/FTP Space (info@he.net)
Install: $15
Monthly: $1.00 + $2.98/(MB over 1) + $0.10/(MB trans over 100) + $1.50/(1000 hits over 100,000)
or:
Install: $50
Monthly: $39 + $1/(MB over 40) + $0.04/(MB trans over 1000) + $0.60/(1000 hits over 100,000) (approx)
- Jovanet (sales@jovanet.com)
Install: $99
Monthly: $49.00 + $20.00/(MB over 1) + $0.02/(MB trans over 1000) (10Mbps; approx)
- Webdomain (webinfo@webdomain.com)
Install: $44
Monthly: $8.00 + $0.15/(MB over 5) + $0.10/(MB trans over 150).
or:
Install: $100
Monthly: $16.00 + $0.15/(MB over 5)
- GPL Internet Services #20/mo
- Ping GmbH World Wide Web Server (afink@ping.ch)
Install: 106.50 SFR
Monthly: 17.-- SFR + 0.80 SFR/MB?
- The Internet Plaza Information (plaza@internet-plaza.net)
Install: $500
Monthly: $300.00 + $1.50/(MB over 5)
- InterNex: Matrix Marketplace Information $50/mo
- OuterNet (staff@outer.net)
Install: $???
Monthly: $30.00 + $1/(MB over 10) + $1/(MB trans over 100)
- Market.NET Connection Services (Bay Area) (connect-info@Market.NET)
Install: $150
Monthly: $1/Meg (Minimum $100)
- TerraNet (Massachusetts) (sales@terra.net)
Install: $500
Monthly: $50 + $0.175/Megabyte Stored + $0.055/Megabyte Transmitted