Who is the best US based host for FrontPage 2002?

[Guest]

Been with Yahoo Small Biz for 2 years. Suddenly, one of the FP server
extensions wouldn't work. Yahoo advice to repair (and apparent software bug
on their part) has disabled some FP functionality on the site that I support.
Help has been slow to come (24 hrs and still waiting). Reading between the
lines, Yahoo wants to discourage use of FP and encourage use of their own
SiteBuilder.

Would like to transfer site. Looking for Host that really supports use of FP.

 

[Steve Easton]

If you had to repair the extensions, try republishing your site using the
http:// publishing method.

As for hosting companies, it's hard to say which is best, but there are many
good ones.

Google for: FrontPage hosting


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Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
This site is best viewed............
........................with a computer

 

[Guest]

Thanks for your reply. Yahoo's software to repair the extensions bombed on
me because some overlay and derived files were referencing a custom theme
that is no longer used on our site. So, I've lost all my publishing rites!
I couldn't delete all these files in Yahoo file manager because Yahoo
software thinks 1 file has invalid name. I cannot see why this file is
invalid and am confused as to how it got uploaded if it was invalid? Think
this might also be a Yahoo software bug. Still waiting for Yahoo reply.
Going to esclate via phone.

 

[Dan G]

LunarPages has a pretty robust set of options, and are fully FP compliant.
Nice price too.

 

[Guest]

I'll check it out. Finally got my site back. Yahoo claims problem was
caused by spaces in file names. Their tech support said that this could
result in broken extensions. Does this sound reasonable? How come Yahoo
accepted the files in the first place then?

Files requesting "missing" theme were generated by FP (_overlay &
_derived). Couldn't see them in Yahoo File Manager (YFM) because they're
hidden files. I had to delete my entire site using YFM and FTP and republish.

 

[Windsun]

Yahoo is Unix (modified Apache), so yes spaces in file names is bad. In fact
it is always bad practice, even on MS servers, which will work.

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[Guest]

I know spaces are bad practice. I slipped up and Yahoo didn't have
functionality to protect me. Nor did they warn me of potential problems when
reactivating.

 

[Michael Hemphill]

I have used an inexspensive Windows based server which works great with
Frontpage many times.

winsave.com

There are quite a few to choose from but i have been staisfied with their
service on 6 of my sites for a few years.

Good luck
\Michael