Farm Web Page

thestartupman · #1 02/22/12, 09:08 AM

Who do you use for your farm website hosting if you have one? What do you like, or dislike about them? How is the pricing?

SFM in KY · #2 02/22/12, 09:38 AM

I have horses, so my farm website has been on the stallionstation site since it went up in 2000. I couldn't be happier with it, she designed the website for me, I'm currently paying $150 a year for the hosting and the changes for existing pages are included. I don't know what she charges now for website design ... and might not be useful for a more general farm website. It has always worked very well for me however.

http://www.stallionstation.com/kaleidoscopefarm

madness · #3 02/22/12, 09:38 AM

I just use a regular hosting company, not one of those services that helps you set up the site (freewebs, geocites, etc). I use BlueHost. It has all the features I need, plus a lot more. It costs about $7 a month if you pay for 3 years.

I also use wordpress to "make" the site. It's free, but I did buy a $35 template for it.

Wags · #4 02/22/12, 07:37 PM

I buy my domain name from GoDaddy, and use weebly.com for my hosting - it's free, and the only indication that its not a paid site is a small line of text at the bottom of a page saying that it is hosted by Weebly. No other advertisements at all. There is a link to my site in my siggy if you want to check them out.

thestartupman · #5 02/23/12, 08:23 AM

Nice website Wags. Did you set it up yourself, or pay to have someone do it for you? If yiou did it yourself, was it easy to do?

hiddensprings · #6 02/23/12, 11:51 AM

We use Small Farm Central for our website and hosting. It is a bit more expensive then the others that are listed on this thread but it included my shopping cart so customers can order online, a CSA sign-up and management tool for me so I can bill customers easily, and the BEST support available. Small Farm Central only does sites for farms/homesteads/etc so they know what their doing and know that most of us do not have a lot of time to spend in front of the computer. My site is easy to update, I can send out email newsletters to all of my followers easily. Anyways, you can look at our website at www.hiddenspringsfarms.com and visit www.smallfarmcentral.com for their pricing and options.

earthkitty · #7 02/29/12, 03:28 PM

Thanks for this thread! I just bought my domain name today and then searched here for where people are hosting their sites. Good ideas here. I hope other people add to them.

earthkitty · #8 02/29/12, 03:34 PM

Wow, Wags, nice site!

beewench · #9 02/29/12, 04:32 PM

We use Homesteading Host for our website hosting and set it up with WordPress. Homestead Host is very inexpensive, starting at less than $6 a month! And they are very very nice and extremely helpful!

www.beewenchfarm.com