5 "DISPOSABLE" Web Accounts

[KC9ECI]

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag....ty-safe (http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-disposable-web-accounts-to-keep-your-identity-safe/)

[KA8NCR]

Those are pretty good finds.

As marketers use technology for their purposes, as well as thieves, people are finding tools to combat them. So what advertisers and marketers end up with are people who are not mobile or motivated enough to evade them.

Which incidentally, are probably not very good demographics to try to market to anyway.

[w8gtf]

I pay $4 a month for a web hosting plan (so I can have my own website on it's own domain). I get 2,000 email addresses and unlimited forwards.

I can basically use a different email address for everything I register for online and I know who's selling my information and who isn't.

[KC9ECI]

Tim-

I get my web hosting from QTH.COM, who do you get yours through?

[KA8NCR]

Google Apps will host your domain for free; if you don't mind them throwing ads on the web interface. But they support IMAP and POP, so you don't ever have to use it.

[W4BD]

KC9ECI

Tom

Well I am already a subscriber so how do you do this? #I went to the premium services and didn't see anything about a web site. #Email me or PM either or just reply here as I would guess others would like to know also.

73's

EDIT

Well Tom I guess if I would read better I would see that it's QTH instead of QRZ. I guess thats the way for old blind burned out welders to get.

Bill

[w8gtf]

Quote[/b] (KC9ECI @ Dec. 30 2007,14:31)]Tim-

I get my web hosting from QTH.COM, who do you get yours through?
I go through 1&1. For $3.99 a month, I get 600 email boxes, unlimited forward boxes, 10 gigs of storage, 300 gigs of transfer a month, one domain (registration & renewal are included), and 10 SQL db's with a 100 meg max.

[KC9ECI]

I might be switching hosts! Do they use cpanel?

[w8gtf]

Quote[/b] (KC9ECI @ Jan. 01 2008,20:48)]I might be switching hosts! Do they use cpanel?
Yes they have a fairly decent control panel, I believe they use a form of Plesk. If you'd like. You can send me a PM with email address and I will be more than happy to send you some screen shots of the control panel.

The single draw back to using 1&1 with the plan I have is that they offer no shell command line access. But anything I would have needed to do at the command line, I have been able to do via FTP.

I can also say that their support is awesome. 24 hour phone support, and the email support is great too. I only had to call the phone support once, and my problem was due to a typo in my php.ini file. The lady I spoke too edited the file for me while I was on the phone and fixed the problem. Every time I have emailed them (maybe 3 or 4 times in the last year and a half), they have always responded with a solution in less than 24 hours.

[KD6NIG]

Good idea.

I can tell you the one reason though that GoDaddy (you know, the ones who made the racy Superbowl commercials) can undercut on domain names-they sell the heck out of their list if you don't opt out.

I (jokingly) specified a company "name" when I registered a few domains. They were the only ones I did it with. Now my "business" which doesn't exist gets so many offers for business loans, services (I've really been hit by the companies that sell labelers for postage!) and stuff like that its stopped being funny.

If you use them, make sure you opt out. There are a lot of companies out there wasting a lot of paper on me.

All over a name I stuck on there for fun. Man, they ran with it http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[w8gtf]

What's kind of funny if you have your own domain is to create an email address of abuse@<yourdomain>.com and use that. It's a cheap way of cutting down on spam.

[KC9ECI]

I can't kicjk about the support I've gotten from my hosting provider. QTH.COM is owned by Scott, KA9FOX who doesn't live all that far from me, and he's been more than available to assist when I've had issues.

[K9FV]

Link doesn't work now - any ideas?

[KG4RUL]

I doesn't matter how you try to cut down on spam, mail or electronic, it just keeps on coming. I had a business that has been inactive for 11 years now. Yesterday I got a mailing to that business name. Someone is selling some very stale mailing lists to unsuspecting customers http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif

[K9FV]

Quote[/b] (K9FV @ Jan. 06 2008,22:11)]Link doesn't work now - any ideas?
Monday morning, Jan 7th the site works, but setup an account and that didn't seem to work. Great idea though and I'll keep trying.

Ken

[ve3sre]

I'm also hosting with 1&1.com but I'm one tier "up" from W8GTF...mine is a whole $4.99 a month...and they do "promos" from time to time.

They allow me two domain names...so I can add a second one whenever I feel like it.

I get 120 GB of web space, 1200 GB of monthly traffic, 10 FTP accounts and 1200 e-mail accounts...so serious "overkill" ...but hey it's incredibly cheap so why not?

They also give you the choice of being hosted on Linux or Windows.

It's not the speediest service in the world...I have a few small ham radio video clips on my site and they load pretty slowly.

I figure the e-mail contact address on the site will be seriously spammed...so it's basically a "throw away" that I check very infrequently. I've found 1and1.com's spam filtering to be quite good...all of the suspected spam is put into a single e-mail report that's sent to you once a day...and the spam gets automagically wiped after 30 days.
If they mis-identify a message as spam it's very easy to go into the web interface and "whitelist" an e-mail address or a domain.

From time to time if a friend is having a problem with an ISP e-mail address I just create one for them.

Anyway...1&1 is cheap and cheerful!

73