Web host, domain and jpg/gif info needed please

jassi_9

Hi can anybody recommend a good place to buy my web hosting and domain name from please?

Cheap is great but i want a good quality service, so if its a few £ more for a more reliable service then i dont mind paying it.

Regarding the designing of my site, i need pictures of my products, but these are readily available on the internet (it is not a niche product, lots of people see these items already)

Am i allowed to just use they images that other people have on they're sites? (by right clicking and saving to my computer....then uploading onto my website)

Is this allowed or is it copyright material?

I could take my own pictures but it would take alot longer and to be honest the pictures other people use would probably come out looking alot better.

Any advice is welcome, thanks...

victor2

There are loads of hosting/registration companies and just as many people happy with them, so expect lots of suggestions. I have used Orchard Hosting for a number of years and continue to use and recommend them. Not the cheapest and certainly not the most expensive, but outstanding support in my experience.

As for copying images from somewhere, you could well trip over copyright problems IF anyone looks into it. If you copy from another site on the web, there may be no copyright stated there, but they may have copied it from somewhere else and ultimately somebody somewhere may hold copyright over it. It's getting easier to search the web for images now, so you could get caught out in the future. May not look so professional, but I'd take my own pictures and put the website logo as a watermark in them - and put a copyright note on the site!

jassi_9

victor2 wrote: »

There are loads of hosting/registration companies and just as many people happy with them, so expect lots of suggestions. I have used Orchard Hosting for a number of years and continue to use and recommend them. Not the cheapest and certainly not the most expensive, but outstanding support in my experience.

As for copying images from somewhere, you could well trip over copyright problems IF anyone looks into it. If you copy from another site on the web, there may be no copyright stated there, but they may have copied it from somewhere else and ultimately somebody somewhere may hold copyright over it. It's getting easier to search the web for images now, so you could get caught out in the future. May not look so professional, but I'd take my own pictures and put the website logo as a watermark in them - and put a copyright note on the site!

Thanks mate

Have checked out the website and they do look like a professionally run company. Will deff look into them further, as you say they aren't very cheap but i don't want a host that takes ages to load up my web page or has constant problems with email inbox etc

I had a look on google images so i think it is ok to use pictures found on there, rather than just saving random images from all over the web?

jassi_9

scotty501 wrote: »

Personally I use UK-US Hosting - they are really helpful. I started a wordpress site for my private group and I did not have a clue where to start - their guys did it pretty much for me - and it was free

The hosting was not free nor the domian - but the install of the site was - they come back to me within minutes of any question. I could not recommened them enough. www.ukushosting.com

Thanks for the suggestion but to be honest they're website looks very cheap and not professional at all, and for a website company i would honestly expect them to have a much better site than that.

jassi_9

I had been told about 123reg and they are cheap, but a freind of mine showed me his site and it is slow to load with errors all over the place, pages not loading etc.

Anybody else have similar experience's with them? Or can anybody recommend some other good quality/reputable web hosts to comapre orchard to please?

Farway

Have a look at Vidahost

I use them, quick response, UK based, and will talk through any problems, really friendly & know what they are doing IME

123 is fine for buying domain from

victor2

jassi_9 wrote: »

I had a look on google images so i think it is ok to use pictures found on there, rather than just saving random images from all over the web?

The Google image search just shows images it has found by crawling the web and the sites they are on may hold their own copyright. It's not an area I can claim to have any legal understanding over. For example, what gives Google the right to display images found on other sites?
Perhaps somebody who does have some sort of legal knowledge could comment?

InsideInsurance

Ok, back to basics as it sounds like you are trying to run before you've learned to walk.

Have you selected an ecommerce solution yet? Your webhost evidently needs to be able to support the technologies it uses and you really really should choose a host that supports the software and not a software that is supported by the host you have somewhat randomly chosen.

On the picture front, all pictures are copyrighted unless the creator of the image has explicitly given up their rights to the copyright. Purely by where you find it there are absolutely no assurances that it is copyright free. The software for tracking down people who are using pictures without authorisation is getting increasingly sophisticated and most the professional product/ commercial photographers I know make more money from people breaching copyright than from those that directly commission the images.

If you are selling branded products then those brands or their distributors normally have stock images that they give out to sites for them to use and so either visiting the website or a quick email to them normally solves the problem.