Thanks Dien,

He was asking me about Crazy Domains. I did a quick "review search" and found Loads of issues with them - mainly their uptime is atrocious. Stacks written on whirlpool forums about how Bad they are.

I remembered Dotster but have found they are recently gone down hill in a big way and people are jumping ship like nuts.

I suggested to him to use Doteasy when he first asked but at the time he wanted a all in one provider - domain reg and hosting. But he discovered most US hosts cannot register .au names.

Thanks Ankesh,

He wants his site to have a small catalog of items. At this stage let's say a dozen. And those items to be bought from the site using a payment processor. At the moment he is thinking eway http://www.eway.com.au cause PayPal is too expensive. I told him the processor fees are a cost of doing business and to factor that into his price.

So as I see it, he doesn't need full shopping cart scripting available from his host as he is using eway's cart. But nor does he want to pay $20 a month for hosting. As usual, wanting all the goodies without paying for them.

Thanks, I shall pass on all this info for him to investigate some more.

There was a host I was using years ago who was quite excellent. Cannot recall who they were now. Anyways...

Michael