On Saturday, July 13, 2019 at 7:10:41 PM UTC-10, Leonard Blaisdell wrote:
> In article >,
> > wrote:
>
> > I don't know how to maintain a web site but I'd gladly donate the few
> > dollars, I don't think the fee is very much. Something must have
> > befallen them in South Africa... a very troubled spot on the planet.
> > And actually from what I was told it was her husband who mostly
> > maintained the site.
>
> One needs to secure the domain name, or change it slightly if the
> original is being held hostage for big bucks. Let's call the new one
> recfoodcookingforever.com for now. I used to use GoDaddy for this.
> <www.godaddy.com>, but there are others. It's inexpensive to secure a
> domain name. It can be expensive to use a old one.
> Then you need a hosting service. I used BlueHost, but I see GoDaddy
> seems to do this now. That is fairly inexpensive also.
> The total cost to me used to be less than fifty bucks a month. It may
> cost a little more for a secure server site which one ought to have
> these days, I've been told.
> HTML 4.01 Strict forever! Yeah! Um...obsolete.
> Then you have to create and upload the site to the host. I used to
> create and upload my own stuff, so there was no charge for that. But
> I'm old now and haven't kept up with the web. HTML and CSS were a
> breeze to learn and a breeze to forget.
> Creating a site as simple as rfc is/was easy, but maintaining it with
> new info is a pain in the ass if you're not dedicated to the job. I'm
> surprised that Chatty Cathy maintained it for so long for nothing at
> all. Thanks, Chatty Cathy, from the bottom of my heart!
> Comments Steve?
>
> leo

I used to have a domain name registered through a proxy. The hosting and domain cost me less than $200 a year. I had it for thirteen years. $600 a year seems kinda steep.