#godaddy web hosting

[anbuselvi1]

GoDaddy Honest Review - pro and cons

GoDaddy Honest Review - pro and cons

GoDaddy Honest Review – pro and cons With quite a thousand website hosting services out there, it’s pretty difficult to seek out a number that’s perfect for your needs. At first glance, GoDaddy is great, having low prices and a few great features.But if you check out customer reviews and feedback, you will see some polarized opinions, too.So what’s the case exactly with GoDaddy? do you have to…

[voidimp]

trying to find any information on anything is so fucking impossible these days

[helloomaruf]

How do I Invite a Delegate to Access my GoDaddy Account?

Sharing access to your GoDaddy account can be helpful when working with employees, web developers, freelancers, or contractors to manage your websites, funnels, or online presence.

By delegating access on GoDaddy, you allow specific people to help with tasks, making it easier to manage everything. You can choose how much access they get. By sharing access this way, you can focus on other important parts of your business, knowing that your online assets are being handled properly.

[ukwebsitehosting]

Web hosting is the powerhouse behind your website. For this reason, your choice of web host is crucial to ensuring reliability, performance and security. In this post, we compare two leading web hosts, GoDaddy, the world’s biggest web hosting provider, based in the US, and Webhosting UK, an independent British web host which has been providing innovative hosting services for over two decades.

[sutrala]

Rumors Of Internal Riffs Between The #1 Registrar In The World GoDaddy And One Of The Most Versatile Tech Powerhouses In History Sutra Nexus. 20+ Year Partnership May Be At Risk

Sutra LA | March 7th 2024

Rumors are circulating that there are internal riffs between GoDaddy and its long time partner Sutra Nexus, a tech hybrid capable of everything from selling hosting and business services to private military contracts and "ethical" hacker recruiting.

Sutra Nexus was founded in Atlanta, GA in 1998 nearly 8 months before Google was launched in a garage. It launched with a diverse product and service line ranging from web, graphic, print design to selling business solutions like conferencing, forwarding numbers, and even computer hardware. But soon it was discovered that Sutra Nexus operated in the sole interest of black operations for its parent company Imperial Alliance Corporation for such things as ION Canons, hacker tools, Internet and personal Security, and was known for donating money to pro gun, pro conservative, and Hacktavist groups.

Sutra Nexus operated under other names such as Trebor Surge Technologies, LHC, Arc Phoenix Corporation, and FlashKore Systems; but the way Sutra Nexus has grown and expanded is one of the most un-orthodox road maps for a tech company. Its business strategy has been referred to as "Starfish Strategy" and "The Liquid Principle", and most commonly "The Ghost Machine".

In other words, fail proof and bullet proof with or without any connections or partnerships whatsoever. Also seeking to always keep the company private using psych marketing to constantly appear, disappear, and reappear while shuffling it's many subsidiaries around all-the-while forging new contracts, Technologies, and even whole agencies built up and practically given away to other companies and firms. The tradeoff is "tricking" larger tech companies to complete certain tech in ways that are too vague or "too close to being the wheel" to patent or own. Sutra Nexus would then offer the completed tech to smaller more gullible firms in exchange for the lions share of the profits.

This is but one method Sutra Nexus uses to make its money.

Also, when it comes to its direct clients and customers, most get treated like absolute royalty as long as they follow the plans and strategies of Sutra Nexus. Those who challenge or alter the set forth plan in any way, shape, or form, Sutra Nexus makes unprecedented responses almost no other firm or company in the same space makes....it attacks them. To date Sutra Nexus has never lost a case, chargeback, breach of contract, or broken partnership even after the company has been accused of unethical retaliation.

Despite these rumors and accusations, Sutra Nexus clients love the firm. Perhaps its because Sutra Nexus has been known to use the same tactics to defend itself to also defend and protect its clients. There is virtually no organization out there willing to go the lengths to protect small or large businesses alike than Sutra Nexus.

Some see this in the age of Big Tech censorship and constant agency fall outs as a much needed catalyst in such an age of constant market stress, inflation, and bad policy makers critically impacting businesses for fringe, unproven causes politicians are echoing just to grand stand for votes. It's the Age of Pipe Dreams.

Sutra Nexus first went into partnership with GoDaddy in 1999, a year after its launch, when founder Bob Parsons first took the company to the mainstream rivaling the establishment's Web.com and Network Solutions.

In 2010 Sutra Nexus dissolved their contract with its former hosting partner and inked a deal with GoDaddy under a special corporate account allowing Sutra Nexus to BETA test new products and services before officially launching to its customers. Sutra Nexus, founder Robert Chrisley loved the company so much he even went further by becoming a reseller to demonstrate how ground-breaking the program was and harshly defended GoDaddy against numerous troubled waters throughout the 2000s and the 2010s. It's even rumored he lead a botnet against GoDaddy watchdog site NoDaddy.com.

After GoDaddy went public on April 1st 2015, Chrisley's birthday, he bought several shares of stock and praised Parsons for the direction he had taken the company. But Chrisley began to notice a downward pattern in the company after Parsons finally left the company completely in 2018.

Since then there have been not-so-obvious falling dominos because of the way Sutra Nexus operated, but none-the-less the aftermath was very obvious. Per Sutra Nexus test labs and consulting, GoDaddy was advised to faze out its Fax Thru Email product in favor of a business phone number forwarding service similar to Grasshopper and eVoice. Later Chrisley advised their recently rebuilt flagship website Builder (at the time known as "Go Central") to include everything from Appointment System, built in store as a addable section, SEO friendly native blog, built-in SEO software, a CRM, built in email and email marketing, and an in-house POS/merchant solution as an alternative to PayPal, Square, and Stripe. Additionally a marketing dashboard that connects the website dashboard to social media channels to compete with Hootsuite as well as a graphic/image/social post designer to compete with Canva (despite the fact Sutra Nexus has been a partner of Canva since 2016).

Between 2018 and 2020 every single one of these features were implemented by GoDaddy as:

Smartline (now Connections) (after purchasing Freedomwire)

2. Websites + Marketing (rebranded Go Central)

3. GoDaddy Studio

4. GoDaddy Payments (after purchasing Poynt)

5. Microsoft 365 (after fazing out its Workspace product)

6. Every single internal change suggested.

Sutra Nexus never received credit or perks for the changes and didn't mind so as long as they were able to use them unfettered. But over the past 3 years, that has steadily changed.

New dashboard upgrades causes havoc platform-wide severely impacting Sutra Nexus operations and profits, particularly last year when the RCC on GoDaddy got a major overhaul.

The original deal was to remain with Wild West Domains and Starfield Technologies which GoDaddy didn't honor. Instead, gutting both companies after purchasing them and moving Admins over to GoDaddy.

Sutra Nexus is also renown for its stand against liberal and leftist ideology going as far as having the domain extensions .DEMOCRAT .LGBT, .XXX, and a few others completely removed from its Domain Registry giving all those who had registered the domains with Sutra Nexus less than 24 hours to transfer them out to another registrar or lose them. (This is in retaliation to GoDaddy doing the exact same thing with Christian-owned free speech advocate social media platform and Twitter alternative Gab.com).

This did not help ease tension between GoDaddy and Sutra Nexus but instead maintain a very tight balance after.

GoDaddy soon responded by introducing a subtle but blatant swipe as a feature for the month of June during Pride Month by having both its own website Builder product and all who carried the branded version of the Wild West Domains website Builder to display a glowing rainbow effect whenever a website Builder user published changes live. This reportedly angered Chrisley so much that he was rumored to have been part of the GoDaddy server attacks off and on until GoDaddy implemented the use of AWS Config in 2021, but Chrisley denies this completely and there is no evidence or any connection to the blackouts, server throttles that plagued GoDaddy through a variety of products since 2019.

However, the timing is very coincidental in many cases. In 2014, after repeated attempts to make a deal with Google to offer their premium email suite GSuite (now called Workspace) , GoDaddy sought after the Microsoft 365 product in order to save on in-house resources. Sutra Nexus rejected the idea entirely siting the security flaws on Microsoft's platform and the fact its own Robert Chrisley is a huge advocate against Bill Gates and Microsoft credited in calling out the Gates/Epstein connections long before it made mainstream news. Chrisley outright refused to carry any Microsoft products and threaten GoDaddy to either keep WWD Workspace intact and updated or find a different solution or he would break the partnership. In 2020 Chrisley also proclaimed the servers would eventually be hacked. GoDaddy ignored his warnings. But in November 2023 a Russian hacker group hacked Microsoft servers in November 2023 and was not discovered until January 2024. This is only the latest of a series of security breaches, most being swept under the rug and down the memory hole.

In 2022 GoDaddy offered a "M365 clone" ran on GoDaddy secure email servers as a private label product which Chrisley agreed to adopt to replace Workspace. This transitional period protected Sutra Nexus and all of its clients from the wave of breaches that were either attempted or unsuccessful during this period because despite the "clone" look of Microsoft, the servers were not Microsoft servers.

Another breach Chrisley predicted was in 2018 when Chrisley effective removed Wordpress, Wordpress Hosting, and Shared Hosting products from Sutra Nexus product line stating that WordPress was a huge security risk, janky, unreliable, and one of the most unstable useless excuses for using as a business presence since flash websites. The prediction turned out to be true.

Hackers first accessed the login credentials and SSL keys of 1.2 million GoDaddy Managed WordPress customers on September 6, 2021. The unauthorized third party used the vulnerability to access the email addresses and contact numbers of the customers. GoDaddy immediately blocked the third party from the system, began an investigation, and contacted law enforcement.

But the damage was already done and once again, Sutra Nexus clients did not suffer any windfall because of Chrisley's clever positioning of clients on the right products and services to protect them as invaluable assets. Despite Sutra Nexus ruthless attacks against anyone or anything that threatens it, it actually has a pretty great track record for fighting black hat hacking, moral causes, and client security while also advocating to keep a free and open internet.

It is a seemingly conflicting juxtaposition to some who may be dull to the whole industry, but supporters quickly point out that Sutra Nexus never goes after personal assets of anyone that it retaliates against as long as the offense has not done the same. And if Sutra Nexus has been breached in a monetary sense, then it immediately pursues the offender legally. At least that's what its spokeswoman Julie Nguyen stated when asked to comment on this article.

The latest rumor states that GoDaddy revoked its payment processor from Sutra Nexus over charge backs, but maybe being used as a loophole to move against Sutra Nexus without appearing to break any contracts or legal agreements. Sutra Nexus denies this, instead insisting that customers can buy any product on their storefront as of today with no problem. However, the rumor isn't referring to the processor used on Sutra Nexus Domain and Hosting store, but the GoDaddy Payments account that was being used to bill for agency services from Sutra Nexus.

Whether the rumors are true or not, the fact that Sutra Nexus has always emerged from any battle smoke as the David in the middle of Tech Goliaths could be a cautionary tale GoDaddy may be advised to take seriously and consider before pulling a "Gab.com" on a company and a successful entrepreneur who has zero old school problem of shooting back. In fact, based on the track record Sutra Nexus has had with GoDaddy over the years, Sutra Nexus has been treated more like a betrayed best friend. A best friend that hides its abilities and defense strengths from GoDaddy because it assumes GoDaddy is also a friend. Only time will tell. But underestimating Sutra Nexus or its owners or subsidiaries is a best a fool's errand.

In closing there is another rumor floating that Sutra Nexus has finally created the perfect in-house solution to completely house its business clients on its own without the need for GoDaddy, including hosting, domains, security, and even the ability to have its own resellers (just like it currently has now) and other tech it can fully control, keep up to date, entice loyal customers, and leave GoDaddy entirely. If there is anything to what has been mentioned here, that may very well be true. Because, Sutra Nexus is so good at keeping secrets, the information here may not have even been leaked or rumored unless Chrisley himself wanted to be.

[ilserviziodigitale]

Acquista il Tuo Dominio Personalizzato: Una Guida per Principianti

Acquista il Tuo Dominio Personalizzato: Una Guida per Principianti: Sei pronto a costruire la tua identità digitale e a lasciare un’impronta nel vasto mondo di Internet? L’acquisto di un dominio personalizzato è il primo passo fondamentale in questa entusiasmante avventura. Un dominio personalizzato non solo offre una veste professionale alla tua presenza online, ma aiuta anche a costruire il tuo…

[codehunger]

A Beginner's Guide: How to Publish Your Website on GoDaddy in Simple Steps

Embarking on the journey to publish your website is an exciting step toward establishing your online presence. In this guide, we’ll walk you through the straightforward steps to publish your website using the popular web hosting platform, GoDaddy. Whether you’re a business owner, blogger, or an aspiring online entrepreneur, this step-by-step tutorial will demystify the process. Step 1: Choose…

[masr356]

GoDaddy Review - The Good and Bad for 2024

GoDaddy Review 2024: A Look into the Future! Welcome to the future of web hosting with GoDaddy! As we enter 2024, it’s time to look at this industry giant and discover what makes it stand out. In this article, we will delve into the pros and cons of GoDaddy, its astonishing advancements, and how it can be your ultimate sidekick in achieving online success. So, fasten your seatbelts and prepare…

[bloggyideas]

A Comprehensive Guide to GoDaddy Reviews | Bloggyideas

Looking for a reliable web hosting provider? Our 2023 GoDaddy review covers its features, pricing, and more.

[chrisullrich]

New Home, Same Stuff

Hello to all of you who follow this blog. I do appreciate you. Just wanted to take a minute to let you know I’ve left Media Temple and moved my whole operation to new hosting. Why did I do this? Well, one big reason and a few smaller ones. The big one is Media Temple was purchased by Go Daddy. I don’t like Go Daddy. Never have, never will. So, that’s a big “No” for me. The smaller reasons have to…

[superheromarketing]

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[cyberianlife]

Web hosting giant GoDaddy says it suffered a breach where unknown attackers have stolen source code and installed malware on its servers after breaching its cPanel shared hosting environment in a multi-year attack.

While GoDaddy discovered the security breach following customer reports in early December 2022 that their sites were being used to redirect to random domains, the attackers had access to the company's network for multiple years.

"Based on our investigation, we believe these incidents are part of a multi-year campaign by a sophisticated threat actor group that, among other things, installed malware on our systems and obtained pieces of code related to some services within GoDaddy," the hosting firm said in an SEC filing.

[komaedalovemail]

komaedas have you tried straw.page?

(i hope you don't mind if i make a big ollllle webdev post off this!)

i have never tried straw.page but it looks similar to carrd and other WYSIWYG editors (which is unappealing to me, since i know html/css/js and want full control of the code. and can't hide secrets in code comments.....)

my 2 cents as a web designer is if you're looking to learn web design or host long-term web projects, WYSIWYG editors suck doodooass. you don't learn the basics of coding, someone else does it for you! however, if you're just looking to quickly host images, links to your other social medias, write text entries/blogposts, WYSIWYG can be nice.

toyhouse, tumblr, deviantart, a lot of sites implement WYSIWYG for their post editors as well, but then you can run into issues relying on their main site features for things like the search system, user profiles, comments, etc. but it can be nice to just login to your account and host your information in one place, especially on a platform that's geared towards that specific type of information. (toyhouse is a better example of this, since you have a lot of control of how your profile/character pages look, even without a premium account) carrd can be nice if you just want to say "here's where to find me on other sites," for example. but sometimes you want a full website!

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neocities hosting

currently, i host my website on neocities, but i would say the web2.0sphere has sucked some doodooass right now and i'm fiending for something better than it. it's a static web host, e.g. you can upload text, image, audio, and client-side (mostly javascript and css) files, and html pages. for the past few years, neocities' servers have gotten slower and slower and had total blackouts with no notices about why it's happening... and i'm realizing they host a lot of crypto sites that have crypto miners that eat up a ton of server resources. i don't think they're doing anything to limit bot or crypto mining activity and regular users are taking a hit.

↑ page 1 on neocitie's most viewed sites we find this site. this site has a crypto miner on it, just so i'm not making up claims without proof here. there is also a very populated #crypto tag on neocities (has porn in it tho so be warned...).

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dynamic/server-side web hosting

$5/mo for neocities premium seems cheap until you realize... The Beautiful World of Server-side Web Hosting!

client-side AKA static web hosting (neocities, geocities) means you can upload images, audio, video, and other files that do not interact with the server where the website is hosted, like html, css, and javascript. the user reading your webpage does not send any information to the server like a username, password, their favourite colour, etc. - any variables handled by scripts like javascript will be forgotten when the page is reloaded, since there's no way to save it to the web server. server-side AKA dynamic web hosting can utilize any script like php, ruby, python, or perl, and has an SQL database to store variables like the aforementioned that would have previously had nowhere to be stored.

there are many places in 2024 you can host a website for free, including: infinityfree (i use this for my test websites :B has tons of subdomains to choose from) [unlimited sites, 5gb/unlimited storage], googiehost [1 site, 1gb/1mb storage], freehostia [5 sites/1 database, 250mb storage], freehosting [1 site, 10gb/unlimited storage]

if you want more features like extra websites, more storage, a dedicated e-mail, PHP configuration, etc, you can look into paying a lil shmoney for web hosting: there's hostinger (this is my promocode so i get. shmoney. if you. um. 🗿🗿🗿) [$2.40-3.99+/mo, 100 sites/300 databases, 100gb storage, 25k visits/mo], a2hosting [$1.75-12.99+/mo, 1 site/5 databases, 10gb/1gb storage], and cloudways [$10-11+/mo, 25gb/1gb]. i'm seeing people say to stay away from godaddy and hostgator. before you purchase a plan, look up coupons, too! (i usually renew my plan ahead of time when hostinger runs good sales/coupons LOL)

here's a big webhost comparison chart from r/HostingHostel circa jan 2024.

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domain names

most of the free website hosts will give you a subdomain like yoursite.has-a-cool-website-69.org, and usually paid hosts expect you to bring your own domain name. i got my domain on namecheap (enticing registration prices, mid renewal prices), there's also porkbun, cloudflare, namesilo, and amazon route 53. don't use godaddy or squarespace. make sure you double check the promo price vs. the actual renewal price and don't get charged $120/mo when you thought it was $4/mo during a promo, certain TLDs (endings like .com, .org, .cool, etc) cost more and have a base price (.car costs $2,300?!?). look up coupons before you purchase these as well!

namecheap and porkbun offer something called "handshake domains," DO NOT BUY THESE. 🤣🤣🤣 they're usually cheaper and offer more appealing, hyper-specific endings like .iloveu, .8888, .catgirl, .dookie, .gethigh, .♥, .❣, and .✟. I WISH WE COULD HAVE THEM but they're literally unusable. in order to access a page using a handshake domain, you need to download a handshake resolver. every time the user connects to the site, they have to provide proof of work. aside from it being incredibly wasteful, you LITERALLY cannot just type in the URL and go to your own website, you need to download a handshake resolver, meaning everyday internet users cannot access your site.

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hosting a static site on a dynamic webhost

you can host a static (html/css/js only) website on a dynamic web server without having to learn PHP and SQL! if you're coming from somewhere like neocities, the only thing you need to do is configure your website's properties. your hosting service will probably have tutorials to follow for this, and possibly already did some steps for you. you need to point the nameserver to your domain, install an SSL certificate, and connect to your site using FTP for future uploads. FTP is a faster, alternative way to upload files to your website instead of your webhost's file upload system; programs like WinSCP or FileZilla can upload using FTP for you.

if you wanna learn PHP and SQL and really get into webdev, i wrote a forum post at Mysidia Adoptables here, tho it's sorted geared at the mysidia script library itself (Mysidia Adoptables is a free virtual pet site script, tiny community. go check it out!)

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file storage & backups

a problem i have run into a lot in my past like, 20 years of internet usage (/OLD) is that a site that is free, has a small community, and maybe sounds too good/cheap to be true, has a higher chance of going under. sometimes this happens to bigger sites like tinypic, photobucket, and imageshack, but for every site like that, there's like a million of baby sites that died with people's files. host your files/websites on a well-known site, or at least back it up and expect it to go under!

i used to host my images on something called "imgjoe" during the tinypic/imageshack era, it lasted about 3 years, and i lost everything hosted on there. more recently, komaedalovemail had its webpages hosted here on tumblr, and tumblr changed its UI so custom pages don't allow javascript, which prevented any new pages from being edited/added. another test site i made a couple years ago on hostinger's site called 000webhost went under/became a part of hostinger's paid-only plans, so i had to look very quickly for a new host or i'd lose my test site.

if you're broke like me, looking into physical file storage can be expensive. anything related to computers has gone through baaaaad inflation due to crypto, which again, I Freaquing Hate, and is killing mother nature. STOP MINING CRYPTO this is gonna be you in 1 year

...um i digress. ANYWAYS, you can archive your websites, which'll save your static assets on The Internet Archive (which could use your lovely donations right now btw), and/or archive.today (also taking donations). having a webhost service with lots of storage and automatic backups can be nice if you're worried about file loss or corruption, or just don't have enough storage on your computer at home!

if you're buying physical storage, be it hard drive, solid state drive, USB stick, whatever... get an actual brand like Western Digital or Seagate and don't fall for those cheap ones on Amazon that claim to have 8,000GB for $40 or you're going to spend 13 days in windows command prompt trying to repair the disk and thenthe power is gong to go out in your shit ass neighvborhood and you have to run it tagain and then Windows 10 tryes to update and itresets the /chkdsk agin while you're awayfrom town nad you're goig to start crytypting and kts just hnot going tot br the same aever agai nikt jus not ggiog to be the saeme

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further webhosting options

there are other Advanced options when it comes to web hosting. for example, you can physically own and run your own webserver, e.g. with a computer or a raspberry pi. r/selfhosted might be a good place if you're looking into that!

if you know or are learning PHP, SQL, and other server-side languages, you can host a webserver on your computer using something like XAMPP (Apache, MariaDB, PHP, & Perl) with minimal storage space (the latest version takes up a little under 1gb on my computer rn). then, you can test your website without needing an internet connection or worrying about finding a hosting plan that can support your project until you've set everything up!

there's also many PHP frameworks which can be useful for beginners and wizards of the web alike. WordPress is one which you're no doubt familiar with for creating blog posts, and Bluehost is a decent hosting service tailored to WordPress specifically. there's full frameworks like Laravel, CakePHP, and Slim, which will usually handle security, user authentication, web routing, and database interactions that you can build off of. Laravel in particular is noob-friendly imo, and is used by a large populace, and it has many tutorials, example sites built with it, and specific app frameworks.

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addendum: storing sensitive data

if you decide to host a server-side website, you'll most likely have a login/out functionality (user authentication), and have to store things like usernames, passwords, and e-mails. PLEASE don't launch your website until you're sure your site security is up to snuff!

when trying to check if your data is hackable... It's time to get into the Mind of a Hacker. OWASP has some good cheat sheets that list some of the bigger security concerns and how to mitigate them as a site owner, and you can look up filtered security issues on the Exploit Database.

this is kind of its own topic if you're coding a PHP website from scratch; most frameworks securely store sensitive data for you already. if you're writing your own PHP framework, refer to php.net's security articles and this guide on writing an .htaccess file.

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but. i be on that phone... :(

ok one thing i see about straw.page that seems nice is that it advertises the ability to make webpages from your phone. WYSIWYG editors in general are more capable of this. i only started looking into this yesterday, but there ARE source code editor apps for mobile devices! if you have a webhosting plan, you can download/upload assets/code from your phone and whatnot and code on the go. i downloaded Runecode for iphone. it might suck ass to keep typing those brackets.... we'll see..... but sometimes you're stuck in the car and you're like damn i wanna code my site GRRRR I WANNA CODE MY SITE!!!

↑ code written in Runecode, then uploaded to Hostinger. Runecode didn't tell me i forgot a semicolon but Hostinger did... i guess you can code from your webhost's file uploader on mobile but i don't trust them since they tend not to autosave or prompt you before closing, and if the wifi dies idk what happens to your code.

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ANYWAYS! HAPPY WEBSITE BUILDING~! HOPE THIS HELPS~!~!~!

-Mod 12 @eeyes

[stjohnstarling]

do you have any basic pointers for writers who might want to try out doing a serialised story online but have no idea where to start?

I'm hesitant to give too much general advice because every situation is specific - what you should do depends on what you're writing, your goals with your book, and where you're at with regards to community, connections, and followers. There isn't a lot of one-size-fits-all advice I can give that isn't me making up scenarios and speculating about them. That being said I can point you towards a couple platforms.

I serialize my novels via a newsletter hosted on Substack, though I have VERY mixed feelings about Substack as a platform. I am a fan of newsletters in general though. They have some significant benefits - for instance you can download and keep your subscriber list, so you don't have the problem of being trapped on any individual platform. They're free below certain subscriber thresholds, however most services do cost money once you get a large enough audience, they can be a bit involved to set up, and you have to do the heavy lifting of getting people to subscribe. Off the top of my head, newsletter hosts include: Beehiiv, Buttondown, Ghost, Substack, Mailchimp, GoDaddy, and ConvertKit, but there’s loads more out there.

I am aware of Wattpad, Ream, RoyalRoad, and Radish as serial platforms but have not explored them and cannot speak to how they work. Some of those cater to specific kinds of books. Wattpad is the biggest and most general one.

If you consider your book broadly "fannish" you can serialize it on AO3 (it's a grey area, I would read that page before deciding.)

You can also always host it on your own website and link to there from whatever social media you use. I'm less familiar with web hosts though. (Neocities is popular but you'd have to want to play with HTML. If you don't want to do that, maybe Wordpress?)

I hear a lot of people talking about feeling abandoned and ignored when making the jump from fanfiction to original writing. So, breaking my own rule immediately, (you can see I'm making an assumption here based on this being Tumblr) one piece of advice I'll give is that if you're starting from scratch BUT you're in a fandom, writing something original that still appeals to other fans is a good way of bridging the gap between fanfiction and original writing - e.g. if you're into OFMD and you write an original novel about gay pirates, you're a Good Omens fan and you write a novel about angels and demons, etc.

Oops that ended up super long. Followers let me know if there are any platforms I missed!

[brightlotusmoon]

Here's an update on fanfiction dot net going down for several days. For those not familar, FFn was inaccessible due to DNS issues for a couple of days. The site went on Twitter/X to explain that web host GoDaddy is to blame stating their site was taken down without explanation even after they have followed and reviewed GoDaddy's request to remove stories that they find violate their policies regarding child abuse.

Fast forward to today where FFn provided an update. The site has been restored but they are now claiming that GoDaddy has used Al to monitor the stories on the site for they have received another take down notification for another story. FFn has reviewed the story where the main characters is a 17 year old (male) and a female animal-tronic robot. They agree to take down the story as it violates their M rating qualifications but disagrees on child abuse being present. They have now begun the process of transferring domain register from GoDaddy.

As someone who moved from FFn to A03 after years on the site, I highly recommend making back-up of your favorite stories since you never know when they could be taken away. I have seen great reviews about fichub.I have also seen others save the links on the Internet Archive.

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