Host website thru mobileMe

[bmorris]

I love mobileMe for over-the-air syncing and Find My iPhone.
I use it sometimes to share .zip files as well.
But for the most part, I barely use my iDisk space.
I use about 5GB out of 20GB to sync my documents between my Mac Pro and Macbook Pro.

I pay about $100/yr for hosting my portfolio website, on top of my typical $50/yr for MobileMe (through eBay).

If I wanted to transfer my website to be hosted on my MobileMe, and paid for my domain name for about $10/yr, is that possible?

I would store my website files (about 550MB) on my iDisk but have my personal domain (http://www.brandonmorris.com) read it using the Personal Domain setting in MobileMe?
Would I have to use iWeb to upload it correctly?

The only real benefit I would loose is my personal email (findme@brandonmorris.com).
Does anyone know the best deal for email hosting?

So instead of paying $100 for hosting, domain, and email.
I was looking at just paying for domain name and email service (maybe $50?).
And using my iDisk to host the files.

 

[Lucky736]

Bueller?

 

[d21mike]

Wirelessly posted (iPhone 4: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Mobile/8B117 Safari/6531.22.7)

You do not need iWeb to manage your site. There are lots of options for domain registration and email, I use GoDaddy but you should shop around. You can have your email forwarded to your me.com email address or just do your email on GoDaddy or wherever you choose.

 

[meptik]

If I wanted to transfer my website to be hosted on my MobileMe, and paid for my domain name for about $10/yr, is that possible?

I would store my website files (about 550MB) on my iDisk but have my personal domain (http://www.brandonmorris.com) read it using the Personal Domain setting in MobileMe?

Yes. I'm doing this, works fine. You just setup a CNAME entry for your domain pointing at web.me.com and enter that (sub)domain in the Personal Domain setting over at MobileMe.

Would I have to use iWeb to upload it correctly?

Not sure. You might need to upload your site in a specific folder structure on your iDisk.

The only real benefit I would loose is my personal email (findme@brandonmorris.com).
Does anyone know the best deal for email hosting?

I'm using Google Apps Standard, which is free. I use it just for e-mail and calendar, Google Docs and Sites are also included.