Member Account, plus upgrades?? - Page 3

jolycu · 1 Dec 2003, 12:52 PM

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Originally posted by DianeB

All this information!! WOW, my head is spinning.

Okies, now on to the next question,,,,,,,,

'IF' (and I'm saying 'if' here), I were to purchase a domain name, in aspects of drawing new contacts (customers) in, how would people find their way to it to see what coupons I have to offer?

Diane

Diane, I think what you would need to do is set up a website. Once you register a domain, you can direct traffic to it from anywhere on the web. Say you have some free webspace with your isp, and it would be something like yourspaceATyourisp.com. Someone could type that into their web browser and get to your website. But, if you registered a name such as dianescoupontraders.com as mentioned earlier, you would set it up to direct the traffic to your website at yourspaceATyourisp.com and it would look more professional. If you move your website to another server, you can go back and direct the traffic to it very easily. You could also direct all the email received at your website to your account at Fastmail as others have posted.
Jolycu

DianeB · 2 Dec 2003, 12:50 AM

ANOTHER Quickie ??

With a 'Full' membership, if I purchase a domain, in order to have the email for that domain forwarded to my FM mailbox, am I correct in assuming it is an additional $1.00 PER MONTH fee with FM?

(Thanks to ALL of you wonderful folks that have been educating me here!!)

Diane

usmaverick · 2 Dec 2003, 02:35 AM

Forwarding to a FM address with any of the account levels doesn't cost extra. The $1/month (+ $.25/month per address) extra Full account charge only applies if FM hosts your domain. There are advantages to doing this, though I just use e-mail forwarding with a FM Member account.

GoDaddy includes e-mail forwarding for 100 aliases (e.g., dianeATdomainnameDOTcom) if you register a domain name with them.

robert@fm · 2 Dec 2003, 02:51 AM

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Originally posted by NumberSix
Oh, and I know others have already answered, but I can't resist giving the simplest and most useful answer to your other question: a gigabyte (GB) is 1000 times bigger than a megabyte (MB).

It's actually 1024 times bigger...

snsh · 2 Dec 2003, 03:08 AM

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It's actually 1024 times bigger...

The way I've seen it is
1 GB = 1024 MB
1 gigabyte = 1000 megabytes
because giga means billion not 2^30.

robert@fm · 2 Dec 2003, 04:01 AM

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Originally posted by snsh
The way I've seen it is
1 GB = 1024 MB
1 gigabyte = 1000 megabytes
because giga means billion not 2^30.

But in computing "mega" has always meant 2^20, so it's logical that "giga" should in the same context mean 2^30...

(edit) In any case, since "mega" in computing is 2^20, if "giga" is 10^9 (BTW, to Europeans a "billion" is 10^12 — "bi-million"), then a gigabyte is 953.7 times a megabyte, not 1000 times...

pwb · 2 Dec 2003, 05:00 AM

I think that generally Mega meens 10^6 and Giga 10^9. In computer hardware things work out more nicely using the power series of 2 and so instead of KB, MB & GB being 10^3, 10^6 and 10^9 respectively they are 2^10, 2^20 and 2^30.

I believe that robert@fm is right in that 1024 is technically more accurate. But when precision is not necessary 1000 makes the numbers a lot nicer

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If you're just a beginner than using 1000MB = 1GB shouldn't do you any harm.

Just my two cents, as people seem to say.

2 Dec 2003, 12:50 AM	#32
DianeB Cornerstone of the Community Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: USA-South Carolina Posts: 503	ANOTHER Quickie ?? With a 'Full' membership, if I purchase a domain, in order to have the email for that domain forwarded to my FM mailbox, am I correct in assuming it is an additional $1.00 PER MONTH fee with FM? (Thanks to ALL of you wonderful folks that have been educating me here!!) Diane

2 Dec 2003, 02:35 AM	#33
usmaverick Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 38	Forwarding to a FM address with any of the account levels doesn't cost extra. The $1/month (+ $.25/month per address) extra Full account charge only applies if FM hosts your domain. There are advantages to doing this, though I just use e-mail forwarding with a FM Member account. GoDaddy includes e-mail forwarding for 100 aliases (e.g., dianeATdomainnameDOTcom) if you register a domain name with them.

2 Dec 2003, 05:00 AM	#37
pwb Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: York, UK Posts: 101	I think that generally Mega meens 10^6 and Giga 10^9. In computer hardware things work out more nicely using the power series of 2 and so instead of KB, MB & GB being 10^3, 10^6 and 10^9 respectively they are 2^10, 2^20 and 2^30. I believe that robert@fm is right in that 1024 is technically more accurate. But when precision is not necessary 1000 makes the numbers a lot nicer . If you're just a beginner than using 1000MB = 1GB shouldn't do you any harm. Just my two cents, as people seem to say.