I just contracted for my first DNN site with one of the more popular hosting companies but after over a week, all I can get out of them is "thanks for letting us know about the problem" when I told them I couldn't FTP a file or connect via a network connection.  I am on vacation right now, and was planning to get in there and start working on it without the usual weekend distractions but here I sit browsing YouTube and tweaking my HTML and styles locally waiting for the day I can actually use them. Grrrrr.

I am looking for a starter site - just getting my feet wet with this and don't want to put it on the company servers until I know what I am doing.  Not looking for a commercial setup, will probably only have a couple of tabs and modules.  Any suggestions?

Thanks.

JoAnn

You can host with us for free and kick the tires.

I went ahead and set it up on my laptop for now.  If I am still having trouble with the other host when I need to get it online for the boss to dink around with (we are looking for a .NET CMS), if I still can't get what I need from the current host (finally got FTP connectivity today but the site is slow - when it isn't erroring out), I will definitely look at moving it to one of those recommended.  I found out thanks to an error message that the server is actually running on XP.  I don't think I've ever heard of an XP being used as a real webserver, let alone in a shared hosting environment.  The tech support guy tried to get me to extend the contract!