what do i do

hey all, im new here and i have afreelancer that did my website and now he wants to charge me $30 to host my site and i know i can get better deals he says i need a host that has .Net and SQQL can someone help me out here, this is his e-mail message

thanks in advance..............
Good find. That is extremely cheap .NET/SQL Server hosting. Looks like you get more disk space and data transfer too.

To bad I can't find any specifics about the .NET and SQL on their site. Like what version of the .NET framework are they running? How much database space do you get? They also don't have an 800 number and by my guess it looks like their area code is quite possibly in San Diego. I know it sounds ridiculous, but I actually don't have a cell phone.

I sure hope you get an outgoing SMTP server so that orders can be sent to you by email when they happen. I have this issue on my web server such that email address with yahoo and hotmail no longer accept emails being sent from my server because I don't have a static IP address so they get treated like spam. It didn't used to be this way, but that's what big companies have done to fight the evils of spam. Anyway, if this host doesn't point your domain name to a static IP address and there is no outgoing SMTP server your website will not be able to notify you of orders purchased.

The other host I was looking at had a really cool and convenient interface for managing the web server, and the SQL server database, this one doesn't seem to have anything of the sort. Plus the other guys were Microsoft certified. But, you get what you pay for.

So, if you want to go with this host that is fine, however if you want me to manage it I still have to charge more than they are charging ($20 bucks per/month). If you want to set it all up and manage it yourself and pay only $10 bucks per month that is fine too. I could just build you the site, give you the code, the DLL and give you the database scripts to set up the SQL and database tables yourself. Let me know.

Also, by looking at this site I was reminded of something your going to need that I had overlooked which is a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate for a secure connection when people purchase orders (unless PayPal handles this for you). Nobody in their right mind is going to buy something over the internet without a secure connection. Looks like these guys are selling them pretty cheap ($30 bucks)."