From: "Geo." 

"John Beckett"  wrote in message
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> a name to an IP, it sends two DNS queries for an IPv6 address. After that
> it figures it may as well try IPv4 (just in case!). I've seen Windows do
> much morre silly things.

Yet another reason to disable IPv6 if you aren't using it.

> For example, if it's free or under $10/year, I don't see how it could be
> reliable - hence Geo's question about whether you mind if it goes offline
> for two weeks.

Most are fairly reliable and from his answers I don't see a problem with
using a free or really cheap service at least as a place to start. But I
should mention when you do this, these places don't keep backups so you
need to keep a copy of your site for when something happens.

Geo.

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