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Geek Culture / Can someone please tell me how to get my own website

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Scraggle
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Posted: 24th Jan 2004 18:20
I am completely in the dark about website hosting.

I am fairly confident that I could create my own website and have it working on my own PC, but I have no idea how to get it online.

I do know that I need a domain name and a host but I don't know how to get them.

Please help.

GOD exists and his name is Jonny Wilkinson

Damokles
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Posted: 24th Jan 2004 18:24 Edited at: 24th Jan 2004 18:24
http://www.freewebs.com if you don't use PHP.

And I am searching a place for a PHP website, anybody knows a good one ?

"Begin at the beginning, and go on till you come to the end: then stop." - Lewis Carroll
John H
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Posted: 24th Jan 2004 18:55 Edited at: 24th Jan 2004 18:55
www.dbspot.com is free (HAHAHA BEAT YOU TO IT JIMMY!!!)

I use

www.vapournet.com

20 bucks a YEAR and everything your heart could desire

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Posted: 24th Jan 2004 19:03
Heres a list of hosts:

>> http://www.dbspot.com/Free
>> http://www.dbforums.co.uk/Free
>> http://www.darkbasic.com/$5.00 a month (or year)
>> http://www.freewebs.com/I think it is free
>> http://www.tripod.lycos.comFree, $7.99 or domain

That is all I can think of for now.
Chris K
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Posted: 24th Jan 2004 19:24
Quote: ">> http://www.freewebs.com/I think it is free"


That's a classic

Scraggle
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Posted: 24th Jan 2004 19:49
Thanks

I've looked at freewebs before and they require your domain name to be www.freewebs.com/yourdomain

How can I get www.mydomain.com

I don't mind paying - I just don't know how to do it.

GOD exists and his name is Jonny Wilkinson

Ian T
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Posted: 24th Jan 2004 20:17
There are a number of sites that allow you to buy domains which you can redirect to your site; some service providers can do it for you at extra cost (vapournet might have it by now).

Freewebs is pretty awful-- you can only upload 1 file at a time, 50 file limit, and very slow servers.

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Posted: 24th Jan 2004 20:20 Edited at: 24th Jan 2004 20:21
Go with vapournet.. Definatly its cheap reliable and easy

that and mike is a nice guy

Youll get what you want and still have money in your pocket
John H
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Posted: 24th Jan 2004 20:33
www.gkg.net is what I use for domain. 8.95 a year, Mike from Vapournet recommended it

Mike is a VERY nice guy He helped me out so much getting my website up and running. Id rate Vapournets customer support 11 out of 10!!!

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QuothTheRaven
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Posted: 24th Jan 2004 20:45 Edited at: 24th Jan 2004 21:43
Scraggle, what you have to do, simply, is find a company that will host your website.

They'll tell you how much webspace you get (how many megabytes you can put online) and how much bandwidth you get, (how much information your website can send, so if you have 5 GB of bandwidth per month your visitors can download up to 5 GB of information before your monthly bandwidth runs out and the site closes till the next month)

When you learn that, and compare price vs bandwidth vs webspace with other hosts, you decide which host you want. They'll have a place where you sign up, you give them all of your information and it's charged to whatever credit card you're using, and the monthly fee activates. You tell them what domain name you want, and then you'll get it!

Then they'll give you something called a control panel. This is a place, that has a web address, like www.yoursite.com/control panel, which requires a password and acount name to get into (they'll provide it for you).

In your control panel, you can upload your webpage. That means, create an html document on your computer, then upload it to the control panel. There will be buttons that let you do this.

If a visitor goes to your page, it will show them index.html, which should be the name of the file of your main page. So create a file on your computer called index.html, which should be your main page layout, and upload it. Then you have a website! yay?!

The host company that I use is [href]www.anhosting.com [/href], but I'd compare prices with other people first

Scraggle
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Posted: 24th Jan 2004 20:57
Thanks QTR that's helped me a lot and thanks to everyone else for the site recommendations, I really appreciate it.

I will start comparing them now but if anyone else has a site they wish to recommend please let me know.

Thanks again
TKF15H
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Posted: 24th Jan 2004 21:47
If you don't mind spanish, try
http://www.miarroba.com
50 megs
1 MySQL database
PHP support
Unlimited Bandwidth
FREE

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Because DEC 25 = OCT 31
QuothTheRaven
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Posted: 24th Jan 2004 21:48
The best prices I've found are at [href]www.utopiahosting.com[/href] , but I've never used them, so I couldn't tell you.

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Posted: 24th Jan 2004 21:51
Vapournet (STILL )


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Posted: 24th Jan 2004 23:03
Do what I did. Got domain for $7.95 at GoDaddy.com
Then got unlimited bandwidth/space hosting on ebay for $5/year

http://www.dbspot.com/ - Free subdomain hosting. Unlimited space/transfer. It's nice, I like it, you should too!

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