Do You Know: All About Web Site Hosting

ecommerce-guide.com ^ | April 12, 2005 | Vangie Beal

[armymarinemom]

I'm still mulling over what is going to happen with Adobe acquiring Macromedia.

[Military family member]

Your best bet with domain registration is to pay as far in advance as you can afford. I have my own site for my business, and I sell space for ads. I also allowed a local not-for-profit group to post a banner. When the group failed to pay the reregistration fee, an out-of-country porn peddler bought the domain and replaced the content.

Since then, I try to keep my registration two to three years ahead.

Be warned: there are many sites out there where you can pay a nominal fee in the hopes that someone fails to pay a re-registration fee. Once that happens, you are sunk.

[Citizen Tom Paine]

I liked the article. I have considered a web page for years, but never have made the final lunge. I was willing to pay $10-20/month.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Be warned: there are many sites out there where you can pay a nominal fee in the hopes that someone fails to pay a re-registration fee.

All my lapsed domain names at godaddy.com are still available.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Why not? Because you may be web conversant doesn't mean that everyone (or even most) are.

Very good info. Thanks for posting.

What kills me though, is when I wanted to find out about this very subject, I needed only to use Google and my own two eyeballs to read and research the subject. I was a Pro in a couple of hours and had a domain registered and a website hosted and running in a couple of evenings work. I didn't stop to ask anyone. The information was there for the taking.
I am amazed at how reticent some people are to do the research and just...learn. Do a search on FR for the word 'spyware' and read the threads. Sooo many folks who have this living, breathing encyclopedia at their fingertips just don't know how to use it and are sometimes afraid to. It is fun though, educating people who pop in to ask how to do this that or the other thing when their PCs hiccup.

[general_re]

It's important to remember that once you have registered a domain name, you can change hosts whenever you want...

-Snort-. Oh, yeah, sure - changing hosts is easy. Try changing the registrar on an .org domain sometime, if you want some real fun and games.

[Theo]

Frontpage ... have made playing with my puter a thing of joy:)

Whew. Never thought I'd see someone actually *enjoy* using a Microsoft product.... :-)

*My* joys are BBEdit and Photoshop. :-D

[Tribune7]

I thought it was interesting.

[Military family member]

That's fine, but if you run a commercial site, beware!

[Dubya]

Good info. Thanks.

[Gandalf_The_Gray]

When you get to the part about hosting your own website on your own computer, that is, you are your own ISP; drop me a Freepmail. I know how to do most of the software part, Apache2, JAVA, PERL, PHP & SQL are all available and FREE too, I need to know how one goes about moving from "localhost" to ISP, although I suspect it goes beyond registering a "domain" 'cuz you have to tie down the four number groups of the actual physical address, yes?

Regards,
GtG

PS I think your article is a great idea, keep 'em coming!

[Vision Thing]

$1.95/month web hosting at http://www.geekhosting.com.

Wow! Thanks for the tip.

I'm leaning towards Yahoo! Small Business for website hosting. The main reasons: They offer PayPal buttons; gigs of space & data transfer/month.

I'd like to offer the PayPal button to those who want to purchase stuff from me.

Do you know of a way to use PayPal buttons on a site through geekhosting? If so, I just may choose one of their mid-level plans.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Appreciate the post -- bookmarked!

[jokar]

Good information Thanks you.

[lonewacko_dot_com]

I'm currently using tronictech.com for some sites. $6/mo for shared IP, unlimited domains/parked/forward/MySQL. The catch is you have to pay per incident if you want support.

See webhostingtalk.com for many discussions about hosting.

[Capt. Tom]

I see some folks here are not happy with this piece, but as a struggling writer who knows NOTHING about this stuff and is trying to put up a rudimentary web site, I'm glad for the info, and thank you.

Since domain names were mentioned I will give you some suggestions.

First of all you may get a static web IP address for your website let's say it is http://64.226.234.31. If a person put this into the address bar above where http://www.freerepublic.com/etc bla blah blah is appearing on your screen right now, it would bring people to your website

You might also get a dynamic IP address like dkwolf.web.yourwebhost.com winch would also bring people directly to your website.

You do not need a domain name to operate a website on the internet.

again..You do not need a domain name to operate a website on the internet.

Either the static or dynamic IP address mentioned above will bring up your website. But remembering and telling people your static numerical or wordy dynamic address is inconvient,and hard to remember.

A domain name name such as Darkwolf.com or .net or .org etc. might be something you like. But you have to check and make sure it is available from your domain name server.

Make sure you, and not the web host, own the domain name . Some webhosts will get you the domain name as part of a deal. If you decide to leave they may keep the name for themselves. Or if you had words over their poor service they might be slow in getting it to you when you leave. If you own the name you can move around freely.

[F-117A]

bump

[infocats]

Thanks for the comments. If y'all have no objection, I'll continue the series off site because:

1] It will be easier for me.

2] I haven't been able to post images to FREEP for the past hour (probably because I'm doing something stupid...again)!

Note: there is nothing posted as of yet. You should get a 404 Page Not Found error but I'll try to get something useful up within the next day or so.

If interested, please bookmark the page and check back periodically as there will be no further pings.

[Darkwolf]

Thanks for the info--I didn't know about that. But then, I still don't know where to put the brake fluid and oil into this stupid machine... ;)

[Dubya]

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