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Making a website

ShadeShade Registered User regular
edited December 2006 in Help / Advice Forum
I'm googling as I type but I thought I would asks for some opinions to good hosting for a domain with out ads very small amouont of data, just text and a few pics. Any suggestions?

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  • ffordefforde Registered User regular
    edited December 2006
    How about Blogger?

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  • JasconiusJasconius sword criminal mad onlineRegistered User regular
    edited December 2006
    Or googlepages..

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  • ShadeShade Registered User regular
    edited December 2006
    fforde wrote:
    How about Blogger?

    looking to make an actual web site

    can't have www.stuff.something.com

    just www.stuff.com with email to go with it

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  • PheezerPheezer Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited December 2006
    It won't be free, then.

    1 & 1 are pretty reliable and pretty cheap. Their domain registration is REALLY cheap, actually. www.1and1.com

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  • ffordefforde Registered User regular
    edited December 2006
    pheezer FD wrote:
    It won't be free, then.

    1 & 1 are pretty reliable and pretty cheap. Their domain registration is REALLY cheap, actually. www.1and1.com

    You would also need to find a place to host your files. When you buy the URL you are not buying hard drive space to store anything, you are basically just buying the right to point the URL to an IP address.

    You might be able to pull off using your own domain name with Blogger or something though. It is worth checking. If you cant, you'll have to buy some webspace from a company like this.

    EDIT: To have your own mail server though you'd probably have to go with an actual web host.

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  • JasconiusJasconius sword criminal mad onlineRegistered User regular
    edited December 2006
    I had 1and1 wasn't much of a fan. You can only pay in 3 month blocks, and their control panel features aren't as neato.


    http://www.siteground.com

    Has been nothing but joy for me, has alot of cool features like quick-installs of certain softwares like PHPBB automatically and such. The database address' aren't some random string of letters and numbers like 1and1 does either.


    My favorite pasttime of 1and1 hosting was trying to remember that a3389582.something.com was where my SQL database was located.

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    this is a discord of mostly PA people interested in fighting games: https://discord.gg/DZWa97d5rz

    we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other
  • ShadeShade Registered User regular
    edited December 2006
    Jasconius wrote:
    I had 1and1 wasn't much of a fan. You can only pay in 3 month blocks, and their control panel features aren't as neato.


    http://www.siteground.com

    Has been nothing but joy for me, has alot of cool features like quick-installs of certain softwares like PHPBB automatically and such. The database address' aren't some random string of letters and numbers like 1and1 does either.


    My favorite pasttime of 1and1 hosting was trying to remember that a3389582.something.com was where my SQL database was located.

    I'll check out siteground. any others you guys suggest??And I don't mind paying, the site is for a business a family member is going to start.

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  • JasconiusJasconius sword criminal mad onlineRegistered User regular
    edited December 2006
    also, Siteground supports virtually everything short of windows only stuff like .net

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    this is a discord of mostly PA people interested in fighting games: https://discord.gg/DZWa97d5rz

    we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other
  • ShadeShade Registered User regular
    edited December 2006
    How would I go about hosting it myslf?What do I have to do just to get a site name?

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  • JasconiusJasconius sword criminal mad onlineRegistered User regular
    edited December 2006
    A computer that you can have turned on all day and all night, Apache, and then you need to set up the domain to point to that computers IP address.

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    this is a discord of mostly PA people interested in fighting games: https://discord.gg/DZWa97d5rz

    we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other
  • JasconiusJasconius sword criminal mad onlineRegistered User regular
    edited December 2006
    http://www.dns2go.com/

    A solution to the domain name thing.

    Four years ago that service was free. I'm not sure if it still is, but that's what you would want I think.

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    this is a discord of mostly PA people interested in fighting games: https://discord.gg/DZWa97d5rz

    we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other
  • ShadeShade Registered User regular
    edited December 2006
    Jasconius wrote:
    http://www.dns2go.com/

    A solution to the domain name thing.

    Four years ago that service was free. I'm not sure if it still is, but that's what you would want I think.

    nope not free anymore, so I'm thinking it'll be cheaper to have someone else host it? I know just enough to see over the water but not enough to swim :(

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