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Post by SiDaFaLiCkNo on Feb 16, 2007 22:54:34 GMT
Does anyone know of a place with some good free hosting. Right now im using freewbs and it sucks.
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Post by Mikrondel on Feb 17, 2007 10:05:00 GMT
Hosting at home is an option. Not very effective if you're on dialup, and needs a computer to be running to service requests.
If you're still reading, Apache is what I'd recommend.
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Post by earlofqb on Feb 18, 2007 10:51:24 GMT
I think s/he means "host my site on a webserver that isn't mine", in which case I'd recommend doing a Google search for "free webhosting". You have to take your unique expectations into consideration before deciding (web design experience, expected bandwidth, expected total size of site, expected largest upload to site (media, etc), number of hits per month, etc). To decide this, use the "programmer's rule": double the expectations and you should be halfway there (if you can't find a site that will host under those hefty expectations, go with a "+20% rule" instead). As far as home webhosting, I agree with Mik, get a cheap old PC, gut it and throw in a decent hard drive running Linux, hook it up to an always-on connection (preferably broadband), get some server software (ex. Apache. It's free (I think)), and a web design software (FrontPage, Dreamweaver, etc. You could even use Notepad if you were especially adventurous), slap it together (take it easy though ) and test it (multiple times from multiple locations, just to be sure). You'll have absolute control (with the exception of a URL desire, in which case you could strike a deal with the local ISP (just need that bloody URL and DNS)), just point your friends to your IP and find the subnet IP for your server (although possibly illegal under your ISP's TOS. Check first).
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Post by Ildûrest on Feb 18, 2007 21:27:12 GMT
(ex. Apache. It's free (I think)) Of course it's free! Surely you're aware that the MOST POPULAR server software is Free Open Source Software. And it works on Linux, Windows and more. web design software (FrontPage, Dreamweaver, etc. You could even use Notepad if you were especially adventurous) I think I heard that FrontPage is dead and buried. Notepad is my preferred option but requires quite a bit of experience. You'll have absolute control (with the exception of a URL desire, in which case you could strike a deal with the local ISP (just need that bloody URL and DNS)), just point your friends to your IP and find the subnet IP for your server (although possibly illegal under your ISP's TOS. Check first). I think you've confused domain name with URL. A domain name must be registered and someone (possibly your ISP) must do the DNS hosting for it. DynDNS is a free way to have a "domain name" (actually a subdomain; there will be a suffix like mysite.dyndns.com) that always points to you even if your IP address is dynamic. There is no "subnet IP"; if you're thinking of "subnet mask" that's not relevant for this.
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Post by earlofqb on Feb 19, 2007 3:55:17 GMT
I got pawned.
Networking's not really my thing, just one of those "from what I read from (apparantly ill-informed) people (or n00bs, if you will) out-and-about".
Sounds interesting (I might even kick in some Apache on a flash drive and make a mobile file server (friend of mine did it using the same DynDNS deal there), ought to be fun(ny to look at, an entire flash drive dedicated to a "proof of concept experiment")).
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Post by Mikrondel on Feb 19, 2007 12:15:00 GMT
One other thing, a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is a protocol, host, and file path, such as 123.45.67.89/somewhere/file.zipor www.google.com/(implying index.html, I think) The host can be an IP address or hostname. Hostnames can be resolved via DNS (a name resolution protocol which on the internet used for domain names like 'www.burntfaceman.com', but can also be used for host names on your LAN if you run your own local DNS server, like 'mycomputer') or other methods... I think NetBEUI has some form of name resoltuion, and there's also WINS which is some kind of Windows name server. Anyway, point is - mapping of a fairly easy to type/remember text string into an IP address. That's what hostnames are for. Earl, you could probably do a wikipedia trawl of the terms I mentioned above and come out knowing more than me. Might end up like this though :-) xkcd.com/c214.html
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Post by lete on Jun 8, 2007 9:27:45 GMT
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