Minjin
Flashlight Enthusiast
I've had a website in the past. It was some simple HTML with some pics on a free host. That was pretty easy.
Now I want a real host so I can have more space and most importantly for me, allow hot linking. And it seems kind of hard.
Step one is to get myself a domain name right? Or should I get myself a web host first? On the recommendation of a fellow board user, I signed up here: http://bsdwebhosting.net/index.html because its super cheap and seems like it would be perfect for my small needs. Thats what I thought at least. I signed up, only to find out that he requires a domain name. There goes my dreams of cheap. A bunch of numbers rather than a domain name would have been just fine for me since I'll be linking most of the time. So I guess I need a domain name. Now, there are a gazillion and one places that register domain names out there. They seem to have some widely varying prices. Should I just pick the cheapest or what?
Assume I somehow figured out the above step. Now we get into forwarding and stuff I really don't get. Lets say I get my domain name and want to forward it to a site at that freebsd host. Why is it that after people are "forwarded" to my site, the name in the address bar will change? Isn't that the whole point of domain names? There's a computer somewhere that knows that XXX name = XXXX address so it directs you there and still displays the XXX name, right? It seems as though people want to charge extra for forwarding with masking so that it works the way its supposed to.
Can anyone break this stuff down for me? My needs are small. Current site is about 15megs and thats mainly pictures of my hobby stuff. I don't plan on getting many hits so I don't need much transfer.
This seems like a good deal if I just wanted the name and then transfer: http://www.targetdomain.com/
This place seems like a good deal for registering and hosting: http://www.1dni.com/
And suggestions would be great. I've even considered just hosting my own site on a spare computer here at home. However, I'm on cable modem and there are apparently work-arounds that have to be done that I'm probably not capable of doing.
Thanks.
Mark
Now I want a real host so I can have more space and most importantly for me, allow hot linking. And it seems kind of hard.
Step one is to get myself a domain name right? Or should I get myself a web host first? On the recommendation of a fellow board user, I signed up here: http://bsdwebhosting.net/index.html because its super cheap and seems like it would be perfect for my small needs. Thats what I thought at least. I signed up, only to find out that he requires a domain name. There goes my dreams of cheap. A bunch of numbers rather than a domain name would have been just fine for me since I'll be linking most of the time. So I guess I need a domain name. Now, there are a gazillion and one places that register domain names out there. They seem to have some widely varying prices. Should I just pick the cheapest or what?
Assume I somehow figured out the above step. Now we get into forwarding and stuff I really don't get. Lets say I get my domain name and want to forward it to a site at that freebsd host. Why is it that after people are "forwarded" to my site, the name in the address bar will change? Isn't that the whole point of domain names? There's a computer somewhere that knows that XXX name = XXXX address so it directs you there and still displays the XXX name, right? It seems as though people want to charge extra for forwarding with masking so that it works the way its supposed to.
Can anyone break this stuff down for me? My needs are small. Current site is about 15megs and thats mainly pictures of my hobby stuff. I don't plan on getting many hits so I don't need much transfer.
This seems like a good deal if I just wanted the name and then transfer: http://www.targetdomain.com/
This place seems like a good deal for registering and hosting: http://www.1dni.com/
And suggestions would be great. I've even considered just hosting my own site on a spare computer here at home. However, I'm on cable modem and there are apparently work-arounds that have to be done that I'm probably not capable of doing.
Thanks.
Mark