Internet Domains
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Internet Domains
Hi All
I'm very inexperienced with the internet, but I'd like to set up my own website. I would like it ideally if I could run it from my laptop at home. Can anyone help me here, I want to register an address and make it as easy and cheap as possible.
Many thanks
LJ
I'm very inexperienced with the internet, but I'd like to set up my own website. I would like it ideally if I could run it from my laptop at home. Can anyone help me here, I want to register an address and make it as easy and cheap as possible.
Many thanks
LJ
Joined: Nov 1999
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From: London
You need two things...
1) A host - a company that will physically host the site on their machines for which you will pay a monthly fee depending on how server space it takes up and much traffic the site generates.
2) A domain - this is just the unique name of the site which you will need to pay to get registered. This needs to be renewed periodically (every year?).
ISPs usually offer a small amout of web server space to their users so if you just want to set up a few pages that are unlikely to generate a lot of traffic you could use them and not have to pay for a host. And if you don't mind what the site's address looks like you wouldn't even need to pay for a domain. They might give you something like this for free...
www.yourisp.com/~yourusername
But if you wanted something unique like...
www.londonjets.com
You'd have to pay to get that registered.
Hosts often sell combine packages - web server space and domain name registration together. Otherwise when you register the name you'd need to get it redirected to your actual host.
Now when it comes to chosing a host - or a company to handle the domain registration - I'm afraid I don't have much experience on that front.
1) A host - a company that will physically host the site on their machines for which you will pay a monthly fee depending on how server space it takes up and much traffic the site generates.
2) A domain - this is just the unique name of the site which you will need to pay to get registered. This needs to be renewed periodically (every year?).
ISPs usually offer a small amout of web server space to their users so if you just want to set up a few pages that are unlikely to generate a lot of traffic you could use them and not have to pay for a host. And if you don't mind what the site's address looks like you wouldn't even need to pay for a domain. They might give you something like this for free...
www.yourisp.com/~yourusername
But if you wanted something unique like...
www.londonjets.com
You'd have to pay to get that registered.
Hosts often sell combine packages - web server space and domain name registration together. Otherwise when you register the name you'd need to get it redirected to your actual host.
Now when it comes to chosing a host - or a company to handle the domain registration - I'm afraid I don't have much experience on that front.
Joined: Mar 2000
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From: Edinburgh, UK
I am typical. I know little about the internet too. For my hobby website;
I registered my --------.co.uk domain (web address) via 1and1.co.uk
The cost , £4 for two years.
This redirects to the free 10Mb or whatever it is webspace provided by my ISP, blueyonder
I registered my --------.co.uk domain (web address) via 1and1.co.uk
The cost , £4 for two years.
This redirects to the free 10Mb or whatever it is webspace provided by my ISP, blueyonder
