hosting website on a server

[drbearded]

how would you go about hosting on your own server like whats the requirements and how much does it cost?

[The Little Guy]

It would probably cost $300+

Need to buy a:
- Dedicated Server $200+
- Domain Name $5+
- Internet Connection $100+ (?)

Or a host (beginer/starter)
Need to buy a:
- Domain Name $5+ (Possibly free if host has that)
- Web Host $7+/Month

[drbearded]

is the internet connection price annualy?

[welsh]

most likely not, i suggest you just purchase webhosting something like at godaddy.com or dreamhost. something that can be down to like $4 a month and a domain for like $5 a year.

[The Little Guy]

You can get hosting at blue host.com for $7.95/month for a two year subscription (~$85), along with a free domain name.

You will get 10GB Space, and 250GB bandwidth per month
More Info (http://www.bluehost.com/tell_me_more.html)
BlueHost (http://www.bluehost.com/)

[vaportrans1]

depends what you want to do, if you run heavy applications or databases sometimes you may need good hardware, reliability backup features, easy to use control panel. Also, if you manage it or the ISP. But in general a decent server would cost at least $99. I came across this site, shallal net they seem to be offering some decent priced hardware.

[drbearded]

does dedicated mean you own the server in your own home? :confused:

[David Harrison]

There are a few types of hosting. I'm stating right now that you will only need shared hosting.

However, dedicated hosting is where you buy or rent a machine in a data centre. You get charged for power and bandwidth, or if you're renting the server, the power cost will probably be included in the rent as well as a certain amount of bandwidth, with extra costing more. Usually it's medium sized companies that need dedicated servers, any larger and they'll just start they're own data centre, any smaller and shared hosting is fine.

Which is why I said that you need only shared hosting. Web-hosts have servers in their data centre, and some machines are setup for shared hosting, which means that multiple clients all share the same machine. It's much cheaper than dedicated hosting, because the cost is spread out between customers.

However, to get a presence on the web there are many other alternatives. You could just go for a free host like www.freewebs.com (http://www.freewebs.com). They don't have any server-side languages, but they do have server-side includes and they're free. However, you do have to have some ads on your pages, and you can't have your own domain name.

I would strongly recommend starting off with a free host, you can mess around on them as much as you like, then when you feel you're ready, you can lay down the cash for some no-ads hosting.

The final alternative is to simply host the site on your own machine. Just download WAMP (http://www.wampserver.com/en/) or XAMPP (http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html), install it and you're PC will then become a web and database server. You'd need to configure your router (if you access the net through a router) to allow traffic to access your machine though, that could be a bit tricky if you don't know how.

So I would recommend getting a free hosting account, at the very most though, you only need shared hosting. Dedicated hosting would just be total overkill for you.

[drbearded]

The final alternative is to simply host the site on your own machine. Just download WAMP or XAMPP, install it and you're PC will then become a web and database server. You'd need to configure your router (if you access the net through a router) to allow traffic to access your machine though, that could be a bit tricky if you don't know how.


other than the domain does that method cost money

[David Harrison]

To be perfectly honest, I'm not really sure how to get a domain name to point to your personal machine without running at least two name servers (because most domain registrars require at least 2 name servers to be entered in case one fails).

However, if the domain registrar allows you to point the domain name to a specific IP, then you could point it to you that way, but that requires you to have a static IP address, which isn't all that common.

Alternatively, you could head on over to no-ip.com (http://www.no-ip.com/), you can get a free subdomain and point that at your IP, but even if your IP varies when you disconnect and reconnect to the internet, they have a utility that you can use to automatically update their database when you reconnect.

[drbearded]

......would you allow me to make another post in domain names about directing a domain to an ip address?

[David Harrison]

Perfectly acceptable, different question different thread.