Hosting

Jonnu · **Posted:** Wed Apr 16, 2008 4:17 pm

My teacher would kill me because i was acting like i was paying attention but i wasn't...
i would like to know how to host my site online thank you in advance for the help

i am on a Windows XP computer

Dan · **Posted:** Thu Apr 17, 2008 5:38 am

Well you need some where to host it. There are lots of free hosts out there that you can find easly with google.

You can also turn your computer in to a web server but that is more complicated. I sugest you google "free host" or "free webhosting".

rdrake · **Posted:** Thu Apr 17, 2008 8:52 pm

Dan @ Thu Apr 17, 2008 5:38 am wrote:

Well you need some where to host it. There are lots of free hosts out there that you can find easly with google.

Funny enough you can also use Google to host your site.

Hendo · **Posted:** Sat May 24, 2008 10:46 am

try zymic for a free host (www.zymic.com) and then just create an account and upload your files

Aziz · **Posted:** Sun May 25, 2008 12:03 am

Or as rdrake said, google pages.

jernst · **Posted:** Sun May 25, 2008 2:24 pm

if you still feel like hosting it on your own computer you could get started looking for Apache, or depending on what you want to do with the website you could look into a "LAMP" type of server which has apache, mysql and php (and usually linux, but I think there are some windows versions as well like xampp)

Aziz · **Posted:** Sun May 25, 2008 10:01 pm

jernst, LAMP stands for Linux Apache MySQL PHP/Perl.

I'm running a webserver at home (I'm on it currently, actually), and it's running Ubuntu 8.04. Downloaded 'server' version and installed it (I found some nice guides around the giggernet, just google "set up home ubuntu server"). It comes as shell only which is fine and nice for a server, but you can install GNOME desktop very simply:

code:

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

Look into http://dyndns.com. It's what I use and it works pretty well. Remember if you're using a router you'll have to forward some ports to your server (port 80 for web, 21 for ftp, 22 for ssh, etc etc, by default at least).

Mackie · **Posted:** Sun May 25, 2008 10:04 pm

Should I just give him some hosting?

Aziz · **Posted:** Sun May 25, 2008 10:05 pm

Just re-read first post. You mentioned you were on an XP machine, then I'd look into XAMPP or XAMPP light. My friend was just running a server himself. dynamic dns and forwarding ports still apply, of course. I would recommend a cheap box to run it on though, not your home computer. 24/7 running really wears on hardware. My server is put together from my aunt's and my mom's old computers combined, P4 2.4 GHz, 512MB ram.

Dragan · **Posted:** Mon May 26, 2008 5:58 pm

If you wont to host some site on your machine first you need to have static ip, and the best way for that is that you have wamp server to process your scripts.

ps. Za svu bracu iz Cikaga i ostalih mesta po belom svetu veliki pozdrav

Amailer · **Posted:** Mon May 26, 2008 9:24 pm

Not necessarily, there is always http://www.dyndns.com/ they actually just released a new windows updater http://www.dyndns.com/support/clients/windows.html

Though yeah, static ips are preferred.

Hm, anyone notice the thread starter has not made a single reply... Are you there? Hi

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