# Hosting Websites

Category: Geeks r Us

## Post 1 by Harmony (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Tuesday, 18-Mar-2008 15:33:31

I'm making a website at the minute. I haven't finished it yet, but want to think about how to put it on the internet. Does anyone have any ideas of how to do this? Thank you.

## Post 2 by cattleya (Help me, I'm stuck to my chair!) on Wednesday, 19-Mar-2008 3:22:05

Do you know anything about getting started? What are you using to make your Web site?

## Post 3 by Harmony (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Wednesday, 19-Mar-2008 3:29:04

I'm using Microsoft Frontpage. I know my IT teacher said they don't sell frontpage any more, but that's all I've got on my computer.

## Post 4 by Stevo (The Established Ass) on Wednesday, 19-Mar-2008 4:49:13

Are you wanting to run it off your own server or use a web hosting service? I'd suggest the latter, it's way easier. if you wanna find one just type web hosting into google, there're loads out there.

## Post 5 by laced-unlaced (Account disabled) on Wednesday, 19-Mar-2008 7:51:23

good luck harmony, can't wait to se it. :)

## Post 6 by Squiggles (Account disabled) on Wednesday, 19-Mar-2008 12:43:10

I personally run my own website, however if you don't want the hastle, I recommend www.50webs.com. Now yes, there is a captcha and there is nothing I can do about that. However, you get 50 megs of disk space, so if html documents is all you will be hosting then that is more than enough. The top benefits are that the site is run off a linux box, which to you means it is secure and always will be secure. Second of all, you have no ads on your site. So good luck. 50 webs is free by the way, but if you don't mind paying a tiny fee every year, once a year, try www.register.com and you can by a domain name for less than $5 a month.

## Post 7 by Squiggles (Account disabled) on Wednesday, 19-Mar-2008 12:44:19

ooops that might've been less than $5 a year. one or the other.

## Post 8 by blindndangerous (the blind and dangerous one) on Wednesday, 19-Mar-2008 16:42:41

I had trouble signing up for 50webs. I heard freewebs is good though.

## Post 9 by Harmony (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Wednesday, 19-Mar-2008 16:59:30

I've heard freewebs, but I found it ard to register with.

## Post 10 by oldskoolrapper (On da block) on Wednesday, 19-Mar-2008 22:57:12

Freewebs is similar like myspace. I had a freewebs go to zoomshare.com

## Post 11 by Squiggles (Account disabled) on Thursday, 20-Mar-2008 11:02:43

unless you want your site to be chock full of ads and bull like this, then choose 50webs, even if you need to get someone to read the captcha. You will want to choose the option to create a new subdomain.

## Post 12 by cattleya (Help me, I'm stuck to my chair!) on Thursday, 20-Mar-2008 14:19:53

Hmm, you'll need something with front page support. I don't know much about Front Page (never used it) does it do the HTML for you? If not and you have to write it yourself then why not use something simple like notepad? Will make it easier in uploading a site...Or at least finding a free host (if free is what you want).

## Post 13 by chikorita (move over school!) on Thursday, 20-Mar-2008 21:07:45

hmm. there used to be a free one called 789mb, they gave you 10 gb of space, php 5 and mySql or whatever, but can't find it now.

## Post 14 by skpoet711 (Zone BBS is my Life) on Monday, 24-Mar-2008 21:27:07

Very true, the host you need is one that support frontpage extentions
ingredients:
1. ftp prog, easy to get
2. Organize your files in to dirs for easy uploading
3. decide on free, paid, or self hosting.
4. Do research, google has always been my friend.
5. Compare costs, benefits, and if frontpage is offered.
6. Sign up.
7. Upload dirs to the subdomain, or your IP if paid.
8. Your page should be working and ready to be viewed.
Of course I've broken it down in to a nutshell. There are tons other things to consider. As mentioned above, do research and read up on the nuances of web hosting.
considerations:
1. free hosting don't usually allow for streamming media.
2. Self hosting will need to be secured, read up on I I S.
3. Paid hosting will require your own domain, godaddy.com is my friend there.
4. Paid hosting need other "know how" knowledge like dns assigning, usage of cpanel, etc.
5. Maintain, maintain, maintain. No one will visit your site often if you don't regularly update it. Thats a whole different horse all together.