Webhosting

[whitedragon551 5,000+ posts]

Anyone have their own websites? Im considering starting my own so Im looking for a provider. Anyone have any companies they go through or have experience with?

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[cthedinger 10+ year member]

I use hostgator.

 

[whitedragon551 5,000+ posts]

I use hostgator.

Not sure I want to spend $4 a month for a year for my first website.

 

[Oh6AcCoRd 10+ year member]

What kind of site you thinking about doin?

 

[whitedragon551 5,000+ posts]

What kind of site you thinking about doin?

I have a tech blog now and have made decent money with Google Adsense on it. I figured I would transfer the content over to a dedicated .com rather than using a blogging platform. I also figured I could use it as real world experience. I have 2 semesters left before I graduate from university with my Bachelors in Computer Information Systems. Right now I have loads of MySQL and PHP classes and have more to take. I figured having a website with those features would help me learn them rather than reading a book all the time.

 

[MikeofTulsa Moderator]

godaddy has some decent pricing. There are several people on this site that have their own hosting companies that have some decent pricing as well.

 

[craigzter 10+ year member]

Or use WAMP Server and do it yourself...easy as **** to setup and use. Just need a domain and someone to host your domain and use their nameservers //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

pm if you have more questions.

 

[-01limited- 10+ year member]

Not sure I want to spend $4 a month for a year for my first website.

to me $4 a month doesnt sound to bad for a domain name?

Or has stuff just got that cheap these days?

 

[craigzter 10+ year member]

I have bought all my domains in the past from godaddy and ran my site off a home based server, such as wamp server. If you have good firewall, malware, spyware and anti virus programs you don't have to worry.

Also got cracked version of AVG and malware bytes til 2018 if anyone wants it //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif Got some other stuffs too

 

[whitedragon551 5,000+ posts]

to me $4 a month doesnt sound to bad for a domain name?
Or has stuff just got that cheap these days?

It is cheap, but I still cant justify spending $48/yr for my first website. Ill only be using it for experience for my classes.

 

[Kangaroux 5,000+ posts]

I've always used godaddy and haven't had any issues with it. Domains are only like $8 a year and hosting is dirt cheap for the kind of space and speeds you get. However if this is just more of a personal website you can use a spare computer, install ubuntu or something and use the WAMP on it. If you aren't familiar with using linux or a command line, windows server would work as well.

 

[whitedragon551 5,000+ posts]

Or use WAMP Server and do it yourself...easy as **** to setup and use. Just need a domain and someone to host your domain and use their nameservers //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif
pm if you have more questions.

Dont want to use a WAMP server.

I've always used godaddy and haven't had any issues with it. Domains are only like $8 a year and hosting is dirt cheap for the kind of space and speeds you get. However if this is just more of a personal website you can use a spare computer, install ubuntu or something and use the WAMP on it. If you aren't familiar with using linux or a command line, windows server would work as well.

Ive got 3 computers. 1 is my gaming laptop and 2 are netbooks. Not anything that can handle a website. Ill check GoDaddy out some more. From what I was seeing it was $11.99 for a year for the hosting, then the cost of the domain and then an additional $10/year for keeping the WhoIs info private.

 

[craigzter 10+ year member]

Just trying to help. No need in spending excess money on things you can do yourself. But it's your deal, your cash man. GL

 

[whitedragon551 5,000+ posts]

Anyone have any experience with Bluehost?