----- Original Message ----- From: "SigmaX" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <newbie@linux-mandrake.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 5:13 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Web Service or What
> BJ Tracy wrote: > > >Hello All, > > > >Going thru a career change here and it looks like I'm going to need a > >web page. After I research all the answers you kind folks replied with, > >I'm sure I can layout and design a web page (s). > > > >Here is my question: > >- should I just buy space on someones server like www.register.com for > >$4.95 a month or take one of my many boxes here and build a server and > >rent an address like www.no-ip.com ? > > > >I'm really confused about what would be the easiest and cost LESS. > > > >TIA, > >BJ > > > > > > Well if you already have an internet connection that's up to par for a > server (As in it's high-speed and your ISP allows servers), and you > already have a box lying around (You'd only need a high-end server for > extremely trafficed HTTP sites, or maybe things like ASP pages), than I > would say setting up your own server would be ideal. Just grabbing an > old Pentium II or whatever, plopping a default mandrake install on it > with apache, and plugging your web site into /var/www/html is about all > it takes :-). Registering a .com address would probably costyou about > $15 a year, as opposed to $50 (At a better-than-average deal) a year for > a basic web hosting package from an ad-free web-service provider (Like > me). Alternatively you can get a www.[yourname].cjb.net subdomain from > cjb or a similar organization for free, though if I remember there's on > occasional popup for IE users (Which makes up roughly 2/3 of browser > users and falling). > > Anyway, that's my yammer for the evening, > Cheers, > SigmaX > > -- > Registered Linux Freak #: 366,862 > > "If you think of MS-DOS as mono, and Windows as stereo, then Linux is Dolby Pro-Logic Surround Sound with Bass Boost and all the music is free." Also, if your using your own server, you could try www.dyndns.org
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