Re: [newbie] Web Service or What
On Tuesday 22 February 2005 12:18 am, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: 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 Before you try to set up one yourself, make sure you can with the ISP you are using. Some ISPs block or redirect incomming port 80 connections. It may also be agenst your ISP's rules for you to run a web server. Now, if you deside have it hosted, deside how much trafic you expect, and shop around. If you are looking at fairly low trafic, such as for a personal web site, you can get 5G/month for around $11/year. This includes the web site, mail server, name server, mysql server, and a plenty of disk space. Most web hosting places also offer regestration at fairly low rates. Mikkel so Mikkel, why not tell us where this $11/year - 5gig/month service is? I personally just go for paying my cable broadband bill, and run the websites off it. unless you are going to serve up movies to 20 or so connections at one time, Mandrake and PHP/mysql and the rest of the 'LAMP' suite (linux, Apache, Mysql, PERL/PHP make it almost as difficult as typing a resume. but IMHO, the resume is slightly more difficult, unless you have one to copy... -- linux counter #167806 (http://counter.li.org/) website=http://ed-tharp.kicks-ass.org; Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Web Service or What
et wrote: On Tuesday 22 February 2005 12:18 am, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: 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 Before you try to set up one yourself, make sure you can with the ISP you are using. Some ISPs block or redirect incomming port 80 connections. It may also be agenst your ISP's rules for you to run a web server. Now, if you deside have it hosted, deside how much trafic you expect, and shop around. If you are looking at fairly low trafic, such as for a personal web site, you can get 5G/month for around $11/year. This includes the web site, mail server, name server, mysql server, and a plenty of disk space. Most web hosting places also offer regestration at fairly low rates. Mikkel so Mikkel, why not tell us where this $11/year - 5gig/month service is? I personally just go for paying my cable broadband bill, and run the websites off it. unless you are going to serve up movies to 20 or so connections at one time, Mandrake and PHP/mysql and the rest of the 'LAMP' suite (linux, Apache, Mysql, PERL/PHP make it almost as difficult as typing a resume. but IMHO, the resume is slightly more difficult, unless you have one to copy... Well, I guess the price has gone up slightly. It is no $0.95/month, payable yearly. ($11.40/year) But take a look at http://www.findmyhosting.com/listallplans.asp?host=6723 Disk storage:250 MB Data Transferee:5 G Mail Accounts: No limit. But, you can take a look at: http://www.findmyhosting.com/searchresults.asp?page=1op=1sid=871538 The cheapest 5 G plan is $0.56/month payable yearly. Works out to $6.72/year. Disk storage:200 MB Data Transferee:5 G Mail Accounts: No limit. I am using the first one. I have had it for 10 months so far, and I am happy with it. But my site is just for fun. I give the mail server more of a workout then the web server. Mikkel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Web Service or What
Thanks to all who gave direction. Mikkel, I have signed up per your direction and never knew there were so many to choose from. BJ 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 Before you try to set up one yourself, make sure you can with the ISP you are using. Some ISPs block or redirect incomming port 80 connections. It may also be agenst your ISP's rules for you to run a web server. Now, if you deside have it hosted, deside how much trafic you expect, and shop around. If you are looking at fairly low trafic, such as for a personal web site, you can get 5G/month for around $11/year. This includes the web site, mail server, name server, mysql server, and a plenty of disk space. Most web hosting places also offer regestration at fairly low rates. Mikkel so Mikkel, why not tell us where this $11/year - 5gig/month service is? I personally just go for paying my cable broadband bill, and run the websites off it. unless you are going to serve up movies to 20 or so connections at one time, Mandrake and PHP/mysql and the rest of the 'LAMP' suite (linux, Apache, Mysql, PERL/PHP make it almost as difficult as typing a resume. but IMHO, the resume is slightly more difficult, unless you have one to copy... Well, I guess the price has gone up slightly. It is no $0.95/month, payable yearly. ($11.40/year) But take a look at http://www.findmyhosting.com/listallplans.asp?host=6723 Disk storage:250 MB Data Transferee:5 G Mail Accounts: No limit. But, you can take a look at: http://www.findmyhosting.com/searchresults.asp?page=1op=1sid=871538 The cheapest 5 G plan is $0.56/month payable yearly. Works out to $6.72/year. Disk storage:200 MB Data Transferee:5 G Mail Accounts: No limit. I am using the first one. I have had it for 10 months so far, and I am happy with it. But my site is just for fun. I give the mail server more of a workout then the web server. Mikkel __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Web Service or What
BJ Tracy wrote: Thanks to all who gave direction. Mikkel, I have signed up per your direction and never knew there were so many to choose from. BJ I know what you mean. I went through it when my ISP decided to get out of DSL. The only option for running a server was over $100/month. I am on my second web hosting service. The first was a local company, but they had reliability issues. I am happy with my second choice. But is was fun running my own servers. I still have them running on the home network. Mikkel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Web Service or What
On Monday 21 February 2005 09:23 pm, 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 if you want some one to answer that for you, you would first have to decide how much to pay yourself... -- linux counter #167806 (http://counter.li.org/) website=http://ed-tharp.kicks-ass.org; Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Web Service or What
On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 21:42, et wrote: On Monday 21 February 2005 09:23 pm, 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 if you want some one to answer that for you, you would first have to decide how much to pay yourself... SNIP Good point...I'm really looking for ease of use and flexibility... cost $5.00 to $20.00 a month. bj Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
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. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
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 Before you try to set up one yourself, make sure you can with the ISP you are using. Some ISPs block or redirect incomming port 80 connections. It may also be agenst your ISP's rules for you to run a web server. Now, if you deside have it hosted, deside how much trafic you expect, and shop around. If you are looking at fairly low trafic, such as for a personal web site, you can get 5G/month for around $11/year. This includes the web site, mail server, name server, mysql server, and a plenty of disk space. Most web hosting places also offer regestration at fairly low rates. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Web Service or What
- 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
