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,
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