Quoting Richard Neal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Now I haven't done this myself but I can bet a few of you have your > own > websites with your own domain names so I'm asking 2 questions. > > 1.One whats the cheapest simplest way to register a domain name and > who > with and how much is it.
If you wanted it on the cheap, you need someone to host the zone files of your domain, aka act as a nameserver. I recommend you go sign up with www.zoneedit.com, and put your zone files with them. It costs nothing at first, and you could easily continue to use it with no costs, assuming your zone files don't consume lots of hits, thus using tokens which they give you about 3 for nothing. I've had my account for about 2-3 years and still not had to pay. Then I'd go rego the domain ( price varies depending on if you want a .net/org/com.au or .net/org/com) and you'd then be prompted what nameserver will host the domain. Input the domain servers for which zoneedit.com allocated to your zone/domain you created. > > 2. Who would be a good service provider to host a simple web > page/domain > name setup (I'm going to do the web page myself) and how much We will > also need a dial up so they can pickup their email. Now for hosting the domain, I recommend you just go to your local isp dialup provider, who gives you an account with say 10mb or more webspace with any dialup plan. Not to mention probably ~ 5 pop accounts too. Jump back onto zoneedit, logon and create a www.mydomain.com (and mydomain.com) redirection to your isp webspace.. ie.. heimic.net -> homepages.pacific.net.au/~michaelf/ www.heimic.net -> homepages.pacific.net.au/~michaelf/ And then just upload your html for the domain to your ISP webspace. As for emails, create aliases on zoneedit.com account and redirect them to anywhere. Maybe some redirections to your pop accounts you got created on your isp dialup account, or yahoo/hotmail.com etc.. > > Were talking a Mum and Dad and Son company here nothing big. So at the end of the day... www.mydomain.com in browser redirects to the html sitting on your isp webspace, which you get with your dialup account. And any email aliases like [EMAIL PROTECTED] should redirect to say one of the pop accounts you get with your isp account. Very simple, and cheap. Although you won't be able to usual do anything real fancy with your webpages, ie php, mysql backend etc.. But for straight html showing what the company does and some pics... no problem. Good luck > > Regards > > Richard Neal > > -- > ******************************************************************** > * Hey if you're going to get mad at me every time I do something * > * stupid, then I guess I'll just have to stop doing stupid things! * > ******************************************************************** > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
