Need A Good Domain Name

[Maijo]

I'm looking for a cheap, effective and easy to get domain service.

Any suggestions?

[thetruecoolness]

Re: Need A Good Domain Name

I'm looking for a cheap, effective and easy to get domain service.

Any suggestions?

www.1and1.com

What I use, and they're pretty cheap and never had any problems with them. I think it's $6/yr for just a domain name, and $4/month for hosting (10GB space, 300GB transfer, and PHP, MySQL, etc, includes domain).

[Smurf Taco]

Re: Need A Good Domain Name

http://www.dreamhost.com

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or

http://www.netfirms.com

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[Maijo]

Re: Need A Good Domain Name

I need a little more info, fellas.

See, I have a base knowledge of web coding and can construct my website in text, but I just need to know what the process is for building your website after registering a domain name.

What are the steps in between?

[thetruecoolness]

Re: Need A Good Domain Name

Well basically you signup and register the domain, then most have an ftp account that either you setup or is already setup for you. Then you just copy your index.html and you're ready to go.

Other things to consider are a robots.txt file to keep certain pages and folders from being cached by various web spiders (googlebot, etc) http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/norobots.html. Also learning about .htaccess and what it can do can be helpful http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess.shtml.

But beyond setting up a MySQL database to store dynamic info there is usually no other setup involved beyond choosing a name, and then ftping into your space on their server and copying your code files. Using MS hosting if you're using ASP might require a bit more setup, but probably just to change default settings.

And of course your one stop source for PHP www.php.net, and for ASP.NET www.msdn.com.

The domain service typically does all the backend setup for you (PHP, Apache, MySQL, etc) so all you have to do is FTP files or setup DBs. If you're looking for a way to test sites on your local machine consider getting XAMPP http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html (will allow you to run a localhost webserver using Apache, MySQL, and PHP or Perl). If you plan on using ASP just downloading Visual Studio Web Developer Express should be enough, since it has it's own debugger which will act like a local test server.