Hosting own website?
Discussion
A friend has just started a new small business and needs a website (nothing fancy, more of an online portfolio) so there a question of where and how to host it. Seeing as I keep one of my Mac Minis permanently online I was wondering how easy it would be for me to host their website for them. Anyone know what it would entail on a Mac? I'd expect it to be just HTML really so no need for PHP etc. Also if the site was to be Flash, would the hosting/server requirements be different?
If the site was to be Flash, you may as well host it anywhere (IMHO - Flash being the easiest way to render content inaccessible and irrelevant). Seriously though, if it's for a professional purpose, host it with people who are set up for hosting - there's a heck of a lot more to it than just being mostly online via a standard ISP package. Jamie Beeston at register1.net is your PHer to speak to for the hosting side of things. He has various options, from very little per month to not such a little per month, and the service will surprise you 
As for the design, it is also my opinion that that is best done by people with experience in the field and demonstrable knowledge of the medium.
HTH
Ciao
Zak
As for the design, it is also my opinion that that is best done by people with experience in the field and demonstrable knowledge of the medium.
HTH
Ciao
Zak
It's actually very easy to 'self host' these days. BUT and it is a big BUT (and I can not lie) it's not without issues. The most important being that you will be using your cable/ADSL connection to punt the data around, so the more you use it the less the website will have to play with.
Basically you need to start Apache, if the mini is like my imac then it's hidden behind the "publish your site" type helpers, but it's still Apache (and I believe PHP).
Then go to somewhere like dyndns.org and make yourself a basic freebie account. Download an OS X client and install it, fill in your account details and the domain name you selected for yourself.
Wait a little while and... done.
Naturally you'll want to turn on as much protection for the mini as possible (hide it behind NAT/Firewall and so on) as it's now facing the big wide world in anger... and people will attempt to blast you off the face of it with regular monotony. Seriously... my little box in London has had more people trying to obliterate it, warez it and generally break it then I can remember.
Flash, has not real needs above and beyond basic HTML. It's just files, called from a webpage that do 'stuff'; be it play animation, read a file, connect to a database and do 'stuff'. Naturally the 'stuff' you can do is dependant on the features of your host (which if self hosting will be... whatever you install
).
Basically you need to start Apache, if the mini is like my imac then it's hidden behind the "publish your site" type helpers, but it's still Apache (and I believe PHP).
Then go to somewhere like dyndns.org and make yourself a basic freebie account. Download an OS X client and install it, fill in your account details and the domain name you selected for yourself.
Wait a little while and... done.
Naturally you'll want to turn on as much protection for the mini as possible (hide it behind NAT/Firewall and so on) as it's now facing the big wide world in anger... and people will attempt to blast you off the face of it with regular monotony. Seriously... my little box in London has had more people trying to obliterate it, warez it and generally break it then I can remember.
Flash, has not real needs above and beyond basic HTML. It's just files, called from a webpage that do 'stuff'; be it play animation, read a file, connect to a database and do 'stuff'. Naturally the 'stuff' you can do is dependant on the features of your host (which if self hosting will be... whatever you install
). Kinky said:
If you click on the banner on the top right of this page it will take you to Jamie Beestons website.
Used and recommended by a few thousand PHers now (or so it seems)
K
Used and recommended by a few thousand PHers now (or so it seems)
K
You're actually not far off... there are ALOT of PH'rs who're gracious enough to send some business the way of a fellow PH'r It also helps when you nice lot also go out of your way to recommend Register1 where appropriate
You're all great
J
The Dude said:
Jamie,
My mate has already bought the domain name he wishes to use. Could he still sign up for a VDS with Register1 in that case?
My mate has already bought the domain name he wishes to use. Could he still sign up for a VDS with Register1 in that case?
Yes he can.
I've got about 12 domains - most of which I already had when I migrated to Jamie - which I have to confess was an absolute doddle - considering all the aggro I've had in the past.
K
Kinky said:
The Dude said:
Jamie,
My mate has already bought the domain name he wishes to use. Could he still sign up for a VDS with Register1 in that case?
My mate has already bought the domain name he wishes to use. Could he still sign up for a VDS with Register1 in that case?
Yes he can.
I've got about 12 domains - most of which I already had when I migrated to Jamie - which I have to confess was an absolute doddle - considering all the aggro I've had in the past.
K
As The Kinkster says, yes, you can keep the domain elsewhere, or, transfer the domain in and have it renewed. J
JamieBeeston said:
Kinky said:
The Dude said:
Jamie,
My mate has already bought the domain name he wishes to use. Could he still sign up for a VDS with Register1 in that case?
My mate has already bought the domain name he wishes to use. Could he still sign up for a VDS with Register1 in that case?
Yes he can.
I've got about 12 domains - most of which I already had when I migrated to Jamie - which I have to confess was an absolute doddle - considering all the aggro I've had in the past.
K
As The Kinkster says, yes, you can keep the domain elsewhere, or, transfer the domain in and have it renewed. J
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