I have had a decent amount of experience with this sorta thing. ha
GoDaddy.com is the way to go IMHO and it's got a nice interface and all for uploading. Plus you can get MySQL stuff, as well as download something like SmartFTP for uploading (free).
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Just a possible warning about godaddy though: nodaddy. I have no experience using godaddy, so I definitely do not have any experience with godaddy suspending domain name registrations unfairly.
There are alternatives to PHP (and to SQL too, I suppose), and a "homepage" need not be "lousy" if it has good content within a good layout.Without PHP and SQL the only thing you can do is a lousy homepage...
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That's quite a statement and I'll challenge you on that right off the bat. I wonder what a server-side scripting language and information storage system could offer that makes a "good" homepage. They have absolutely NO influence on the content, the design, the usability, accessibility and ease of use (I could go on and on about this) and while it is true that PHP offers very advanced processing methods to dynamically create markup, it still only generates static websites.
It will probably be a little more complicated to edit the html files manually each time and you can't do "advanced" things such as news on several pages (without it being a pain in the butt) but I am pretty sure that you can do VERY good websites without the use of any server-side scripting language. The content and design is still more important than the technical features of your site.
Plus since this is a C/C++ forum, we *should* recommend C CGI to him
And using PHP in small simple sites could be considered more of a problem than a benifit.
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It doesn't affect the design nor the content, but soon he'll want to make a dynamic site and then he'd need to switch hostings. That's why it is good to take a normal hosting right away.
Let's make that "without PHP" to "without server-side scripting languages".
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How do you know that? Seriously. CGI only benefits a web site after their site has both an audience and content, because then your CGI experiments have a purpose; CGI can improve the user experience, among other uses. You shouldn't just throw CGI on every website because it provides different benefits depending on the content. And even then, it's still a decision to be made.It doesn't affect the design nor the content, but soon he'll want to make a dynamic site and then he'd need to switch hostings. That's why it is good to take a normal hosting right away.
Let's make that "without PHP" to "without server-side scripting languages".
Limited webhosting is certainly a valid option, slippy. It'll be a more wise expense to make when paid-hosting fits your needs, so I hope you don't waste your money.
Did you ask your ISP if they offered you web hosting with your subscription? Since you paid for it anyway, you might as well use that at first.
vart does have a point though: a local web server could facilitate testing of webpages over HTTP without having to upload to a remote server until you are satisfied.
I suggest using Apache for a webserver, then installing PHP and say MySQL (or enable PDO support and use SQLite) separately at some later point when you actually want to develop and test using such technology.
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Wampserver just includes the latest Apache, PHP and MySQL and a tray icon which you can use to start, stop, restart all of these services together, enable modules or plugins and much more. Less trouble, no loss in performance.
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On the other hand, one now relies on the maintainer of such a third party package to keep updated, and learns nothing about how to configure them in the absence of such combined packages.Wampserver just includes the latest Apache, PHP and MySQL and a tray icon which you can use to start, stop, restart all of these services together, enable modules or plugins and much more. Less trouble, no loss in performance.
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I don't think he wants to host his own website!?
But if he did, Installing PHP & SQL would be wise, just incase you wanted mess around with stuff or install some sort of 3rd party script.
Ok, I'm getting the idea now!I don't think he wants to host his own website!?
But if he did, Installing PHP & SQL would be wise, just incase you wanted mess around with stuff or install some sort of 3rd party script.
I found a registrar, but they want resource records for a
"zone file."
A what????
In any case, they said you need to specify a record to bind your nameserver to the web address. So I surfed the web and found something like
NNN.NNN.NNN.NNN would be the IP address of yahoo briefcase?Code:IN NS dns1.example.com dns1 IN A NNN.NNN.NNN.NNN
Now things are getting confusing again!
When you sign up for webhosting, you are given the nameserver information. If you host using a different company than the domain name registrar, you'll need to log in to your domain name registrar, find the area that allows you to set the nameserver, then use some copy paste for inserting the data as needed. It'll take a few hours to even 3 days for this change to propagate through the internet. Until then, you can only use a direct IP address to access your website and transfer files.
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