[lug] OT: Creating my own website & domain name

[D. Stimits]

Barney Treadway wrote:
> My $0.02...
> 
> Keep the domain registration independent of the hosting company. Most
> registrars offer dns service as well. We use a reseller account at dotster
> that gives us redundant name servers and name registration for about $16 a
> year.

If you use your-site.com ($20/year domain), you keep full control (add 
$5/mo for hosting). [and it is a pure UNIX type solution on very good 
Sun hardware]

D. Stimits, stimits AT attbi.com

> 
> That way no one but you controls what the name does.
> 
> Barney
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Dollison" <johndollison at hotmail.com>
> To: <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
> Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 12:18 PM
> Subject: [lug] OT: Creating my own website & domain name
> 
> 
> 
>>I've had my own personal websites before, usually something like
>>www.attbi.com/~user52, but I'd like to get my own domain name.  Problem
> 
> is,
> 
>>I've heard a lot of horror stories about people who paid way too much to
>>register, then found out they could only put up three pages, and couldn't
>>transfer the domain to another web-hosting company.  And there are so many
>>companies to choose from!  I don't need any fancy features, just a few
> 
> megs
> 
>>of space where I could put up my main page with maybe a dozen sub-pages.
>>
>>I looked at this webhost (http://www.1sthostweb.com/features.htm), and
> 
> they
> 
>>seem pretty good, for $50/year, but I wanted to get BLUG's advice.
> 
> Whaddaya
> 
>>think?
>>
>>John D