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Information Technology News Use open source to build your own top-class online presence for nothing, part one
Information Technology News Use open source to build your own top-class online presence for nothing, part one | Use open source to build your own top-class online presence for nothing, part one |
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| by David M Williams | |
| Sunday, 11 November 2007 | |
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Page 3 of 4 Whirlpool, the popular Australian technology forum, has an active thread announcing free web hosting offers. These include servers based in the U.S. and in Australia. The offers made here are by genuine web hosting companies who rely on paid web hosting, not advertising, for their funding. This immediately means several key benefits: firstly, they will not force their own site-specific address on you but will use the domain name you have chosen. Secondly, they will not display any advertising or content on your web site that you didn’t upload yourself. Thirdly, these servers are generally high-performance machines in data centres with fat Internet pipes.Featured Whitepaper
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A quick Google search reveals more options, including the resource site Free Web Hosts who list and review over 300 free web hosting site. For opensourcerecruitment.com I’ve decided to go with PHPnet.0lx.net. Their free hosting plan lets me host up to five domains, with 300Mb disk space, PHP and MySQL support, plus 10Gb bandwidth per month. You can check out their paid plans on the home page to see how they scale up. As before, look around. You might find other web hosts who suit you better; I chose this one because it had some good recommendations and I felt the capacity offered would meet my needs for some time. Sign up with the web host you’ve chosen. You’ll get an e-mail giving you the address of your control panel on their site. You use this control panel to set up your domains. In PHPNet.0lx.net’s case, the control panel is at cpanel.0lx.net and you then want to click the Addon Domains link. There’s two important things to note here, and this will be true for any web host. Firstly, you can add the domains you wish to host. Specify the domain name or names that you purchased here. Secondly, you will be told the site’s name servers that you need to use. In my case, I’ve added opensourcerecruitment.com as a domain that will reside here. I could also add opensourcerecruitment.net, but then this would make them two separate domains, with their own set of files and folders. Really, I’d like them to be one and the same. So, go back to the control panel’s home page then select Parked Domains. This lets you assign additional domain names to the one single site. We’re going to host WordPress, and this uses MySQL as a back-end database. So, we need to make a database. In the control panel click the MySQL Databases link and make a new database, giving it a meaningful name. You’re pretty much done in the web host’s control panel. Before you close it, make sure you get all these details and record them. They’re all vitally important. Some may have been given to you in your signup confirmation e-mail from the web host, others might be listed in the control panel. |
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