I was thinking of taking on some web space and tinker around putting details of my car on it. For a domain its about £25 a year right?

 

Knowing pretty much zero about this kinda stuff I have a couple of questions........

 

Will I be able to use this to receive emails? (well, I know you can but is it pretty easy to set up?)

Could I create a section to host stuff from my C drive so I can image and hypertext from it?

 

Ok, I'm sure you I.T boys are all laughing your head off but give me a break, I'm willing to learn all about it.

Originally posted by james300

I was thinking of taking on some web space and tinker around putting details of my car on it. For a domain its about £25 a year right?

You can get a site for £14.99 for 2 years, which gives you 10 meg free web space

Will I be able to use this to receive emails?

Yes, if you own the Domain name you will be able to receive all mails to the domain i.e. anything @DomainName.xxx

Could I create a section to host stuff from my C drive so I can image and hypertext from it?

Not without a static IP address and some server software. Not really worth it mate. You may as well buy some web space if you need more than 10 Meg.

 

Just thinking though James. You were going to go to Broadband right ?. You know if you will get web space with them (10 meg I think) and it won't cost you anything.

James,

 

What connection do you use, i.e. Broardband, Modem etc?

 

I ask because you can get 50Mb free space from: http://www.velnet.com if you can use their provided dial up number for uploading to the site (it's a local rate number) The space is on a shared Tiscalli server and unfortunately they use Caller Line Identification. But you can of course use your normal dial-up for most of the time including collecting mail as you only need to set the incoming mail server to the Velnet one.

 

I use their space and its pretty reliable in terms of down time as long as you don't want to run scripts etc.

 

The guys name is Temi btw.

 

Oh, nearly forgot .co.uk with 50Mb free and POP3 boxes is £10 + VAT for 2 yrs

 

HTH

 

Tim

I am with pipex and i think i get 50mb but never use it as my broadband ip address changes about 1 every year and i have a dns program that sorts out that

 

 

If you go broadband and want to play abou then host at home for testing

 

you can buy a .co.uk for about £3 a year (http://www.compila.com) or a .com for £9 (no web space but you can redirect it to your home pc)

 

Have a look at http://www.dyndns.org who give you a dns redirect

 

You redirect your domain to this (eg simon.dyndns.org) and this would automaticly forward to your home pc with a piece of software installed

 

 

I use it for http://www.burf.com

Just rember though James.....

If you do host form your home PC, your website will only be available whilst your PC is on.

Originally posted by smw1

Just rember though James.....

If you do host form your home PC, your website will only be available whilst your PC is on.

 

Heeeeeeey, I'm not that clueless! ;)

 

Thanks for the other advice, I'm going to look into it!

Sorry mate didn't mean to underestimate your IT knowledge,

However it was you that tried to put up a link to c:\James_pictures\car.jpg wasn't it ? :D ;).

And if you have broadband remember that the speed is asymetric (eg ADSL = Asymetric Digital Subscriber Line), so while you get 500Kb download, you only get about 128Kb or maybe 200Kb upload. So once more than a couple of people are accessing it then they will get sh1te performance. Also, many of the broadband contracts forbid hosting services on the client end.

 

 

Originally posted by smw1

Just rember though James.....

If you do host form your home PC, your website will only be available whilst your PC is on.

Originally posted by smw1

Sorry mate didn't mean to underestimate your IT knowledge,

However it was you that tried to put up a link to c:\James_pictures\car.jpg wasn't it ? :D ;).

 

Ha ha! Yes, it was. An easy assumption to make I think that I could lift it from my C drive.

 

At least I post in the appropriate post!

 

ahem........

 

"I've fixed the date column, can I just confirm that you wanted this date to be the date of the maximum maturity amount shown in the report. i.e. the date of the highest total_exposure amount for that parent id in the current period).

 

I'm still working on the additional restore option withint the GUI. I'll get back to you by COB today.

Stuart"

 

LMFAO

:D

:eek: Nice come back,

I guess I'll shut up then :D :D

Well my broadband is 512down and 256 up

 

I have had 8 users at a time on a php forum with no probs

 

I now have proper hosting for the forum but my site is still hosted at home.If your site is only a personel website then you wont get too much traffic

 

The main page (hosted at home) gets about 500 hits a day (dont no why)

 

If you need any help setting it up (dns and stuff)

email me at simon@burf.com or check http://www.burf.com

PM me and ill sort you out a domain name and some space.

I get 250MB of web space and three domain hosted for free with Force9.

I have two domains http://www.saxo-vtrs.co.uk which costs a pound a month and http://www.nissan-twinturbo.co.uk which cost £6 for two years :)

Hi Simon..

 

What Broadband provider are you with?? I am with Blueyonder and have their 1mb service, but the only trouble is upload is set to a measly 256k/bits :(. Their 512k/bit download has 128k/bit upload :( :( :(

 

Robert

 

Originally posted by burf2000

Well my broadband is 512 down and 256 up

 

I have had 8 users at a time on a php forum with no probs

 

I now have proper hosting for the forum but my site is still hosted at home.If your site is only a personel website then you wont get too much traffic

 

The main page (hosted at home) gets about 500 hits a day (dont no why)

 

If you need any help setting it up (dns and stuff)

email me at simon@burf.com or check http://www.burf.com