Hi i want to host my own website?
Hi guys, I need your help.
I want to have my own website.
including features :
sign in box (for users to connect on my site.)
flash work
databases
and much more like that….
Which hosting should i purchase :Linux or windows??
how much knowledge should i have about php, sql or like these….??
where should i get theme, or should i use wordpress…??
Please tell me…Thanks in advance
Hey do i really need an internet website. I just wanna put some articles or like that stuff.
I nowhere read that i have to purchase internet lisence.
Tagged with: databases • flash work • internet website • Linux • lisence • own website • site flash • sql • thanks in advance
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If I’m understanding you right, you’re not saying you want to host the site yourself (i.e. on your own computer), you just want your own website hosted somewhere.
Assuming that, you probably want a Linux hosting package. It runs PHP well and most free, open-source programs are being built in PHP/MySQL. You would need to buy the hosting package, as well as purchase the domain name if you haven’t already done so. You can go to a place like GoDaddy.com and get both for pretty cheap.
As for the site features, "flash work" and "databases" is pretty vague. If you’re not familiar with programming in Flash or databases like MySQL, then I’d recommend starting with a platform like WordPress where you can get a site up and running with minimal technical knowledge, and which offers a lot of free plug-ins that can help you get the kind of functionality you’re looking for.
Before you spend the money on a site name and host, I’d suggest checking out http://www.wordpress.com. You can start up a website for free on their site (e.g. whatevername.wordpress.com) and then you can check out the platform and see if it offers what you’re looking for before you pay to set it up on your own domain.
You need and internet licence $40
Server for hosting $130 > $2900
Design Software $50 > $5000
Luck Good
Dreamvever is good software u can get it for free of TPB and downlaod on LW
Wow, we’re ambitious, aren’t we? For what you want to do, it shouldn’t really matter whether you use Linux, Windows or Unix to host. The one I use is linked below, and I’ve always had good luck with them. Their customer support is incredibly fast and top-notch. They use Unix servers.
If you’re going to program your site yourself, you’re going to need to know a great deal about PHP, SQL (MySQL usually), HTML and CSS. If you use WordPress, you won’t have to worry about all the technical details as much, but it’s normally used for blogs, not all the other bells and whistles you talk about.
For sign-in, you’ll have to use PHP (or another server-side technology) and a database (MySQL will work). For Flash, you’ll need Adobe Flash, which isn’t free (or cheap). It uses a custom language which isn’t like PHP, HTML or anything else.
You’re attempting to bite off an awful lot right off the bat, here. I’d start with just an HTML page, then learn CSS and progress from there. HTH
Dreamweaver is good and makes a lot of that stuff straightforward. If you want a free option there is HTMLkit. It takes more effort though. You can google hosting to see what is best.
Web-server is included both in Windows (at least Ultimate) and Linux.
I would suggest Linux, because it can run well on older computers (especially if you only use it as a server, as you should). Apache is probably the best choice for a web-server (it’s included in the distros, just select it); and PHP and MySQL can easily be installed (also included) to work together with it. You can also add Perl, Python and/or Ruby (aka. Rails) to get more script-languages.
Linux can be downloaded for free, so you don’t have to pay anything.
The only thing Linux is missing (though I think it is possible to get) is support for ASP. But what you can do in ASP, can be done in PHP instead (ASP is Microsofts server-side web-scripting language… it’s based on Visual-Basic).
Script-packages (mostly PHP) for setting up photo-albums (e.g. Coppermine, Gallery), wikis, bloggs (e.g. WordPress), content-managers (e.g. Joombla), discussion-boards and so on can be downloaded from the individual sites for each projects… though most probably also can be installed as a precompiled package for your Linux-distro.
You may have to set-up dynamicDNS to connect a dynamic IP-address with a domain-name (this requires a server on your computer). You should probably also install a firewall on your computer, and may have to open up the firewall on your DSL-modem and/or router.
The computer you’ll be using as server, should have as little of anything else installed as possible. Preferentially neither X nor development-tools (except script-languages like Perl you want to use). The less that’s there, the less is the chance of some unexpected security-hole.
Remember that ADSL is much quicker to your computer than from your computer.
Personally, I think it’s better to host the site at a web-hotel. However, during learning or development of a site, it’s absolutely a good idea to set-up a web-server on your computer (though for personal use only).