Webhosting recommendations?

[Kevmaster]

usually 20,000 hits per month is 1GB of bandwidth. I can tell you that AO uses a hell of a lot....I talked to webby about it a while back

a subdomain is something such as:

http://subdomain.maindomain.com which goes to http://www.maindoamin.com/subdomain

100 POP email accounts are 100 email accounts that you access through outlook or a similar email program. [email protected] is an example. different from a forwarder which is [email protected] which forwards email to [email protected] or something.

multiple ftp accoutns in case you have two - three users and you want to give one only access to a directory. you have www.yourdomain.com and you can give them access ONLY to www.yourdomain.com/folder and they cant access anything else in the root folder.

CGI - PERL - SSI....web coding. CGI is a scripting language thats prolly irrelevant for a basic site.


PHP - MySQL is for database stuff usually...again prolly not needed on a small site


for a small, basic site, 100mb of storage and 1GB bandwidth should be FINE.

[jdev]

Originally posted by pito189
JC, there are a whole lot of choices...geez

http://www.fuitadnet.com/silver_plan.php

Does this seem like a good package to you joey d?

seems like a good package. you also have to look at, will you use all that? most people I see get hosting accounts that they dont need. overkill if you will. unless you are doing some serious mysql development, i dont see the need for 25 mysql databases. although, they offer it, would be a good time to learn.

another thing you will find common with webhosts (not the one I work for though) is that in their service agreement, they explicitly state that you can not use their servers for "data storage." thus the offering of 5gig packages or things of the like. its a ploy to get you to order the bigger package, and they know full well you wont use 5 gigs of space for your website.

*also*

kevmaster, on subdomains, you can have domain2.com point to domain1.com/folder.

commonly what you are referring to, something.domain1.com is called a machine name. sub domain is acceptable too, but not always applicable. like in this case:

i own www.fallingaway.com. I have a computer @ home, away from the network fallingaway.com is on. I run a shoutcast station from that home computer, so, I setup a machine name (http://osirus.fallingaway.com:8000) to connect to that computer for shoutcast, and any other outside administration I need to do.


.joe.

[Jack & Coke]

Keep it coming guys... I'm learning a lot!!!! thanks!

[jdev]

JC

what are you looking for, out of curiosoty.

i would love to help you out and offer you space on my linux server, but its not 1 million percent reliable. there are times when i may need to reboot it after some testing on the server (maybe once a month if that).

gimmie an idea, I may be able to help you with a host/plan

[pito189]

Originally posted by Jack & Coke
Keep it coming guys... I'm learning a lot!!!! thanks!

Here, here. This is some good information.

So like... Are subdomains of the Yahoo site, and the Apple site?

http://store.yahoo.com/

or

http://store.apple.com/

So by data what do they mean? Can you not keep pictures on your site? Like galleries for example?

Originally posted by joey d
unless you are doing some serious mysql development, i dont see the need for 25 mysql databases. although, they offer it, would be a good time to learn.

mysql, I have no idea what that is. Care to expand more, you obviously know your stuff.

[Jack & Coke]

joey d,

Thanks for asking...

In addition to obtaining my own domain name, I'm looking for some space to host pics, video clips, and a forum.

The purpose would be personal at first.

In about 3-6 months, I hope to start a part time freelance photography business.

I would like to gain some experience with creating, maintaining, and juggling a website in the meantime.

J&C

[Kevmaster]

yes, http://store.yahoo.com is a subdomain...although slightly different in their case as http://www.yahoo.com/store does not go anywhere. (in their case, store.yahoo.com goes to a differnt server)


data...they dont want you having a dowload site (legal or illegal content). Its their discression, but likely a gallery shouldnt be illegal. (especially a small one)

mySQL...its a database language. Unless you want an online shopping cart, a forum (made from the ground up), you wont need to know much about it

J&C:
you prolly dont need more than 50-100mb (Depending on hte size of the vids) then. Bandwidth, as I said, 1GB hosts most ALL sites. larger ones (AO for example, my site aswell) need considerably more

[ttoad4000t]

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$7 a month, its what i use, and it hasnt been down yet so far (only used it a month though)

[pito189]

That has A LOT of stuff for cheap.

How can they have an "uninteruptable power supply", do they have a power plant on site? Or a buttload of batteries sitting around?

[OfficerGoat]

PHP/MySql ... you guys are thinking WAY WAY WAY too small. He wants to do a galery... what about thumbnails? You can toss the images in your MySql dbase and have php autogenerate the thumbs, the pages, everything. Just upload your pics and boom.. done. Nearly all the code to do this can be found online, just needs some tweaking for whichever specific application.

Now the question is.... do I really think he needs php/mysql ... no most certianly not. But if you want to learn a web language I would say its the one to go with. Its FAST... which is a huge plus over any other out there. And more importantly... its free... even better

[pito189]

So when they say, you get 5 mySQL Databases, is that like having 5 AO's?

[OfficerGoat]

Yes... in theory you could host 5 vBulliten boards. You can actualy do more if you wanted to get tricky with the database design...

mySQL is just a basic database..... it just stores data in an orginized manner. That data can be text, numbers and even pictures if that pleases you.

PHP is the language most folks use to get that data you just stored onto the web. PHP dosent need a database to work.... its just when it gets really powerfull. You can use php to do worlds of "Interactive" stuff on your site... different pics on the top page everyday per example, this could be done so all you need to do is drop your pics in a directory and it grabs a new pic from that directory at random every day. Its all up to how much you want to learn.. and how much time you want to spend being a geek.

[pito189]

Originally posted by OfficerGoat
different pics on the top page everyday per example, this could be done so all you need to do is drop your pics in a directory and it grabs a new pic from that directory at random every day.

That sounds pretty sweet how it automatically grabs the pictures for you. I did it with javascript on one of my pages, but you have to enter each picture you want it to scroll through.

Any good PHP tutorials out there?

This is all good information.

[Jack & Coke]

OfficerGoat is da man!

[Hexis]

Originally posted by pito189
How can they have an "uninteruptable power supply", do they have a power plant on site? Or a buttload of batteries sitting around?

UPS power is very common in datacenters. I would call it a requirement. They can scale from a small unit that will power a single machine for long enough to shutdown nicly to a datacenter sized unit that will power all of the machines for a few hours. They can be further backed up by generators for longterm power generation when grid power is not avalible.

Small units are cheap. I have one dedicated to my TiVo.