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TychoCelchuuu

<div class="IPBDescription">And The Wonderful Work it Entails</div> So like, say I want a website with a personalized domain name and I already have the domain name. My ISP gives me 25 megs of storage, but right now it's at home.comcast.net etc. Is there a way I can take this storage or that Netrulon storage stuff and pipe it to my customized domain name? Or do I have to sign up at one of those places where you buy the domain name and also buy their web hosting package?

im_lost

While I don't have an answer to your question, I just want to say that you shouldn't use netrulon.com for anything that you are relying on. The site is inaccessible about half the time.

Rapier7

Heh.

If you want serious webhosting and a real domain, you have to get a good web-service provider.

www.fuitadnet.com is pretty good for a starter.

As you go higher and higher up, you might consider total control servers or having your own server.

TychoCelchuuu

I don't need "serious hosting" or complete control or anything. I'm not going to make a super duper PHP XHTML Javascript CSS mega master website. It's just a small resume website. All it needs is some text and some pictures, so I don't care if I don't get much access. Do I really need to change my ISP?

Rapier7

Most corporations won't take you seriously if you have a website something like comcast.net/mywebsitehere.

Depending on what type of job you're going to get, you might have to at least get your own domain.

TychoCelchuuu

Yes, and let's say I have my own domain. Do I also need hosting coupled with that, or can I use existing hosting like my Comcast space?

im_lost

You can get a domain without hosting?

Rapier7

Yeah.

Say you only purchase a domain. You have that domain point to a certain place in webspace.

In reality, www.yahoo.com is basically just a nickname for their actual server IP. The domain masks what the real thing is.

TychoCelchuuu

That's the idea. Would I have to set up an ugly redirect to home.comcast.net or can I just use that storage on my domain name? Would I have to obtain an IP for that? Is there a guaranteed IP for that? How would I find out? I'm just trying to avoid paying ~$100 a year for this.

Delarosa

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if comcast will give you the IP/Adress for the DNS name (your www.name.com addy) to be poingted at... i'de be suprised.

you'd need to get some sort of cheap hosting... or find somone that will sub-host you and give you the adresses needed for the dns work...

i sugesst buying your own domain name, and not going with one of those packages, as many companies register it in their name, and don't give you acess to it, so you have to eiather wait for the domain to expire, or get a new name if you ever wanted to move/the company goes bust.

Chaos_Llama

<a href='http://www.myinternetservices.com/starter.html' target='_blank'>http://www.myinternetservices.com/starter.html</a>

DOOManiac

What do you want a domain for anyway? That should be a major decsion in who you get hosting from and etc.

Rob

Why don't you just do a whois on your comcast site and buy a domain to point to it, like these nice people are saying? Quick and dirty. Works. Specially the "dirty" part.

Heh-heh... I've made myself laugh.

TychoCelchuuu

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Mwark? My internet experience is limited to setting up port forwarding on my Linksys router. As far as whois goes, I thought it was an IRC command.

Venmoch

Couldn't you just use one of redirecting url thingys?

TychoCelchuuu

But that's butt ugly. You don't want to go to www.tychocelchuuu.com, look up 2 seconds later, and be at home.comcast.net/~tychocelchuuu or something.

Rob

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Mwark? My internet experience is limited to setting up port forwarding on my Linksys router. As far as whois goes, I thought it was an IRC command. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
<a href='http://geektools.com/whois.php' target='_blank'>http://geektools.com/whois.php</a>

Put your URL in there. It'll give you the IP of your webspace. You see, since humans can remember words better than numbers, we use URL's to mask the IP addresses of websites.

If you buy a mask (domain name), you can have it point to your webpage, like a redirect service. And actually, it should work fine, ie:

If someone wanted home.comcast.net/~tychocelchuuu/newfolder

they should also be able to get there with this tychocelchuuu.com/newfolder. Provided the .com points to home.comcast.net/~tychocelchuuu, of course.

iFire

I personally use Zoneedit.com to do dns relocations.
It cloaks the relocated location too.