Free Web space provider + Domain

[Cool G5]

I am planning to make a website cum blog.
I am in search of a hosting space provider + domain.
Which is good?
110mb?frihost?
Also i want maximum space possible also php is welcome.
Plz let me know on the same.

[debsuvra]

If u want to make some blog then there are two best options available to u. Those two softwares are Wordpress ans Movable Type. And I think that Wordpress is better and more customizable than the other one. Movable Type is available in two flavors, one is free and another is paid. The free one is kind of simple one. You can better opt for Wordpress.

There are some new free hosting provider sites are spawning from the wild. Please make your choice carefully to have the best free service here. I think you have to do some try and error method in that case. But all I want to say that x10hosting is not good enough for now. It's ad free servers are facing several problems from the last month. Also frihost is facing some 500 error there, I think you know it.

You can buy a domain name for your site via godaddy or yahoo for almost Rs 350/year. This will be really helpful, if you are trying to make a mark in the blogosphere.

[ico]

My friend is hosting his site on www.stuffhost.net. You can try it but I don't really know how good is it.

I am on x10hosting, and it is facing a lot of problems at the moment.

[ravi_9793]

Dont look for free hosting.......better invest few bucks .
paid hosting is far better than free hosting in many aspects.

[nvidia]

110mb wont give you cpanel.
And stay away from x10hosting

[utsav]

I would suggest that for paid hosting go for ravi s hosting and for free hosting contact me. u can also do what debsuvra said and getting a domain name is must if u r seriously stepping into the web world

[Sukhdeep Singh]

Free Webhosting
Well plenty of them are there with different terms and conditions. This forum is spcially dedicated to this stuff only
http://freewebspace.net/forums/

Free Domain
Very difficult to get a free TLD. You can use .uni.cc .tk. co.nr for free though. I suggest .uni.cc since it offers DNS aswell and rest of them are just URL redirection service

www.netfirms.net

[dotcommakers]

i can give you free hosting.. and free subdomain too if u wish.. pm me if interested.

i will give you space from my account so be sure that.. it will be up till My site is up and i am sure my site will be always up till I am alive [i am not talking about host downtimes!!!!]

[slugger]

Originally Posted by Sukhdeep Singh

Free Domain
I suggest .uni.cc since it offers DNS aswell and rest of them are just URL redirection service

if the site is hosted @ blogspot what can I do with d DNS service?

or will I have to choose the web forwarding option?

[victor_rambo]

Originally Posted by slugger

if the site is hosted @ blogspot what can I do with d DNS service?

or will I have to choose the web forwarding option?

As kar as I know, you can't do anything in that situation because you neither own the domain nor its subdomian. I think you want your blogspot blog moved to your domain. Did you try the advanced setup in that case?

[slugger]

in the domain settings at uni.cc, i select Web forwarding option and so domainname.blogspot.com becomes domainname.uni.cc and everything works fine

But, in the Domain settings section thesre is anothe option called DNS which says

For advanced users. The DNS service makes possible to redirect the traffic of all ports (FTP,HTTP,MAIL,IRC, etc.) to the address you want.

so wat i want to know is that what can i do with it as my blog bieng hosted at blogspot?

[victor_rambo]

Originally Posted by slugger

in the domain settings at uni.cc, i select Web forwarding option and so domainname.blogspot.com becomes domainname.uni.cc and everything works fine

Oh, I thought you wanted it the other way round: blogname.blogspot.com redirecting to yoursite.uni.cc. Sorry for the confusion

Originally Posted by slugger

But, in the Domain settings section thesre is anothe option called DNS which says

so wat i want to know is that what can i do with it as my blog bieng hosted at blogspot?

Does blogspot allow IRC, IMAP, POP3,etc? no
So you won't find them useful.

Basically DNS settings indicate on which server is your website residing. Eg: www.google.com resides on server which as a IP location of 67.288.187.99
The DNS stores the value of that server address.

For blogs hosted on blogspot.com, blogspot has already done that and you will not need to do it!

[ravi_9793]

U cant convert your yoursite.blogspot.com into yoursite.uni.cc because it requires new CNAME records.

[slugger]

i came across these 2 posts

How do I use a custom domain name on my blog?

How do I create a CNAME record for my custom domain?

and wanted to try out the steps, but for reason the uni.cc site isn't opening here and so i'm unable to try it out

any way i shall try them out as soon as i am able to access my uni.cc control panel and will keep you all updated

[The Unknown]

www.9999mb.com (10GB space, 100GB b/w).

PHP 4, MySQL4.

One click install of blogs & forums.

GUI editor.

[Sukhdeep Singh]

Originally Posted by ravi_9793

U cant get convert your yoursite.blogspot.com into yoursite.uni.cc because it requires new CNAME records.

No Ravi, they can

Here is the process i can think of Slugger

1. Go to http://www.everydns.net/ and register a account
2. Add your uni.cc domain first and manage the domain records. Add the cName Record
http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.p...58317#everydns

3. Enter ns1.everydns.net, ns2.everydns.net at Uni.cc Panel
4. If all is correct, your uni.cc domain should work like a standard .com

Does blogspot allow IRC, IMAP, POP3,etc? no
So you won't find them useful.

With the help of DNS service, the uni.cc will work exactly like a full TLD works. 8)

[The Unknown]

Originally Posted by Sukhdeep Singh

No Ravi, they can

Here is the process i can think of Slugger

1. Go to http://www.everydns.net/ and register a account
2. Add your uni.cc domain first and manage the domain records. Add the cName Record
http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.p...58317#everydns

3. Enter ns1.everydns.net, ns2.everydns.net at Uni.cc Panel
4. If all is correct, your uni.cc domain should work like a standard .com




With the help of DNS service, the uni.cc will work exactly like a full TLD works. 8)

www.editdns.net & www.xname.org are much popular. I am using www.editdns.net for my domain and my friend's domain & XNAME as backup NS.

EditDNS rocks! All features except Email hosting, URL forwarding, Email forwarding.

Free accts-

Email hosting- 1 domain

URL & Email forwarding- 5 per domain

Accts which donate at least $5 between 6 months get full features.

And the best of all is- Unlimited domains & records.

Subdomains also available you.resolvme.com && you.mydyn.net

Dynamic DNS also available.

[Sukhdeep Singh]

^^ Yep, i know about EditDNS. I myself use it I dont use EveryDNS

But i posted Everydns because the steps are properly mentioned for it at Blogspot.....but hey EvryDNS is bigger provider than Editdns.net

[The Unknown]

Originally Posted by Sukhdeep Singh

^^ Yep, i know about EditDNS. I myself use it I dont use EveryDNS

But i posted Everydns because the steps are properly mentioned for it at Blogspot.....but hey EvryDNS is bigger provider than Editdns.net

but i think EveryDNS puts limits. rite ? That is the reason why i did not join EveryDNS. EdiDNS appears in the 3rd or 4th page of Google Result (search= Free DNS hosting).

[slugger]

do i need to register for a thrid party DNS service?
after changing my settings to DNS when I went to my control panel, I saw this option selected by default



it also says it will take 24 hours form my site to be updated on their DNS servers

without registering in any 3p DNS service when i try to access my site domainname.uni.cc i get this message



so does this mean that i can use uni.cc own DNS without having to register in any other DNS service?

also what is the difference between a simple re-direct and using their DNS system?
1 thing that I can think of is that if I use the simple redirect option, my site may face problems with anti-phisihng filters

but how is DNS better?

[debsuvra]

@ Slugger, Do u have some website in dedicated hosting ? If so, then your hosting provider has some name servers like "ns1.xxx.xxx" and "ns2.xxx.xxx". Those are the DNS info u are looking for.

In a simple redirect like co.nr services, there will be only the redirection address showing in the address bar even if u are visiting some other pages in the site except index page. For example, if some site has xxx.co.nr address, then when u are visiting the index then it will show in the address bar, but also when u are visiting any other pages like xxx.co.nr/yyy.html, the address bar will not show anything other than xxx.co.nr.

But in case of a DNS configured service like uni.cc, when u are visiting any sub domain or other pages than the home page, you will have xxx.uni.cc/yyy.html in the address bar.

[Sukhdeep Singh]

^^ Thats Correct.

Slugger just follow the steps i posted in
Free Web space provider + Domain

[slugger]

ok got it

CNAME value i selected is ghs.google.com

the name servers that i selected [ie copy-pasted in my uni.cc control panel] are
ns1.everydns.net
&
ns2.everydns.net

and have updated it in my uni.cc control panel

also what is the use of this option (highlighted in red)

[Sukhdeep Singh]

Thats DNS service at uni.cc which works for basic purposes with A and MX records but Blogger needs CNAME records which uni.cc doesnt offer

[The Unknown]

@slugger, i also was in such a problem when i initially used a uni.cc domain to learn domain management. I suggest you to learn the basics of DNS. just Google and you'll get tons of resources.

[slugger]

now i seem to be facing another problem with accesing the blog

although it is not yet 24 hours since i updated my DNS info in my uni.cc, i tried accesing the site

earlier [say around 8 hours back] when i tried accesing the site i got this message with the uni.cc logo

DNS not updated........
.....will take 24 hours

[forgot the exact message, but this is the summary]

however now when i tried doing this this is what I got

Screenshot number 1



this is what my uni.cc control panel is looking like right now

Screenshot number 2



and this is what my everydns control panel looks like

Screenshot number 3



cahce checking on openDNS (through a link in everyDNS page) gave me this result

Screenshot number 4



i have even changed the domain name in my blogger settings to http://sitename.uni.cc in the advanced settings

what could be going wrong here?

funny thing i noticed right now

in the first screenshot there is a link called cache checking

i click on it and the result i got from this is

Screenshot number 5



how is it it showing 2 completely different results for the same site when i click on the link provided in 2 different location (when i do cache checking from my everyDNS control panel i get the screnshot number 4, whereas when i do it frm the link given in d screenshot number 1 i get the result in screenshot 5)??

[Sukhdeep Singh]

You should have not deleted the A records at EveryDNS. Just add a CNAME Record as per instructions

[The Unknown]

@slugger, please listen to me. Google for a guide and learn it. It won't take you more than 15 Minutes to learn it if you do it with full concentration. Its somewhat boring and dry but if you don't understand something just ping up here or PM me/Sukhdeep Singh.

[slugger]

oops!!!

now do i have to add A record values to the domain in everyDNs?

if so can you please tell me what the values must be?



EDIT
@the_unknown

ur post appeared while i was composing mine, so dint read it

ok i shall do it

actually last night when i did search [very briefly though] for "DNS management" it came up with all kinds of services rather than tutz

n e way i will go thrught them more seriously now and will tell you what comes up
than