I want to set up my own Gaming Site???

Kellth

How do i do this? How do i host it so it can be up and running 24/7. How can i edit it and all. I do now want to use a hoster like word press. I want to use code. Im learning code and very nooby and it so leave your suggestions below.

Barrikor

To have your site running:

Domain Name
- First you need a domain name, ex: example.com
- You can buy a domain name from a "domain name registrar", ex: GoDaddy
- You pay for your domain names each year, ex $15/yr
- Domain Names are cheap but add up once you have a lot of them

Web Hosting
- You rent part of a web server, to put the files for your webpage online
- You rent from a web hosting company, ex: HostGator
- You pay for the hosting each month, ex: $49/mo VPS
- Plans options are normally "Shared" | "VPS" | "Dedicated" start with Shared
- You can normally host multiple sites with the same hosting account

Web Hosting Setup
- Always pick a Linux server, other OS's will screw your site
- Make sure it's running the server software you want, ex: Apache
- Make sure the server software doesn't have core functionality disabled
- Add-on a web hosting control panel, ex: cPannel
- Make sure you can also use FTP
- Make sure it's running PHP 5 not PHP 4
- Make sure PHP doesn't have core functionality disabled
- Make sure it's got the Database you want, ex: MySQL
- Make sure your database doesn't have core functionality disabled
- Disable any M$ junk, ex: Frontpage extensions

FTP
- Install an FTP program on computer, ex: FileZilla

I didn't say anything about making the website itself since I guess that's what your other thread it for.

Kellth

Originally posted by Barrikor

To have your site running:

Domain Name
- First you need a domain name, ex: example.com
- You can buy a domain name from a "domain name registrar", ex: GoDaddy
- You pay for your domain names each year, ex $15/yr
- Domain Names are cheap but add up once you have a lot of them

Web Hosting
- You rent part of a web server, to put the files for your webpage online
- You rent from a web hosting company, ex: HostGator
- You pay for the hosting each month, ex: $49/mo VPS
- Plans options are normally "Shared" | "VPS" | "Dedicated" start with Shared
- You can normally host multiple sites with the same hosting account

Web Hosting Setup
- Always pick a Linux server, other OS's will screw your site
- Make sure it's running the server software you want, ex: Apache
- Make sure the server software doesn't have core functionality disabled
- Add-on a web hosting control panel, ex: cPannel
- Make sure you can also use FTP
- Make sure it's running PHP 5 not PHP 4
- Make sure PHP doesn't have core functionality disabled
- Make sure it's got the Database you want, ex: MySQL
- Make sure your database doesn't have core functionality disabled
- Disable any M$ junk, ex: Frontpage extensions

FTP
- Install an FTP program on computer, ex: FileZilla

I didn't say anything about making the website itself since I guess that's what your other thread it for.

Is there anyway to actually do this for free anyway to do it for cheap anyway to host your own and do all the things you listed on your own?

Barrikor

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Originally posted by Kellth
Is there anyway to actually do this for free anyway to do it for cheap anyway to host your own and do all the things you listed on your own?

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Yes, you can host it yourself but it's a real pain...

1st, you've got to have a computer that's functioning as your web server that you leave turned on 24/7.

2nd you've got to keep the security up-to-date, there's armies of viruses (and hackers behind them) trying to breach any web server they can.

Next, your ISP only gives you a limited amount of bandwidth, ex: you might be only able to have 50 people loading pages on your site at the same time before the connection bogs down. Also ISP's have rules against hosting anything, it takes them awhile to figure out though. A lot of cities only have one good ISP, so sometimes the chance of getting banned by them really isn't an option.

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If you're just learning though, you don't need to host anything yet though. You can learn HTML, CSS, and JavaScript on your home computer:

Just write the code to a text file on your desktop, save the text file as .html and open it up in Firefox and Internet Explorer.

You can wait to get a server until you start learning the back-end (ex: PHP)

Amana

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