Advice on setting up a website?

Ice Rich · 24 Jan 2006 at 21:04

Hello all,

Ive been thinking of settings up a website to help promote business of my main job.

How would I go about registering a domain and what sort of costs are involved.

I have no problem with the maintence of creating the site (html side) its just getting it up and running that im confused about

Thanks

Rich

Chaos · 24 Jan 2006 at 21:32

To register a domain use a company like http://www.register1.net/ or http://www.123-reg.co.uk/ then get some hosting there should be a sticky with good hosting reviews, then you log into the site that created your domain and edit the setings for it to point to your hosting.

Jotun · 24 Jan 2006 at 21:35

http://www.ochostreview.co.uk/

It costs very little, currently my host (ran by someone on these forums i believe), is £30 for 12 months (got an offer so it's 18 months though

), which gets me 350mb webspace and 25gig bandwidth, which is enough for a modest size site i'd imagine.

Most webhosts also register domains for you, so you don't have to bother with doing a whole lot really

Beansprout · 24 Jan 2006 at 22:06

www.ochostreview.co.uk

robjf · 24 Jan 2006 at 22:27

For the domain registration i cannot recommend registron.co.uk highly enough. Incredibly efficient service and very easy to use. The customer support is also very good, and the prices are damn cheap too, hence why i have 4 domains with them currently (i think).

Rob

Beansprout · 24 Jan 2006 at 22:53

Yup - and Adz is updating it to give it the ability to update domain details, child nameservers (I think) and possibly more. Probably because I bug him so much

robjf · 24 Jan 2006 at 23:00

Beansprout said:
Yup - and Adz is updating it to give it the ability to update domain details, child nameservers (I think) and possibly more. Probably because I bug him so much

Ah cool, thatll be a good thing to have, any ETA you know?

Rob

killsta · 24 Jan 2006 at 23:39

Beansprout said:
Yup - and Adz is updating it to give it the ability to update domain details, child nameservers (I think) and possibly more. Probably because I bug him so much

http://register1.net have offered that from the start, and are cheaper

Beansprout · 24 Jan 2006 at 23:43

killsta said:
http://register1.net have offered that from the start, and are cheaper

I have a complete API system for GTLDs, I only use Registron for .co.uk domains - and if you want to go down the price route then 1&1 are the cheapest in the UK (£1.99/year + VAT last time I checked, which is mad) but I a) hate 'em and b) want to keep all my .uk domains in one place

Plus, for the sake of a few pence, I'll use a friend's services

Adz · 24 Jan 2006 at 23:57

Beansprout said:
Plus, for the sake of a few pence, I'll use a friend's services

Plus we're a fully paid up member of Nominet, vote in the PAB elections, etc etc

.

zetec452 · 25 Jan 2006 at 07:40

Beansprout said:
Probably because I bug him so much

Im glad your the not the only one

I've got quite a number of domains is registron, great service.