Whats the quickest, most effective way to learn to host my own web page?

Question

I under stand you can find web host sites but would like to find a quick and reletivley simple way of first learning the basics.
Any help appreciated.

Answer 1

Sign up for a free site at someplace like geocities, tripod, angelfire, etc. Use their site builder to get something simple up in a matter of minutes. Then start playing around - crash it a few times - try some of the tricks you can find on the Internet, etc. Little hands on experience it you will be a pro in notime. (Stay away from myspace. They have that so "user friendly" that all you can do is use their interface. You can not do any real programming and learn HTML, etc).

Start with a fre site, and get your hand dirty....
Only way I know to learn it.

Answer 2

If you are currently a paid Internet subscriber, you are entitled to a "homepage" which often contains simple navigation and editing tools. You can easily generate a full-blown website as a Homepage. Nevertheless, the "homepage" URL is likely to be "http://homepage.earthlink.com/subscriber... name" and that URL can easily be overwritten via a redirection service, i.e., "mydomain.com" which allows you to link any registered domain name to "mask" another website. For example, should you type in "domainname.com", you will be immediately transported to the homepage and the hompage URL of http://homepage.earthlink.com/subscriber... name will be masked by the domainname.com. And the charge for the redirection service [even at godaddy.com] is normally FREE. Here's a demonstration: Type in the URL window: "www.pizzanextdoor.com" which will bring up their pizza website. Take note of the domain name. Then type in the URL window: "http://home.pacbell.net/vten/1a/pizzamen... and you will see that this is the original homepage which is unmasked without the domain name!

Good luck!

Answer 3

If you are serious about websites either for personal or your business, don't go to free web hosting as they are usually not reliable and you may end up losing all your hard work. Free web hosts usually put advertisements on your websites and it could be annoying.

If you like to create websites (usually you will end up more than 1 website, I got more than 100 websites in about 6 months' time), go for multiple web hosting services where you could host all your websites in one account.

I would like to suggest following webhosting which I use, they are excellent.

Hostmonster http://www.hostmonster.com/track/ryukenden/

They offer hosting of "unlimited domains" and you will get massive webspace of 300000 MB (300 GB ). They only charge $5.95/month and they offer "a free Domain Name" and installing service called "Fantastico". By using Fantastico, you could create own forum, photo gallery, shopping cart (e-commerce),your own auction site and your own blogs within few seconds. They also offer "Free Website Builder" as well.
Visit the site to check details.

Hostmonster http://www.hostmonster.com/track/ryukenden/

Domains
Following site is quite good to register domains as price is reasonable with free privacy. Some charge about $5/ year just for free privacy.

IPOWER http://www.anurl.com/?TXIBE

Answer 4

By saying you want to host your own site you are implying that you have your own server.

Most host sites have a simple guide for uploading. I used godaddy.com

I use SmartFTP to upload files to the server, it is free and very easy to use.

Answer 5

I found this site that has an article about what your talking about. Check it out

Answer 6

start with a blog

Answer 7

Try this http://dreamhost.pinologic.com

Answer 8

www.webhostingtalk.com