Help Making a Site for the First Time?

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ukballer1012

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I'm familiar with coding and know how to design a site but I have never actually had one on the internet. I have a vps that I use as a minecraft server but it has two IP's so I figured I might as well just use the other one for my site. I need to register a domain, but all the results I got from Google wanted me to pay like $20/month, which I can't do. Is there anyway to pay a one time fee or to make it by yourself? Also any advice or tutorial links as to how to set up the site with my server would be helpful.
 
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Absolution

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Minecraft is fun! I think a lot of those places which want you to pay $20 a month are offering hosting services which you don't need. You can check out this topic on which places you might want to register domain names with, should only cost you $20 year for a domain. http://www.webdesignforum.com/16359-starting-new-website.html I use godaddy, but a lot of people dont like them.

To serve webpages over the net you will most likely need the apache software http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi (free) I am not too familiar with using it myself. But other people on the forum are definitely more experienced. Before you buy a domain name though make sure people can see your webpage by typing in the IP address.

One last hitch! I know for domain names you need to list a DNS server. I am not sure what you need to do for that.
 
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SiberForum

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I believe you should build a site and only then go to host it. Site should be Optimized for Search engines, and it has to be usable for visitors.
 
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chamaltatis

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First time website

ukballer1012 said:
I'm familiar with coding and know how to design a site but I have never actually had one on the internet. I have a vps that I use as a minecraft server but it has two IP's so I figured I might as well just use the other one for my site. I need to register a domain, but all the results I got from Google wanted me to pay like $20/month, which I can't do. Is there anyway to pay a one time fee or to make it by yourself? Also any advice or tutorial links as to how to set up the site with my server would be helpful.
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In fact you are still a lot better than me when I first started to make my own site. I know nothing about HTML before to be honest. The problem though for you is that, it seems like you don't like to spend anything for it. In this case, I can suggest places such as Blogger, Weebly, Webs, etc. You can still make your own domain name there and be a subdomain under their site.

It's really hard if money is the problem but I hope you can produce some soon because it's really a lot better if you spend a bit to buy a domain name and pay for your hosting.
 
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