Re: a bit ot: servers
- From: Alex Hall <mehgcap@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 18:04:17 -0500
I was hoping to avoid a monthly or yearly bill, though having root
access does sound nice. While it may be more work, is it possible to
register a domain on my own server (that converted pc)? What exactly
do you mean by a nameserver, and how is it different from the server
you get when you install apache or a similar program?
On 3/2/11, Littlefield, Tyler <tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello Alex, First, you can save a lot of the trouble by grabbing up a
> linode. $20/m gets you a sweet server, and it's your own. It's a vps
> system, but you get root so you can do whatever you want. They also run
> their own DNS servers, so you don't need to do dns yourself. Let me know
> if this is something you are interested in, I have a refer code. What
> you need to do is find someone that hands out domain names, then point
> that domain at a nameserver.
> On 3/2/2011 3:44 PM, Alex Hall wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> I am in a class in which we have to download WAMP. I did, and I also
>> got Django (a Python web framework) since I love Python and had never
>> tried Django before. After using it, I really like it and I am toying
>> with setting up an old pc of mine as a server. It would be low
>> traffic, probably no more than a hundred visitors at a time (and
>> usually few to none), but I really like the idea of having control
>> over everything instead of renting space where I have to shell into it
>> and cannot add, for example, libraries or upgrades.
>>
>> My question is: I had a domain registered, but I let it lapse. It was
>> through ipowerweb.com. First, can I re-register it for less somewhere
>> else, paying whomever gets paid for this sort of thing directly?
>> Second, is it possible to have that domain point to an ip of my
>> choice, namely my Apache server's ip? If so, how would I configure
>> this?
>>
>> Thanks in advance. When I google stuff like this, I only get offers
>> for cheap domain registration, but they all come with server plans,
>> which I do not want.
>>
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