You register with a registrar (I think is the correct term), who gives you a domain name. you point the domain name at a nameserver (two actually, minimal), and you give the dns servers (the nameservers, I believe) the IP address to your actual server.
On 3/2/2011 6:49 PM, Alex Hall wrote:
Okay, so I register with one of these nameservers, giving them my domain name (mydomain.ext) and I also tell them the ip of my server? On 3/2/11, Littlefield, Tyler<tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:The point of a nameserver is to provide redundancy; if one fails, there is another one in backup. One specification is that they are on separate systems, to help with the redundancy. Essentially the nameservers run dns servers, which send out the records for the dns requests. That's about as much of it as I understand. On 3/2/2011 4:04 PM, Alex Hall wrote: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.-- Thanks, Ty __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind-- Thanks, Ty __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind
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