I'm looking for Free web servers

[erwin1978]

I'm finally going to get a domain name after years of using my ISP's free webserver. I'm almost set with a name. I think all the words in the dictionary has been taken. Does anyone disagree?

I want to dive further in the realm of web programming so I thought I'd look for more feature rich web servers. My ISP only provide basic html stuff. Since my website is simple and I doubt it will garner much traffic anytime soon, I thought I'd stay with free service rather than pay $50/year when I'm the only one visiting the site and still learning the ropes. I need advice on which free providers I should look into and hopefully ones that you can personally vouch for. Googling is easy but I don't want to simply pick one on the top of the list if there are far better.

 

[QuietDad]

I use byethost.com and l4rge.com. They work well and have a good feature set.

 

[phaxmohdem]

If you're just learning, you could always download the Apache web server (or an all in one installer like WAMP (for Windows)) that would let you practice your web programming on your desktop. Or you can pull an old rig out of the closet if you have one laying around and install the web server software on that.

I'm fortunate in that my home ISP does not block port 80, so I can host my own web sites on a server in my bedroom closet (though it is limited by my 512k upstream bandwidth).

 

[erwin1978]

Yah I don't want to leave the computer on 24-7.

I just checked out 30 free web server providers. I am exhausted. I'm starting to think I should just pick one and get the ball rolling.

 

[erwin1978]

Yah I don't want to leave the computer on 24-7.

I just checked out 30 free web server providers. I am exhausted. I'm starting to think I should just pick one and get the ball rolling.

 

[zeruty]

Yah I don't want to leave the computer on 24-7.

Fo realz?

My computers stay on 24/7 just because. I hate having to boot up a computer.

 

[erwin1978]

Fo realz

 

[erwin1978]

Where can I register for a free Domain?

 

[phaxmohdem]

If you find out let me know 1and1.com does then for 8.99/year and that is about as cheap as I have found them. You could also use some sort of URL forwarding thing like TinyURL which is free... though you'd have to have somewhere to forward that url to.

 

[QuietDad]

No such then as a "free" domain. the only free domain allows you to add something infront of there domain. Some ISP's discount the $35/yr registration when you use one of there paid services. You can find yourdoain.host.domain.com for free but yourdomain.com is gonna cost you.

 

[erwin1978]

I finally registered a domain name with namecheap.com and signed up for free web hosting with another provider. I've uploaded my file to the web server. Now how do I link everything up so I can go to my website with my domain name?

 

[bunker]

You need to ask your host what it's name servers are and register the name servers with namecheap.

 

[erwin1978]

I want to know whether namecheap's name servers would be better than my host's?