Domains and hosting?

[naerae]

Hello. Could you give some details about domains and hosting? I wish to create my own site dedicated to music . So what should I do? Do you recommend buying domains and hosting from the very same company or choose I different companies for doing that? Lastly do you recommend any domain and hosting company?
Thanks.

[futz]

Hello. Could you give some details about domains and hosting? I wish to create my own site dedicated to music . So what should I do?
Build the site offline first. Install Apache2 for local testing. Configure it to do SSI, PHP, Perl, Python or whatever you need. When you're at least semi-ready, buy your domain and hosting and upload the site. Have fun.


Do you recommend buying domains and hosting from the very same company or choose I different companies for doing that? Lastly do you recommend any domain and hosting company?
I buy both from same company - Hypermart. I highly recommend http://hypermart.com for hosting. I have 3 accounts there, and have had for many years. Their new "One" package is very good, and reasonably priced (the multi-tier packages are gone now). 300GB of storage space and 3 terabytes of traffic per month. You get all the usual CGI stuff, like SSI, PHP, Python, Perl, etc. Hosting is $166.80 US for 2 years at a time.

You can register domain names there too. Their discounted rate for 3 year registration is something like $33 US. $11/year is pretty competitive, I think.

[Cyfr]

I use dreamhost (http://dreamhost.com) They seem to offer a lot of bandwidth/storage for the price.

Its something like $110 for 200GB storage, 2TB bandwidth and it increases every week by 16GB..

I like them, but they've recently told me I can't run my CGI http-proxy because it takes up too much resources, and I have a problem with one of my domains being slow to load.. and they havn't managed to solve the problem :(