Domain name question with free hosting places
I posted this on another message board but they were no help.
I was "hired" by my family to build a family reunion page and I'm getting paid for it. My mom said a .com website would be nice, but she doesnt really wanna pay for hosting. I've heard of doing this before, like you buy a domain name from some company and have it automatically route it to your page on say Geocities, or Tripod. I'm going to be doing it in HTML so I dont need no page builder or anything. I just wanna have it redirect it to a page that I have hosted on Geocities or something. Thanks
The Webmistress posted this at 08:41 — 11th February 2003.
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This certainly can be done with web-forwarding but the drawback is that using free space generally means advert banners and/or pop-ups! If you can live with those annoyances then it's fine. Proper web hosting doesn't have to be expensive if you don't want/need lots of extras.
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zollet posted this at 14:31 — 11th February 2003.
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Also, by getting a real hosting package you can give email accounts (i.e. [email protected]) to your family members.
paintballdude13 posted this at 22:26 — 11th February 2003.
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Ya my mom said she could deal with adds, she doesnt really need hosting. She just wants like a domain name. Does anyone know of a good place that does web-forwarding that is cheap?
paintballdude13 posted this at 14:11 — 14th February 2003.
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The Webmistress posted this at 14:28 — 14th February 2003.
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I buy my domains that just require forwarding through 123reg.co.uk I don't know if they have a US counterpart, they don't charge for forwarding.
zollet posted this at 15:47 — 14th February 2003.
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Almost all registrars offer free domain forwarding.
paintballdude13 posted this at 18:38 — 14th February 2003.
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Ok thanks guys I was gonna tell my mom about this Here place later and probaly start working on some banners for the website in Photoshop lata.
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