bought a domain.. now what? lol

Okay bought my domain SunGlowExotics.com from godaddy.com.... Now what? lol Im really bad at this whole site thing...

Now you upload your site.

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Originally Posted by Patrick Long

Now you upload your site.

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Thats it? Sweet... I heard something about hosting sites? Is this the hosting site?

I was ASSuming that you already had your host since you bought the doman.

LOL, a domain is just a forwarding site to forward to your host.

When I did web designing, one of the best hosts I always found was hostmonster.com. They have really great prices, good support, and about every option you can think of for cheap. It has been about 2-3 months since I did anything but i'm sure the prices are current. If you need any help with anything shoot me a PM and i'll be more then happy to help you setup. Plus the offer you a free domain.

You should call go-daddy and see if you can get a refund, and get the one that hostmonster provides. BEFORE you do that though, check to make sure you can re-register sunglowexotics.com otherwise you may have to change it to .net or .org or change something up.

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Originally Posted by Neal

LOL, a domain is just a forwarding site to forward to your host.

When I did web designing, one of the best hosts I always found was hostmonster.com. They have really great prices, good support, and about every option you can think of for cheap. It has been about 2-3 months since I did anything but i'm sure the prices are current. If you need any help with anything shoot me a PM and i'll be more then happy to help you setup. Plus the offer you a free domain.

You should call go-daddy and see if you can get a refund, and get the one that hostmonster provides. BEFORE you do that though, check to make sure you can re-register sunglowexotics.com otherwise you may have to change it to .net or .org or change something up.

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I think im going to stick with godaddy... they provide hosting for cheap aswell... Not as cheap, but either it's not a lot of money a month... $10 a year for the domain, and like $7 a month for 150 GB of space i believe... I think there is a cheaper one, but im gonna go with the average one to be safe... And thanks for the help... I get it now... :D

You can start building your site with godaddy now, you will have 2 options

1 Free which means you will have advertising on the top

2 Pay for hosting (it will cost you less than $5 a month)

I use GoDaddy for my site (Domain and Hosting) and I am very happy with them.

The smallest hosting package will be more than enough this is what I use. ;)

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Originally Posted by Deborah

You can start building your site with godaddy now, you will have 2 options

1 Free which means you will have advertising on the top

2 Pay for hosting (it will cost you less than $5 a month)

I use GoDaddy for my site (Domain and Hosting) and I am very happy with them.

The smallest hosting package will be more than enough this is what I use. ;)

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Then i guess i'll be going with the smallest package :D Thanks for the advice, EXTREMELY appreciated! And i just found out my uncle is a website designer :confuzd: ... So now i just have to convince him to design me a site :)

Was just glad I could help. I managed a few sites up until about 2-3 months ago when I really decided it was too time consuming, and one of the guys I designed a site for always wanted to come over and interrupt my sleep instead of coming over at a time I was already up(I work nights and sleep most day).

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Originally Posted by Deborah

You can start building your site with godaddy now, you will have 2 options

1 Free which means you will have advertising on the top

2 Pay for hosting (it will cost you less than $5 a month)

I use GoDaddy for my site (Domain and Hosting) and I am very happy with them.

The smallest hosting package will be more than enough this is what I use. ;)

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Okay, i have designed my site and bought 2 months worth of hosting for $10! Now i designed my site on "Iweb", and it came out fantastic... So i downloaded "Easy Iweb Publisher 5.0", as the FTP... So i configured it, with my domain and ftp//ftp.Mydomain.com, etc. And put in my hosting username and password, and after it did the configuration check it said everything is OK! Then i dragged over the website file (i published the website to a file) to easy iweb publisher, and clicked Publish To Web... This is where the problem occurs... It says Failed to Upload Index.html blah blah blah..... Is this just because it takes a while for the hosting account to be ready? I setup my hosting account with godaddy, and it says:

"While your hosting account is now active, it typically takes between 24-48 hours before your hosting account is ready for you to upload your Web site."

Okay, well i just answered my own question while typing this.... So i guess i'll make a little use out of this... Since you have done this before, how long did it take you before you were able to upload your site?

I don't know how godaddy does things on that part as I refuse to have anything to do with them, but that's a whole different story. If they gave you ftp login details in e-mail then your account should be up and you can probably access your site from http://ipaddress/~username. They are probably just talking about waiting for DNS to propogate through the net for your domain name to resolve to the server your site is being hosted on.

When it says failed to upload blah blah, what is the exact blah blah? Is there an error code? Try just saving the site files to your hard drive and upload with an ftp program such as filezilla(good free one).

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I don't know how godaddy does things on that part as I refuse to have anything to do with them, but that's a whole different story. If they gave you ftp login details in e-mail then your account should be up and you can probably access your site from http://ipaddress/~username. They are probably just talking about waiting for DNS to propogate through the net for your domain name to resolve to the server your site is being hosted on.

When it says failed to upload blah blah, what is the exact blah blah? Is there an error code? Try just saving the site files to your hard drive and upload with an ftp program such as filezilla(good free one).

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Well, i just opened up my hosting account, and went to FTP Client.. I uploaded the my site file... I followed instructions on youtube, of how to use iweb through godaddy.. So if all goes accordingly the site should be up in about 1 hour... We'll see... A lot of the comments were saying "Thanks DUDE!" and all that, so im guessing it should work... Heres the tutorial: YouTube - iWeb to through Go Daddy - iWeb to through Go Daddy