Webhosting and Domain

[DarkCore]

Since I heard this game was built with no money and everything you used were free how did you get your webhost and your domain name? I am looking for a easy to remember domain name and a web host. So if you guys can help me out that would be great.

[Josellis]

The server the game is on has been donated as far as I know.

For the domain, I think it is some of the DEVs willing to pay a little bit of money. It doesn't cost that much. Anyway, PlaneShift is more loosing money then anything else. And the DEVs pay for us to be able to play.

[Karyuu]

The domain and host are bought and paid for using personal expenses. Acraig generously paid for the forum hosting, and I believe Talad did likewise for the PS website. We had a donated forum host for a long time, but they were no longer able to keep us around, so we had to go elsewhere. The current forum host we use is LunarPages.

You can register a domain these days very cheaply - GoDaddy offers a .com for under $10. That's what I used for my personal site. And if you Google using the term "free hosting," you are bound to get a ton of useful results. It'll take a while to weed through them, but there are a lot of hosts that offer free domain hosting without a single banner or ad in sight.

[Morele]

I only now of two free hosting agents, and neither are very good.  The first is a .tk domain (go to my.dot.tk ) which I haven't personally had any experience with, but they force an add frame at the top of the browser (so it's always there, even when you scroll down).  The other is a .co.nr domain (go to http://www.freedomain.co.nr/ ).  They are little better.  The claim "no forced adds".  There's only a forced animated .gif, which promotes .co.nr names.    they also don't give the option to have a DNS service (even a third party one), so you can't have subdomains etc.  The same people which do .co.nr, do .biz.ly (go to http://www.biz.ly/ ), which seem the best of all, but you need to have a high traffic site before they'll give you a free domain.

On top of that, I've come across a few free webhosting places that will give you a free domain name (.com, .org, etc) if you stay with them long enough (sorry, can't find link).

I still think you'd be better off though, to do what karyuu suggested an get a cheap domain name.  I've got one myself that I haven't used that much for only $12US.  I'd be carful with GoDaddy though, I've heard that if you go to register a domain, and cancel halfway though, they'll hold that domain for "premium" members, and you'll have to pay extra, or something... I could be worng.

[Josellis]

With www.dot.tk, by default you have ads, but you can very easily remove them (pop-up AND top frame) just in the control panel you get access to when you subscribe, so I say that www.dot.tk is really the best for free domains, You can also register several domains under the same account with them and have as many subdomains as you want for each domain.

[Morele]

With www.dot.tk, by default you have ads, but you can very easily remove them (pop-up AND top frame) just in the control panel you get access to when you subscribe, so I say that www.dot.tk is really the best for free domains, You can also register several domains under the same account with them and have as many subdomains as you want for each domain.

Like I said, I had no previous experience.    I guess I'd better let my guild master know he can do that for our website.

[spyke01]

Heres my 2 cents, theres several good hosts, check out webhostingstuff.com for a great search interface. I am an admin at mfhosting.com which is pretty good, small downtime, small community, but good for first commers. t35.com (may be .net) is also good and very reliable. I wouldnt go with godaddy for a domain however, here lately there has been a lot of talk about their blackmailing practices, they are also quite expensive to renew with. I charge $7.99 per domain/per year/per renew whatever same price all the time. Everyone has their preference, however paid hosting is always better, you can even get 5GB space with 250GB bandwidth for only $4.99/mo so with a little bit of money, youre good to go.

anyways, check out webhostingstuff.com or google for some good free hosts, good free domains are hard to find, a lot of them put up a page on the domain that says something to the effect of "This free domain provided by....get yours today" and redirects to your site after around 10 minutes