DNS server...thingy?

I'mtrying to build a website for my mom, and possibly others, hosted on a server I'm building. I was looking at various tutorials, but it seems like you have to either get a thing like no-ip.org or pay every month for a dns thing, I was wondering, can you make your own/get around it? and still have a publicly viewable website


oh, and not need to be cascaid or frostbyte


not sure if any of that made sense.. I hope it did

thanks for any help!

EDIT: no, I don't know HTML yet, its on my to-do list after java

Hey Coal,

Unfortunately, if you want a plain www._______.com email address, you will have to pay to register the domain.
These usually charge per year (those charging per month are probably offering web hosting as well, which you do not need)

I personally used google apps for my last domain (though I believe they register it through a 3rd party) and it was around $10 for a year.

If you do not urgently need to claim a specific address, I would advise you use something free, like http://dyn.com/dns/ while you are just playing around and learning.
There is no real need to have the .com address until you are going live to the public.
The advantage of DynDns is that it will automatically detect your changes in IP (depends on your ISP how often your IP will change), and the address you end up with is not too obscure.

Thanks! I didn't think there was a way to get a .com free, but oh well

thanks again! I'm looking at the link as I speak(type?)

please lock this topic, cascaid told me what I needed to know

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