If you’ve even briefly considered setting up your own domain with Google Apps, consider that after May 10, any new Apps “Standard Edition” sign-ups are limited to 10 users, requiring a Business Edition purchase to go beyond that limit. More »
As we covered in our lessons on how to create a website, getting your site online can take a little effort. Coralrift, on the other hand, lets you pick a name for your site, drag your site onto a drop area, and click a button to upload it. It’s basically instant website deployment. More »
Not everyone has the time or inclination to build and maintain a full-fledged web site. If you’re just looking for a simple way to unify all your online profiles, these personal landing pages are a perfect fit. More »
Whether you’re looking to share photos with family or trying to start your own online business, code-free web site builder Moonfruit aims to cover your needs. More »
If you’re running your own web site, or planning to, you probably know exactly what kind of space, bandwidth, and features you’ll need, along with a price point. HostMonk finds web hosts based on those preferences. The site boasts of pricing and listing more than 2,500 hosting packages from a wide variety of companies, and it does offer up the nitty-gritty details on each one, including their server and headquarters locations, managed or unmanaged status, processor types, Linux or Windows, and all the basic numbers and prices. It seems to tend away from the big names in hosting, but could also net you a pretty sweet deal on data pricing, if you’re willing to shop around. It doesn’t offer point-by-point comparison selection or comparison, unfortunately, but otherwise delivers the numerical goods without your having to endlessly Google around. Free to use, though many links are connected to affiliate systems.
HostMonk [via MakeUseOf.com]Having your own hosted web domain has never been cheaper, or easier, with the vast array of free resources out there. Here are our ten favourite tools to help anyone launch and maintain their internet presence. Photo by Jasison_Judd.
If you’ve ever wondered what hosting provider your favourite website uses, the WhoIsHostingThis web site can help.Simply enter the domain name of the site that you want to know more about, and WhoIsHostingThis will reveal and link to the web host in question. This application could be useful if you need to file a complaint for abuse of your copyrighted photos or blog posts, if you are tasked with researching the competition for work, or maybe you just want to host your personal website at the same place your favourite website does.
WhoIsHostingThisRunning a home web server and need to lock it up? Want to set up standard hosting for multiple sub-domains? Don’t worry about tinkering with Apache server’s arcane .htaccess file, just tell the .htaccess Editor webapp what you’re looking for. The site’s interface is a good deal better than many of its ilk, meaning you can usually guess what it’s asking for and why. For budding web tinkerers and those with their own storage space, .htaccess Editor is a time-saving tool worth checking out.
The bavatuesdays blog points out a publish-to-blog feature that seems to have quietly crept into Google Documents. Not much to crow about if you’re perfectly happy with your blogging platform’s built-in editor, but Google Docs can seemingly publish to most any blog, even those on hosted servers. Combined with linked tools like Google Notebook, it could make for a nicer thought-compiling and drafting experience for anyone who’s an avid online writer. The feature can be found in the “Publish” tab on the right-hand side of a Docs page. Publishing Google docs to your blog [bavatuestdays via OUseful Info/del.icio.us]
Want your very own web site address, but don’t want to mess with pay-for hosting packages or server configuration? Today you can buy a domain name for around 10 bucks a year (or less) and map it to a variety of free web-based apps for no-mess and no-cost hosting. Typical commercial web hosting starts at around $100 a year and comes with clunky webmail and apps you have to set up yourself. Instead, you can have a full-featured web site with multiple spacious email accounts, blog or static web page hosting, and other services for free. You don’t have to lease server space or run your own server to have your own URL. Let’s take a look at how you can set up a complete domain name backend for free. More »
