Hobby Sites
My roommate bought a nice little laptop for use at school but I brought my desktop PC from home and we spent the day yesterday setting it up with a wireless network so Alex can get online with his laptop while I work on my PC. We’re sharing one good printer over the network, too. There’s no sense in both of us buying a printer, and we don’t really print much stuff except homework anyway.
Alex wants to put up a web site for his hobby, motorcycle racing. He keeps his bike out in L. A., but over the summer he was in enough races to earns good points and be contender in the west coast racing circuit. Since he won’t have to quit early to go back to school next year he expects to do even better when he can be there to finish out the entire race season.
We spent a little bit of time poking around on the internet looking for a good domain name for his web site, but didn’t find anything that really grabbed our attention. The good ones were already gone, of course.
We have to find a cheap web hosting site, too. Once we find the right domain name we have to transfer the name to a host so we can put up a template and start the site design. I’m piggybacking on my Dad’s web host account, so I’m not much help with that. Alex needs to find a host in his own name, so we started looking for a hosting site.
We’re using a site called web hosting choice that lists all the top web hosting sites and ranked them according to which ones are affordable, reliable, have excellent uptime and provide tech support. They have a chart that lists the top 10 sites and tells you how much they charge for a setup fee and their monthly charges for hosting services.
The site has links directly to each hosting site so you can sign up if you find one that you want. So now it’s up to Alex to read up on their plans and decide which one he wants. Since it is supposed to rain here all weekend and we’ll be stuck inside, I guess we’ll be designing his web site over the weekend and getting the first part of it set up on the internet.