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Old September 20th, 2012, 16:42
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Hello wise members of the FreeBSD forums. I come asking for advice on a domain name provider i.e godaddy, domain.com, namecheap, etc... What would be the cheapest or even the best choice. Any and all advice will be appreciated. Thanks

also sorry if I should have put this in general section I apologize. I see now that this section is server applications.)
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Old September 20th, 2012, 17:04
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Also should I install Apache through ports or packages?
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Old September 20th, 2012, 17:16
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Also should I install Apache through ports or packages?
Doesn't matter unless you want different options than the default.
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Old September 21st, 2012, 02:37
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Old September 21st, 2012, 03:45
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For the domain registrar question: many people switched away from GoDaddy recently due to their support of SOPA.
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Old September 21st, 2012, 04:50
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And he's an elephant killer.

GoDaddy always feels like buying from a used car dealer. I use namecheap but I hate that name, too.
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Old September 21st, 2012, 05:26
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pairnic.com has been fine for me. They are not cheap, but they are good and use FreeBSD.
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Old September 21st, 2012, 09:48
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Your choice of registrars also depends on the top-level domain you want to register. I would love to use pairnic.com, but unfortunately they don't offer .ca domains.
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Old September 21st, 2012, 10:04
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And he's an elephant killer.
Oh man, I thought that was an expression I hadn't heard before. He literally is an elephant killer.
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Old September 21st, 2012, 12:32
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I have used these guys for 10 plus years, no problems
http://www.enomcentral.com
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Old September 21st, 2012, 12:34
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If you are not hosting a huge commercial site, you can try pairnic's hobbiest hosting, pairlite, a little bit cheaper and still uses FreeBSD. I been using them for 3 years or so now.
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Old September 21st, 2012, 17:18
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Ok I have installed apache22 through the ports, I got my domain name from namecheap ($20.14 for two years) Http://www.OrphanSec.net/ Now this morning when I tryed to load my page I got a server timed out message. I can localhost to my webpage but cant url search for it. Could anyone help me with this?
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Old September 21st, 2012, 20:56
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DNS propagation can take time. I see an "under construction" page and dig tells me there is an A record pointing to 173.69.190.236. Is that the IP of your server?
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Old September 22nd, 2012, 01:42
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Yeah sorry I should have updated the thread. The problem was that Verizon changed my ip address over the night, so I had to go back to namecheap and change the host record to point to my server. I tryed to set up a dynamic dns through my server but they just kept sending me to dyndns and other hosting sites. Is there a trick around this. I googled and a guy said Verizon would change his ip every hour, it got so bad.

Thanks everyone for the help, much appreciated
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I moved away from GoDaddy too many little things that bugged me about them. Namecheap is pretty good, no real problems with them so far. (They are only my Registrar)
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If you're from EU, give a look to joker.com. Maybe not the cheapest one, but works ok.
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