My first domain?

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mrfree

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.)
 
mrfree said:
Also should I install Apache through ports or packages?
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Doesn't matter unless you want different options than the default.
 
I'm a big fan of packages - you know that if the package has a problem that it should be affecting other people. If other people don't have the problem, it's your hardware :D
 
For the domain registrar question: many people switched away from GoDaddy recently due to their support of SOPA.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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?
 
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?
 
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:)
 
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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