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Because I am on a PC until I get a new mac, my connection is through a free community wireless and I want to learn how hosts work.

Google Pages?

Hmm... You may be right. I was just trying to find out if anyone had used a free host that they could recommend.

I would like to learn the workflow (ftp , organization, etc..) mainly but also server side code.

I also want to be able to show my experiments to others so they can tell me how bad my code is.

Last edited by J.D.Hogg (2007-12-17 1:42 pm)

Uh, dyndns.org will worth with any host, won't it? I doubt even a free web hosting service will roll IP addresses to break it, so inserting a static IP should work fine.

I used a free one at one point called portland.co.uk but they've since been bought and no longer offer a free service. If you can spare a few bucks you can certainly buy into really cheap hosts (I've used that one before - very good reliability and speed, just really small spaces).

but I'll second that if you're just hitting it up to figure out how things work then create a local, closed, environment. Setting it up will give you more insight into how it works than just using it.

Last edited by Gipetto (2007-12-17 3:39 pm)

I'll wait till I have a little more to upload and then go to a pay host. Thanks for the advice and links.

J.D.Hogg wrote:

Question, what do you mean by rolling IP addresses?

he means a dynamic IP address. Basically, when you dial-up your ISP you're going to get a new IP address everytime. that's why dynamic dns services are important to us poor students that host stuff from home