I want to be a webmaster

[erwin1978]

So I woke up this morning and had an epiphany of some sort: I think I'm ready to become a webmaster and start my own hamster website. Well maybe not, but I want to start something.

I want to start my own forum. That's the main motivation for this topic. I need suggestions on which web hosting providers I should look into? There's so many to choose from. Basically, my budget is somewhere near $5/month. Is that good? I don't know how much webspace I'll need to begin with. Also, what's the minimum monthly traffic limit I should consider given that it's a forum? Do texts cost that much?

Also, is it better to get a server running Linux, Windows, Apache or whatever? Does it really matter? What kinds of extra service should I also look into? Pop emails is not that important to me at this point.

That's about it for now. I hope you enjoy answering my questions as much as I'll enjoy reading them.

 

[acidosmosis]

You can get webspace at www.powweb.com for $7.77/month with FREE setup.

You get 1GB (yes I said GB) of space.

5GB/bandwidth a DAY (this comes out to on average about 150GB of bandwith per month - and you won't get that kind of bandwidth for very cheap anywhere).

MySQL Database, SSL, PHP4, Perl5, Sendmail, SSI, cronjobs, cgi-bin
650 POP3/IMAP & SMTP accounts (so you can create 650 email addresses such as yourname@yourname.com)
24/7 FTP - 10 ftp users

more information here: http://www.powweb.com/webhosting.htm

 

[Spliffmeister]

It all depends on what you want to do and where your skills lie... if you know PHP or SQL... then get with a host that does it... if you want secure transactional type stuff then get with SSL. SMTP and POP3 are always good... as is FTP...

What do you want to do?

 

[lowman]

Good replies to this post...I'm actually starting to build mu music site and will check out pweweb..com...I appreciate the info...