Quick Question

[SlashTek.com]

Hello All

I've been searching for a free host that matches my needs for quite a while now. I've read this board and used the advanced search feature but none that is ok. So I would like a paid one that accepts money orders and has per-year prices.

Here's what I need:

~50Mb space
~1 gig transfer
CGI or PHP
no banners

CGI would be better then PHP

Thanks

Flash


P.S oh, byt the way, how many gigs of transfer should I need? I'm stating a site with alot of text info/pictures.

[Chicken]

Originally posted by SlashTek.com
P.S oh, byt the way, how many gigs of transfer should I need? I'm stating a site with alot of text info/pictures.

Put another way...

For a wedding reception, you need to wrap a ribbon (with fancy bow) around a lot of roses, to give to all the guests. I'm not going to tell you how many roses you should give to each guest (each guest gets between 1 and 10, but I'm not going to tell you how many... yet).

Q: *Exactly* how many feet of ribbon do you need?

(If you can solve this math problem, you get free hosting for life from Chicken) :D

Ok, this isn't fair, I'll make it easier. Each guest gets 3 roses each.

(Get this and you only get a year's worth of free hosting).

[Valuablehost]

3 feet? :D :D :D


Originally posted by Chicken


Put another way...

For a wedding reception, you need to wrap a ribbon (with fancy bow) around a lot of roses, to give to all the guests. I'm not going to tell you how many roses you should give to each guest (each guest gets between 1 and 10, but I'm not going to tell you how many... yet).
*Exactly* how many feet of ribbon do you need?

(If you can solve this math problem, you get free hosting for life from Chicken) :D

Ok, this isn't fair, I'll make it easier. Each guest gets 3 roses each.

(Get this and you only get a year's worth of free hosting).

[Chicken]

Originally posted by Valuablehost
3 feet?

Ohhhhhhhhh, sooooo close!

Ok, last clue (and this'll only get ya' 6 months free...)

Each rose will require exactly 7 inches of ribbon to wrap and make the fancy bow.

(Hel, because I'm feeling generous, if you get the right answer, I'll bump it back up to life-time free hosting again!)



Note to self: Do not take threads off topic.

[SlashTek.com]

In Flash's Opinion, it would depend on how many guests there is :D

lol,

Thanks Chicken

ok, lets say I have 100 visitors / day and each one loads 1 page and 19 pics each : page = 4kb plus pics = 20kb each

so It would make : 1.0986328125 GB / month

but I think there will be more then 100 and 19 pics each, so just to be sure I'll make it 2 or 3 gigs :)

Thanks chicken, people like you make us feel dumb, lol :D

Flash




Originally posted by Chicken


Put another way...

For a wedding reception, you need to wrap a ribbon (with fancy bow) around a lot of roses, to give to all the guests. I'm not going to tell you how many roses you should give to each guest (each guest gets between 1 and 10, but I'm not going to tell you how many... yet).

Q: *Exactly* how many feet of ribbon do you need?

(If you can solve this math problem, you get free hosting for life from Chicken) :D

Ok, this isn't fair, I'll make it easier. Each guest gets 3 roses each.

(Get this and you only get a year's worth of free hosting).

[Chicken]

Originally posted by SlashTek.com
Thanks chicken, people like you make us feel dumb, lol :D

Heh, the intent wasn't to make you feel dumb, just have a bit of fun and point out that you were leaving out some information. Funny thing is that I'll ask a similar question to my 3rd graders and they'll just sit and guess numbers for 10 minutes. One smart kid will figure out that you can't get an answer. :D

Why does http://slashtek.com/ get me to hotmail?

[SlashTek.com]

So, you'r a teacher?

[ do I still get my hosting? ] lol :D

Why the heck!!!!!!!!
I keep playing with the settings on mydomain to make my domain work on it but I always get 404 errors!!!
Somehow you get to the page I've pointed it to to test it up, but here it dosnt wok, I refresh, test with netscape, IE , delete temp Inet, clear history and everyhting and it still dosnt work.

To go on the site, goto http://www.SlashTek.com
there's also test.slashtek.com withis supposed to goto altavista gives me a 404 error...... weird huh, I emailed mydomain and they said everyhitng was fine but Its not fine @ here :)

Flash

[SlashTek.com]

oh, and btw,

SlashTek.com is not the site I intent to boost bandwidth, this site is ok with 100Mb / month :)

I'm planning to start a Car Site and link it up to the "SlashTek Network" haha :D

Flash

[Chicken]

I get...
http://slashtek.com/ = hotmail
http://www.slashtek.com/ = nothing
http://test.slashtek.com/ = altavista

and yeah... teacher... moderating doesn't pay... errrr... at all :D


Edit: slight typo that mattered, heh.

[Dusty]

Q: *Exactly* how many feet of ribbon do you need?A roll of unlimited length? ;)

[SlashTek.com]

At my house,

only www.slashtek.com works
its beegin redirected to the portland namerserver's IP............

try

http://SlashCars.slashtek.com
and
http://SlashGames.slashtek.com

You'r suppoed to get a "comming soon" page

What could be wrong with
http://slashtek.com/
http://www.slashtek.com/
http://test.slashtek.com/

????

I'v done everyhting and still........

Thanks

Flash

[Chicken]

DNS might...

1) ...not have been setup correctly.
2) ...not have propagated yet.

[Chicken]

Some problems with the DNS set up...



DNS records
name class type data time to live
www.slashtek.com IN A 212.15.64.25 86399s (23h 59m 59s)
www.slashtek.com IN A 212.15.64.83 86399s (23h 59m 59s)
www.slashtek.com IN NS ns1.mydomain.com 86399s (23h 59m 59s)
www.slashtek.com IN NS ns2.mydomain.com 86399s (23h 59m 59s)
www.slashtek.com IN NS ns3.mydomain.com 86399s (23h 59m 59s)
www.slashtek.com IN NS ns4.mydomain.com 86399s (23h 59m 59s)
www.slashtek.com IN SOA server: ns1.mydomain.com
email: hostmaster@www.slashtek.com
serial: 1002903018
refresh: 16384
retry: 2048
expire: 1048576
minimum ttl: 2560
2559s (42m 39s)
www.slashtek.com IN MX preference: 0
exchange: m.dnsix.com
86399s (23h 59m 59s)
www.slashtek.com IN MX preference: 0
exchange: m1.dnsix.com
86399s (23h 59m 59s)
25.64.15.212.in-addr.arpa IN PTR ns1.portland.co.uk 8640s (2h 24m)

[Chicken]

Why two:



www.slashtek.com IN A 212.15.64.25 86399s (23h 59m 59s)
www.slashtek.com IN A 212.15.64.83 86399s (23h 59m 59s)


and no record for slashteck.com IN A ______________________ ???

[SlashTek.com]

Isnt it the nameservers IP

since POrtland has 2 nameservers, I've put 2 IP's.......

isnt it this?

Oh well, :D

Please help me chcken on how I might make this work

Oh, btw, I tested my site on almost every computer @ school, asked 6 friends and it works on thease PC :
test.slashtek = altavista
slashtek.com = hotmail
www.slashtek.com = cannot display page

And Im the only one wich still "has" the old DNS settings......

I dunno what should I do....

It's ben more then 48 hours now and all whoises have mydomain as nameservers so it propagated on the net quite fast ( 1 hour ) since I changed the nameservers 2 days ago but Im still "accesing the old settings"

I **Think** It's my Inet connection that does this ( Sounds dumb, but its the only thing that might do that). I know there's no way for my ISP to have control over this so its not a possibility. So if not, what the hell is wrong with ME! :mad:

Flash

[Chicken]

Originally posted by SlashTek.com
Isnt it the nameservers IP

since POrtland has 2 nameservers, I've put 2 IP's.......

Ummm, no. I think you are confused. Simple explanation of how this works...

At registrar (place you registered the domain), you enter in ns1.yourhost.com which is the nameserver that is has the zone file for your domain (zone file is what I posted above, and contains all the needed info for your domain for mail, the site, etc.) In this case you are trying to do this from mydomain.com so this would be ns1.mydomain.com.

Mydomain.com has an easy web-interface that allows you to modify the zone file for your domain. You type in some entries in various fields and everything is saved. Time for the changes to actually work depends on them, but give it 24-48 hours just in case.

Now, you wouldn't use mydomain.com's nameservers to point to portland's nameservers, this isn't how it works. Pick one.

From here, the aim is to point the domain (and various other services) to the proper server that will be handling those services. Often everything is handled using one server, but just in case it isn't, this is where you control everything.

An easy example of what I mean is if you wanted everyone.net to handle the email for your domain. Your DNS zone file needs to be set properly for this to happen.

Now, the settings aren't magic. You can't just pull IP's out of your donkey and expect it to work. It won't.

The server your site will be on needs to be set up to serve pages for your domain. Again, not magic. This isn't something you can do, this is something the server admin does. Your site is either given a dedicated IP or you'd be given a shared IP (the server itself redirects your domain further as needed). It is this IP that you should be entering:


www.slashtek.com IN A xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 86399s
slashtek.com IN A xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 86399s
This could be either a shared IP or a dedicated IP, it doesn't matter as long as it matches how the domain was set up on the server itself (again, the admin does this, not you).

Basically, you need to get the domain to the server that has your pages (if you want to think of it like that).

[SlashTek.com]

yahoo!!!!!

48 hours after all world's computers mine uses the new DNS settings !! :)

ok, now chiken

help me set u the A thing for www.slashtek.com

how does it work?

I used portland dns at first (before mydomain)

now how do I set this up?

I had a dommain account on portland
not subdomain

Flash

[Chicken]

I hope you've been able to read a bit on mydomain on how to set this up. I've been away ummm... having a son :D

If not (you lazy bastage! :D) then simply, you need either the server IP or the dedicated IP that your host has set up for you. Tell me where this domain is to be hosted. Ask them what the IP of the site should be.

Set up

www IN A xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
@ IN A xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

I can't remember exactly how mydomain work but I know they have some support docs there that you should read.