Web Hosting

I want to start my own website up with a dedicated server/host.

I am very inexperienced on the computer.

Would this be impossible for me to set up myself?

Somedays from ehat i read i think that its totally doable but then others i think OMG!!!!

Please help me so i can then take the next step.

Cheers,

LIsa

Well, it depends on a couple of things.
1) Are you going to pay for it. If so they usually have lots of features that are user friendly that anyone can do.
2) If you aren’t going to pay for it than there’s lots of tutorials on how to. Again there are sites that are user friendly and you can easily create one, or you can do it the advanced way, which requires HTML knowledge, SQL and PHP knowledge.
3) If you are going to do it the advanced way here’s what you need:

http://www.wampserver.com/en/

This is the server.

http://www.w3schools.com/

This site is great to learn any web based programming language.

http://www.wampserver.com/en/presentation.php

This is the tutorial for the wamp server.
There will probably be little problems along the way but just Google them and it will help. One of my problems was that I couldn’t access my site because I had a router that had a feature that restricts access from the same IP, I just use a proxy for my server.
Then after you’ve got all that, you can do either of two things:
1) Set up a DNS so people type in that address to get to your website:
www.dyndns.com/
This is a great website for that.
2) Give them your ip:

http://www.whatismyip.com/

I hope this helps and doesn’t get you too blown away. I know that it is a lot of information, but it is required. Hope you have fun with it.
~Twitchy

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- good pricing model
- great security features
- 24/7 help desk (tier 1-3)
- add-on services such as shopping carts, cc processing, dns…)
- 5 9’s up time
- incremental and full backup with web access control
- other

I use and recommend Pair Networks; I believe they have everything you’re looking for.