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Polyamorph
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Hi fellow physicists,
I'd like to create my own website. I already have my own webpages currently hosted on a university server but my account will soon be deactivated and I will no longer be able to use that server. So I would like to transfer my personal webpages elsewhere. The trouble is I have no experience doing this and don't know where to start.
I think that I would need to do the following:
1) Buy a website domain - where is the best place to buy this and would I need to keep paying every year or once I buy the domain name do I keep it forever?
2) Find a host server - again where do I find this and is it costly
3) Upload my webpages - what's the best way to do this, currently I use an SSH client to update my website on the university server and this works well, just replacing the html files when I update them. It would be good to find an equally easy way of doing this.
I'm hoping it will be a relatively simple process but as I said I've never done it before so don't know where to start doing a simple google search doesn't really help because there are so many commercial sites out there. I just want to know the procedure and tips on the best hosts etc. to use. Hope that's clear,
Thanks in advance for your help.
I'd like to create my own website. I already have my own webpages currently hosted on a university server but my account will soon be deactivated and I will no longer be able to use that server. So I would like to transfer my personal webpages elsewhere. The trouble is I have no experience doing this and don't know where to start.
I think that I would need to do the following:
1) Buy a website domain - where is the best place to buy this and would I need to keep paying every year or once I buy the domain name do I keep it forever?
2) Find a host server - again where do I find this and is it costly
3) Upload my webpages - what's the best way to do this, currently I use an SSH client to update my website on the university server and this works well, just replacing the html files when I update them. It would be good to find an equally easy way of doing this.
I'm hoping it will be a relatively simple process but as I said I've never done it before so don't know where to start doing a simple google search doesn't really help because there are so many commercial sites out there. I just want to know the procedure and tips on the best hosts etc. to use. Hope that's clear,
Thanks in advance for your help.