[wplug] domain question

[Andrew Fisk]

You are fine with the registration process -- when you register the  
address the company you register with will normally provide the DNS  
services.  I am not sure that for the $20.00 per month you will get  
any kind of failover service -- if you need to keep the site up that  
badly you can find a hosting company for about $25.00 per year that  
will host your site on their servers and maintain some kind of backup  
for you.  I think that Godaddy is running some kind of promotion with  
$1.99 registration when you buy even a low end hosting plan.

I use EasyDNS, the DNS service is rock solid and they provide a backup  
mail server so if mine should ever go down they "store" the mail until  
the server is back up and then forward it  -- they are a little more  
expensive than godaddy though.



Andy
Spitfire Computer Services
Suite 19
2301 Duss Ave.
Ambridge, PA 15003
Phone (412) 749-0162
fax: (602) 476-8868
andy at spitcomp.com
www.spitcomp.com



On Jul 18, 2008, at Friday, July 18, 20086:17 PM, Zach Uram wrote:

> I wanted to get my own domain but I've never done it before. I guess I
> go find a domain registrar and pay around $20 and the domain is mine
> for a year. So once I have the domain how do I set it up so that if
> someone goes to www.mydomain.org it will automatically redirect them
> to http://my-public-ip and I want the URL bar to only show
> "www.mydomain.org" and never the IP of my webserver. Will I have to
> run my own DNS servers? Never did that either. Also what if my machine
> goes down (I run low end SDSL, power outage or whatever reason), how
> can I set up the domain so that if my IP is down it will automatically
> send them somewhere else such as http://my-backup-ip but still show
> "www.mydomain.org" ? Running Ubuntu. Later I would like to add mail
> services but for now I'm just worried about setting up a domain for a
> web presence.
>
> Zach
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