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Posted by James Barrett
James Barrett
13,253 Points

Uploading a website with free web hosting

I would like to know how to upload a website after purchasing my domain on godaddy. I have a FTP client installed on my computer (CyberDuck) and I am not sure where to go from here. I want to use free web hosting as it just for a small project at university.

Could anyone suggest/link any resources that could be useful?

Thank you, James. :-)

peyton caseria
peyton caseria
Courses Plus Student 12,281 Points

4 mod answers :D

5 Answers

Konrad Pilch
Konrad Pilch
2,435 Points
Konrad Pilch
Konrad Pilch
2,435 Points

You could use github for hosting. Look somewhere in github area, maybe treehouse have about it.

Konrad Pilch
Konrad Pilch
2,435 Points

This would help https://help.github.com/articles/setting-up-a-custom-domain-with-github-pages/ and godaddy got great support to help you if you happen to be struggling.

Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
4,584 Points
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
4,584 Points

Come on, just google free web hosting. You will have a huge selection of websites.

Personally I have used http://www.atspace.com/ which I find to be good

James Barrett
James Barrett
13,253 Points

I was more concered with the process of getting my domain on godaddy to work with another website. I am not sure what to do.

peyton caseria
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peyton caseria
Courses Plus Student 12,281 Points
peyton caseria
peyton caseria
Courses Plus Student 12,281 Points

Heroku is nice.

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points
Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points

There are lessons on how to do it, but basically you need to get the two DNS name servers from you free hosting account, and go your godly page and find out where you can change your DNS servers, remove godaddy's servers and paste in your web host servers. It save.

Now it can take a few minutes, to a few days before web traffic gets directed to your hosting. In the meantime, you ftp your files to your host, and that should be it.

Godaddy should have articles how to change the DNS servers, and your host should have articles how to do the whole ftp process.

jason chan
jason chan
31,009 Points
jason chan
jason chan
31,009 Points

you can host your own webpage with your own computer. sign up with freedns.no-ip.com

Just have wamp or xampp stack. Or even better have like a old computer where you don't use install linux. You can make ubuntu a ftp server you have to install the package.

Or you can look for free webhost, their usually not reliable.

winscp is my favorite ftp client. You actually can go in and edit the script. or you can shared webhosting. shared webhosting is cheap.

Heroku also has free. Heroku you can diploy ruby stack or node stack.

Paid is always better. Namecheap has cheap webhosting and free domain.