Hey,

i have a friend whos interested in getting some webhosting, hes already learnt html, but hes totally new to webhosting, is there some site i can forward him to which explains domain names, registering them etc???

Any links would be greatly appreciated, i can't be bothered explaining it all to him myself :D

I'd just like to clarifying, with getting some webhosting, i meant a account to host his site, not starting up his own business :D

Originally posted by edude

i can't be bothered explaining it all to him myself :D

It get's like that sometimes :D

There are a bunch of good articles for newbies on webhostdir.com, tophosts.com, etc.

George

Originally posted by edude
Hey,

i have a friend whos interested in getting some webhosting, hes already learnt html, but hes totally new to webhosting, is there some site i can forward him to which explains domain names, registering them etc???

Any links would be greatly appreciated, i can't be bothered explaining it all to him myself :D

Have him start here: http://www.webhostingratings.com/gotchas.html

Their education section is decent.

http://thewhir.com/find/web-hosts/articles/

Good info here

There's a ton of articles here as well...

http://www.hostcompare.com/websitesarticles.htm

http://www.sitepoint.com got many guides on hosting, and if I'm not mistakling so is http://www.webhostdir.com

Don't forget to send him to unlimband.com :D

For basic TCPIP stuff and "how the net works 101" head to:

http://www.ipprimer.com/index.cfm

BIND stuff:

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/groups/systems/proj/DNS/bog.html

BIND to djbdns:

http://flounder.net/djbdns/bind-to-djbdns.html

apache:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/

bash scripting:

http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/

...that is all on the more technical side. There is a business side to webhosting, revenue, margins, etc. He can pick up a high school economics book and breeze through that in a few days.

After html, tell him to learn xhtml/css/php

Thanks guys, hes really busy now :)