Sam Nichols Posted October 1, 2007 Report Share Posted October 1, 2007 Ok if I'm totally honest I'm not really sure what it is I'm trying to say! hehe, good start!Basically I want to start a blog, primarily to document my upcoming trip around australia so my friends and family can keep up to date with me. But when that's all over I hop to go on lots of little adventures around the world and keep writing and updating again for friends and family. And if i'm not travellig and just back at home I want to be able to write about things that matter to me.Really, this all sounds very egotistical.. it's not. Really it's just an excuse to exercise mind and try to be a little more creative.SO, you have the background.As I'm a tart and I dont like things that look free and cheapy I dont want an URL such as sam1569.blogger.com or whatever.So, I'm going to have 'proper' URL.. www.something.co.ukI can't seem to find out how much space [mb/gb] of webspace/bandwidth you get.. And really I want to be able to upload videos/images and text.sooo, would I be better off to just get myself a domain and some hosting and do it all myself? This might not be the best option because I have very limited html coding experience.Am I able to simply sign up for blogger and then host my blog on my own domain?I really dont understand any of it!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomturd Posted October 1, 2007 Report Share Posted October 1, 2007 Ok if I'm totally honest I'm not really sure what it is I'm trying to say! hehe, good start!Basically I want to start a blog, primarily to document my upcoming trip around australia so my friends and family can keep up to date with me. But when that's all over I hop to go on lots of little adventures around the world and keep writing and updating again for friends and family. And if i'm not travellig and just back at home I want to be able to write about things that matter to me.Really, this all sounds very egotistical.. it's not. Really it's just an excuse to exercise mind and try to be a little more creative.SO, you have the background.As I'm a tart and I dont like things that look free and cheapy I dont want an URL such as sam1569.blogger.com or whatever.So, I'm going to have 'proper' URL.. www.something.co.ukI can't seem to find out how much space [mb/gb] of webspace/bandwidth you get.. And really I want to be able to upload videos/images and text.sooo, would I be better off to just get myself a domain and some hosting and do it all myself? This might not be the best option because I have very limited html coding experience.Am I able to simply sign up for blogger and then host my blog on my own domain?I really dont understand any of it!!!!Not sure if you can use your own domain with blogger, but I doubt it. You can however use your domain to redirect to your blogger url.. but its not the 'proper' way to do it.I'd recommend finding a host with cPanel which lets you install wordpress/some other blog script in one click (sets it all up for you basically). You'd need to find a host with cpanel, and specifically 'fantastico' - google will bring up some results. When you've found one, before you click 'buy' let me know how much you'd be paying and we may be able to beat the price (and i'll install wordpress for you). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Nichols Posted October 1, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2007 Thanks for the advice Tom.. I'm not sure you needed to quote my post though I've had a look around and I've found what seems like some decent/cheap hosting options BUT I have absolutely no idea what type of bandwidth I should be looking at..?I've found one that is £45 per annum incl. 2GB disk space, 20gb transfer, cPanel, Fantastico, shared SSL, PHP4 + PHP5 Here's a link to the comapny.. Click.I'm thinking along the lines of hosting my images on photobucket, using youtube for videos and the just hosting the text myself? So I'm not likely to exceed the 20gb a month on text alone. I mean I don't have that many friends/family!Does this seem a good option to you? Or any other people that may be able to offer advice? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Posted October 1, 2007 Report Share Posted October 1, 2007 If your hosting else where i doubt you'll go over the 1gb/10gb one. Wordpress is piss easy to install without any control panel so i wouldn't worry about that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Nichols Posted October 1, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2007 Yeah I thought as much, It would be nice to host my own videos though, small ones mind you!Am I right in assuming if it's, for example, a 10mb video; everytime somebody downloads it that's 10mb of bandwidth used up? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Posted October 1, 2007 Report Share Posted October 1, 2007 Correct.Can go for 2gb/20gb for peace of mind but my cudgel.co.uk is 10gb bandwidth i think, never even come close, although i've not hosted videos, i've got a lot of images on there.I lie, i've got 30gb but i've never touched 10 yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Nichols Posted October 1, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2007 Cheers, I thought as much.It's gonna take me months to think of a decent url too all the good oens are taken!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomturd Posted October 1, 2007 Report Share Posted October 1, 2007 I guess you'll be unlikely to use over 1gb, let alone 20! TF uses about 80gb a month ish.Sure we could sort something out for less than £45 a year, with 'unlimited' (within reason... 20gb a month is fine, very much doubt you'll ever hit that though) bandwidth if you're interested If for some reason you think you're likely to go over 20gb a month then just drop us an email and we could up it a bit.20gb would be enough to host everything - videos, pictures, text on the same server, no need to mess about with youtube and imageshack. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Nichols Posted October 1, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2007 Well if you'd be willing to sort me out with some hosting that'd be ideal, if you wouldn't mind dropping me an email or a pm we can sort something out i'm sure samlikesbikes(at)gmail(dot)comthanks for the help you two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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