Ask MetaFilter questions tagged with webspace

I need my html, and i need it NOW!

saxamo — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:01:46 -0800

Are there any free hosting services that will just host a .html page? I'm looking for imageshack/tinypic but for html pages.

I need to upload an html page and have it be displayed on something like http://saxamosdreamhost.com/abcdefg.html Rapidshare/megupload will not work because they ask you to download the server

This is for a game server MOTD (the screen you see upon logging into a counter strike 1.6 server). It's only one page, one background image externally linked to tinypic. It will get a fair bit of traffic daily but it can not have advertisements. I would also like the option to go back and re-edit the html OR upload a completely new file with my changes.

Bring us (back) onto the web!

Big_B — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:50:41 -0800

I want to share pictures and videos on the web with family. Is a website my best bet? Where do I start? We have a lot of family spread across the country, and a new baby we want to share with them. My web design experience consists of two very simple pages that my wife and I made in college (~10 years ago) using Claris Homepage. We have comcast for internet service, but their hosting seems to suck pretty hard.

I am picturing a blog-esque page/site with picture galleries and embedded video. So I need a domain, a host (dreamhost?), and then something to put together the site with (right?). From searching askme it looks like Wordpress is a promising route. I have very little html knowledge. Can anyone point me in some directions? Tell me things to avoid?

After an hour or so's research I am feeling a little overwhelmed.

New website on old hosting

Rabulah — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:41:03 -0800

I have some hosting. I use oldtld.com currently as a TLD, to point people at it. On oldtld.com, there are several subdirectories, which I'll call /olddir1, /olddir2, etc. What I want is to be able to buy a new TLD - newtld.com - and point it at the same hosting, yet keep the two separate. I want to be able to keep directory structures like oldtld.com/olddir1, AND be able to have a new directory structure, like newtld.com/newdir1. I'd to have the hosting set up so that each TLD has it's own directories, but without someone being able to come along and type in oldtld.com/newdir1 and have the directory appear. I want to keep all the "old" and "new" sections separate, on the same hosting.

Confused yet? :D

Is this possible, and if so, what do I need to do/say to my hosting provider to make it happen?

Free Wordpress hosting

daksya — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 07:30:52 -0800

Looking for customizable & free Wordpress (or other) hosting I've finally decided to restart my blog and have chosen Wordpress, given its pages facility and skinning.

I didn't find most themes at Wordpress.com very inviting and among the ones I did, there was at least some minor quirk. Now, it costs $15 annually to avail of 'Custom CSS' there and I'm just not ready to spend any money yet. So, I'm looking for either

1)free Wordpress hosting with ability to put up own skins and tweak the CSS
or
2)free webspace, where I can install Wordpress

I've searched this past week and can't seem to pin down this information. I don't require much storage (~50M) or much bandwidth, no MU capability. A subdomain would be nice. Lack of ads would be nice, but not required, as long as they don't scream or pop-up.

Also, if there's a free host with another blogging engine spotting similar features to Wordpress, I'd consider it, but no Blogger.

Finally, if there's a credible, updated directory or comparison of bloghosts and/or webspace, that would be helpful too.

Need a beginner's guide to setting up domains and webspace

Hogshead — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 08:10:48 -0800

Where can I find a beginner's guide to setting up domains, webspace, email and all that, with simple, comprehensive instructions, but without chapters of "there's this thing called HTML"? I hate myself for asking this. I'm not a technical idiot -- I've built networks, rebuilt PCs, edited magazines about the web, etc. -- but I simply can't get a handle on all the steps necessary to set up the fairly basic websites I want. I have domain names. I have host space. I have GoLive. I even have a placeholder up on one of the domains. What I don't have, and can't find, is a simple yet comprehensive guide to getting my domains configured and pointing at the right places, arranging things so email from each domain arrives on my home machine, getting one host to hold multiple websites, and so on. And dammit, I can't find one: not on the web, nor in bookshops.

I am aware that the answers are likely to be impossibly simple, but all I can find on Google is either people trying to sell me host-space, or discussion boards that are far too technical for me. I don't need java, javascript, AJAX, DHTML or PHP, not yet anyway, and I do not need a book that talks about them. I don't need anything that tells me how to put the site together in HTML -- too many books devote ten unnecessary chapters to that, and then add a cursory "Oh yeah, you'll need a domain and a host and good luck" section near the end.

I can't find a For Dummies or Idiot's Guide that fits my bill, but there may be one.

Just to stress: I'm not asking you to tell me how to do this; I'm asking for a book or website that'll tell me.