Website Hosting Discussion

[lynca]

Originally Posted by CJmango

That aside, I think we can do a lot to help the rookies out there actually get into low-cost web development to build their team image and spread the word of FIRST. Maybe some of you even have web development tutorials or references to good websites that discuss web development and personal hosting? There's a lot you can do to build a website before you spend any money on a domain name or hosting.

The DiscoBots as a rookie team got started using DynDNS with an old computer using a standard internet connection. Check out the tutorial.

http://2009.discobots.org/node/7 "Host Server Setup"

This is a great way to get started and learn about all the details without spending money.

To make our system more robust we switched over to Hostgator in our second year.