How to get a free web domain and a free place in a webhotel

How to get a free web domain and a free place in a webhotel L3010 • Mar 2, 2023 18:56:43 GMT

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Post by L3010 on Mar 2, 2023 18:56:43 GMT

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- How to get a free web domain

- How to get a free place in a webhotel

The image you're currently looking at is a screenshot from InfinityFree's homepage. InfinityFree is a web-hosting service; a service you can use to host your own websites on their servers. When signing up on InfinityFree's website, you can get acess to your own place in their web-hotel. As the name entails, the place can be as big as you want it to be, and it's completely free. There are some rules though, that you need to follow in order to be allowed to use the service:

- You are not allowed to use the server volume to store personal files, such as backups or photos - the volume must only be used to store the contents of a website.

(there are more rules!)

And some limitations:

- You can not store movie-files.

How to get a free web domain and a free place in the webhotel:

1. Sign up

2. Create a domain with the service

3. Access your files

• Sign up

The first step is to click the "Sign Up"-button on InfinityFree's homepage, infinityfree.net. Fill in your e-mail address, choose a password and confirm the password. Read the terms & conditions, check the mark. Now click "Create New Profile".

Pass the prove-you're-not-an-AI-test. An email will be sent to your address, open the mail and click the button in the mail to verify your e-mail address.

• Create a domain with the service

Once you've clicked the button in the email you will be brought to this page. This is the list of hosting accounts for your InfinityFree account. Each IF account can have three Hosting Accounts. A hosting account is the administrator account of a website. Each hosting account has it's own Admin panel and files that are loaded when the website is accessed.

To create the first Hosting Account (and your first website), click the "Create Account"-button.

The first step is to choose a name for your new website. I will choose the name "amethystspinage.rf.gd". If you want a domain-name that ends with ".com" or ".net" you have to buy the domain name from a domain-name provider (a link to how to do this at the bottom of the page).

Choose a password for your first Hosting Account. As you can reed on the second image above, it can take up to 72 hours before your website is online, but you can access the files as soon as you click "Open Control Panel".

• Access your files

This is the Admin Panel of my first IF Hosting Account! The Hosting Account for the website amethystspinage.rf.gd. From here you can access the files for the website, do stuff such as create a MySQL-database that is associated to the website (a link to a guide about MySQL-databases at the bottom of this page!), and change various settings of the website such as the domain-name.

To access your files, click "Online File Manager" (visible in image above).

This is the Monsta file-manager that IF uses. This file-manager allows for file upload, download and has a built in online code editor! As you can read by the title of the bottom file, this is not the place to upload your website's files. All of your website's files are stored in the "htdocs" directory. To access it, click the folder.

This is the htdocs directory. As you can read by the title of the first file, this is the place to upload files that will load when you access the website. There is already a file in the directory that would load if you where to open the URL in a browser.

This is the file "index2.html" opened in Monsta's code editor. Here you can change whatever you want, the website is yours!

amethystspinage.rf.gd

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