Comments on: I decided to go with Linux hosting. What now?

By: Rina S

Rina S — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:45:59 +0000

Login to your web hosting account and upload few files using file manager or else you may contact a web designer at website like http://oktutorial.com/ to set it up for you.
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By: Dave G

Dave G — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:11:59 +0000

The best Linux web hosting service is found at:

http://bluehost-plan.atspace.com

Good Luck!
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By: DaveE

DaveE — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 14:51:59 +0000

Well, your service provider should probably have given you some tools for general usage, but it’s possible they don’t, depending on who you go with. The nitty-gritty way of getting in is using an SSH client (or a telnet client, but don’t do that, it’s not secure). The one that many people seem to prefer is PuTTY:

http://www.putty.org/

You’ll want to start an SSH session to your domain name (or direct to the IP address), and use the username/password that your service provider gave you.

That’ll get you to the command line for your account on the Linux machine that you’re hosted on.

The next step is familiarizing yourself with UNIX/Linux commands. The learning curve is kind of steep for a lot of things, but it’s as powerful or more so than any GUI interface that your ISP will give you.

If you need to FTP files over there (if they haven’t given you a GUI to do so), you can use Windows’ built in FTP client. Start->Run…->"ftp http://www.mydomain.com". Again, very low-level, and steep learning, but it’ll do what you want. Or you can download one of a zillion GUI FTP clients that will handle it for you as well.

DaveE
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By: Nighthawk

Nighthawk — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 14:36:59 +0000

You don’t need Linux yourself in order to host your website on a Linux hosting. It just means that should your website be dynamic (opposed to static HTML site), your webpages should be developed in php. You could do that on your existing Windows computer by getting XAMPP which is a free webserver based on Apache with MySQL and PHP interpreter for Windows.

Find out more at:
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html
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