Hi all,
Over the past few months I have been looking into hosting a basic website at home. I have a simple, isolated webserver running XAMPP, port 80 forwarding on my router and the dynamic IP service from dyndns.com to keep my webserver communicating with one of dyndns.com's free sub/domains (say http://myname.is-a-chef.net).
I am now trying to make things a bit more professional and have registered a personal domain name.
I understand that now I need to use DNS to link my new domain name to my home hosted site.
As far as I can see dyndns.com charges to use its DNS services in this way. However, after a bit of searching around I have found other free services for this, of which I think http://freedns.afraid.org has got the best reviews.
Before I go ahead with this part of the process I want to ask for general advice...as well as some clarity on these issues:
Is the reason services such as http://freedns.afraid.org are free because other uses get to make subdomains of my domain name, and is this a problem?
Will I need to get new dynamic dns software to keep freedns updated with my home dynamic IP changes?
On top of this, does anyone have any good web resources for learning some of these more technical elements...I've used www.boutell.com resources up to this point and have drawn a blank on getting clear DNS info in this area.
Thanks alot! Please bear in mind that 3 months ago I was a total newbie to all of this, so I've probably already done something silly....


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