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Never ask a web page who owns name X. Lots of unscrupulous guys will put a 90 day registration on a domain when it's asked about.

Instead do one of the following:

from a command line type

whois domian.you.want.com

On a mac this is a built-in command. On windows you may have to download a version of it first.

Key thing here is to find out if it's registered.

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Now you need to find an honest registrar.

type whois domain.you.dont.want.com

here you want to find a domain that truely isn't currently in the system.

Once you find one, use this to test whether the desired registrar is playing tricks. If they do, then find find another not registered domain and try with a different registrar.

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FWIW I have both my domain hosting and my domain registry with Dreamhost.com.

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If you *must* have *that* domain...

Here's another strategy inspired by patent guy;

You will need a bunch of throwaway email accounts.

Make an offer for 10% of the $$$$ asking price. They will turn you down.

From another account a week later make another offer for about 6% of the price of a different domain. Turn down again.

Wait a week. Make an offer this time for about 5%.

Wait a week.

Now offer about 15%. of your desired domain.

This continues intermittently -- try to avoid a pattern. Key here is give them feedback that the domain market isn't what it used to be.

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Dreamhost ($120/year + $10 or so for domain reg), Wordpress, and a theme from Themeforest ($40 one time). It isn't difficult to set it up, and once you do updates like posting a new CV are extremely easy. Using a full hosting service also allows you to do other tasks that may come up, like setup cron jobs to regularly scrape data or databases that can be accessed remotely.

If you don't knows what you're doing, get a managed WordPress VPS and delegate all the hard work to someone else.

Check DreamHost for example at https://DreamHost.com/wordpress but there are other options including WordPress.com itself

Full disclosure: I happen to work at DreamHost

mysql is a pretty standard pick, you can install it on your own laptop, or if you want to buy server space online you can get some pretty cheap - i use dreamhost.com - a few dollars a month and i get as many mysql databases as i like, and ssh access to a system that i can do whatever i want with.

the stack you want will depend on how much detail you want to go into as to how things work.

you can pretty easily set up a wordpress site with underlying mysql and then just play around with the php/html/css for a taste of what is going on.

you can use fancy api layers like java spring or python django

or you can do things the really from scratch way, where you write a program in python/java/perl/php/whatever that connects to a database, reads some rows, and literally does a "for each row from the database, print it with tags around it", and then make that program web-available by putting it into a cgi-script accessible directory somewhere, on your own pc or otherwise

educationally, i'd recommend the latter. just for playing around, i'd recommend the former. ymmv

the setup is going to depend on where you're doing this. if a laptop, it matters if it's pc or mac. if it's on a server you're renting for cheap, then a lot of it will be set up already because making a LAMP stack is 99% of why people do that

i'd start with looking up some tutorials online. google "LAMP stack on XXX" where XXX is the kind of computer you have. pc, mac, linux

if you do get space on a server, whatever company you purchase it thru will have a wiki for how to use their services, and i can guarantee they'll have a series of tutorials for how to set up a basic cgi script that reads from a database

Adding in dreamhost.com as a potential hosting option for wordpress. I previously helped a company move away from Bluehost to BigCommerce and had a terrible experience with the platform, not sure why so many blogs recommend Bluehost : \

I haven't used dreamhost but looked pretty decent from past research :)

Another alternative to a gofundme - start a fundraising kit for how to fund these hosting costs. You can make it easy for people to access and add to, to get as many people adding to it as possible. The goal would be to make it as easy as possible for individual organizations to cover these needs without running ads. You could even have some sort of forum on what worked for people and what didn't, maybe a subreddit or something.

Also, I know some web hosts offer free hosting for 501(c)(3) organizations - dreamhost.com is one of them, they have amazing customer service and I couldn't recommend them more. It's not that bad to get the free hosting, you just have to send them proof of 501(c)(3) status. I found a blog post on this, but the other ones don't offer nearly as good of deals - here it is if you want to look at it: https://www.websitebuilderexpert.com/web-hosting-services/best/nonprofit/

there is that but in the off chance that its a game or something there would have to be some place to start, that would seem like a good place, other than that there doesnt appear to be much to go on.

it seems to have been up in its current incarnation since sometime around november 2001 so even if it is a game or something chances are good that its not gonna be active.

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i did a very quick look about, and it has a couple of files you would expect on an apache server such as a .htaccess file and a .htpasswd for the member area but i didnt find anything else looking for common files.

i tried opening the title image in a hex editor just cos it was the only other file i found and i dont see anything that jumps out, there is a bunch of padding in it but i know nothing about the gif format and that might be totally normal.

its hosted by dreamhost.com and is using their mail service.

I'll agree with what a couple people said with EIG companies, I have had a pretty bad experience running my sites with them, to include bluehost.

Im not sure if you need a CA based server or if maybe these companies can offer you, but some companies that I have had good experience with are

dreamhost.com - site builder is nice, support is alright, prices are fair, friendly service and very helpful

unidenhosting.com - great support, nice prices and pretty decent website builder, friendly service and generally adds any feature you need

a2hosting.com - sitebuilder is nice, plan has a lot of features and the support is good

Either way, I would just look around, you could even try joining a web hosting forum and maybe you will find some offers there. the web hosts i provided you with are hosts that i am with or used in the past and have experience with them. so maybe for you, they will work or maybe they offer ca servers but i would reach out to each of them and just see how they respond. goo dluck on your server

For managed wordpress hosting, why don't you go with https://dreamhost.com. They are $16.95/mo (~$200/yr), blazing fast, and good customer service. We use them for our wordpress sites and we are happy.

Avoid Godaddy and Bluehost at all costs. Our agency uses https://dreamhost.com and we are quite happy with them. Blazing fast, good customer service, and fair pricing. They are great with wordpress.

Bluehost is probably worse to be honest. I use https://dreamhost.com for my wordpress hosting (9 sites) and they are cheap, super fast, and good customer service - can't go wrong.

I am a fan of https://dreamhost.com shared hosting plans, that are as low as $2.50/mo. They also have VPS and dedicated or wordpress if you need something beefier. Good customer service too.

Im saying wordpress.com will never allow you access to the .htaccess file. For their file hosting, it sits outside of your wordpress install and is restricted from direct access.

If you need a custom solution. Install WordPress from wordpress.org on a host like dreamhost.com

You have a very 'unique' manner of speech, a bit too unique in that I often can't make sense of it; just what in the world you mean by "create people"? Interpreted literally, this, if anything, is the best example of "impractical" (for a single person). If instead you meant "find people", why not say such? I'd even ask "is your English not fluent", but many of your clauses are too advanced for someone without even an intermediate mastery. Then there's "parse a sentence" - what are we, Visual Studio? What motivates these lines?

As to your links, I intentionally avoid them - they lack https, and you're free to look up why that's problematic. I can recommend https://dreamhost.com/ - free, and w/ https, but appends .dreamhost to your domain. Alternatively, you can share stuff via Dropbox.

@ "plenty willing" - if you wish anyone competent enough for such ambitious goals, you could use some serious rephrasing on all of them, unless by 'luck' you grab Dr. Frankenstein for "creating people"

Try Dreamhost.com. I have their lowest tier shared server for $10/year and it handles my 8k visitors a month (Average session 8-10 minutes, 10 pages or so per session) You can buy fractional servers -- essentially your own virtual machine, and dedicated servers of various configs. Support requests are handled usually within 4 hours.

As someone who has been with WebFaction since the python-hosting.com days, I posted my full suggestions above. Dreamhost.com is a great choice for WordPress and I think you'd be happy with them.

WebFaction refugee here. Here's my research and where I moved my websites:

• NearlyFreeSpeech.NET I moved my python apps and some static sites to this pay-as-you-go webhost. Their OS/software layer is fully managed, but they provide NO support unless you pay extra for it. I really like the quirky configuration and developer-friendly software. WordPress apps are supported, but installing them is tricky and by no means a 1-step process. For the 8 webapps I moved here, I'm paying about $4/month total.
• Gandi.net This host has been around for decades and has some corporate guiding principles I agree with (read their "no bullshit" page for details). Their servers are based in France so this is also a good choice for customers wishing to keep EU-central servers. Although the plans show a domain-limit, this is just a suggestion and you can host unlimited domains on their packages. I'm very happy with the speed and support.
• Dreamhost.com This is probably the best choice for US customers who want a traditional host that isn't going to get gobbled up by the big conglomerates (they have refused to sell to EIG multiple times). They have their own control panel which is easy to use and has very simple WordPress site setup. Highly recommended and also supports multiple domains on a single account.

Limited possibilities here

• Computer can't find the site by URL
• Computer can find the site, but can't reach the site

Open a command line window and run

nslookup <code>dreamhost.com</code>

If you don't get an address back for dreamhost.com then it's a DNS problem. Check out u/DrazeSwift advice.

If you do get an address back, then ping it to see if you have physical connectivity

ping <code>192.237.181.248</code>

If your ping gets a reply (ICMP protocol) then you know you have physical connectivity and it may be that you're being blocked/black-holed by dreamhost when you try to connect using the TCP:HTTP protocol.

Any more troubleshooting than this is probably too complex for this forum. If it's Windows, have you rebooted since the problem started?

Not sure where you got the prices for dreamhost cloud: there are more options than the two you mentioned. Check https://dreamhost.com/cloud

DreamHost VPS product is a managed machine, meaning that the OS and Apache/nginx are managed for you. DreamHost cloud machines are unmanaged, meaning that you take care of upgrades and configuration