Sup guys. Forgot we moved from the old site. Shows how long i have been away. I have been considering getting involved in Affiliate programs to make some extra money.
I want to get some input from you all. I have my own ideas of what I want to do as far as what companies, etc. I want to affiliate with. What I need is some technical assistance.
First priority is to setup a website for myself. What website building software do you guys recommend? Something that is good but user friendly.
I want to setup a new computer. I am anticipating medium traffic. Do I need to build a 'super computer' with drives at 10k + rpms and some kind of raid? Cost is a factor, I really dont want to invest thousands in this computer. What hardware do you recommend for the new comp?
If I use 1 large drive, would setting up partition(s) on the drive be a value add to performance, security, safety, etc?
Any input is appreciated. Just need to get my ideas in order and work on a business plan.
Thanks.
Z
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Ryan from Ohio
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To do what? Sell stuff?
We use vizaweb.com for this site.
No complaints here!
We use vizaweb.com for this site.
No complaints here!
-Ryan
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I wont be selling anything.
Is building my own computer for this project and having my website and all content, ect. stored on my computer a good alternative to webhosting? Not sure if I need to pay for webhosting.
Ive never had a website or needed a website before. For those who have a website do you have everything stored on a main computer or have something like vizaweb?
Any input on the computer hardware ryan?
Thanks,
Z
Is building my own computer for this project and having my website and all content, ect. stored on my computer a good alternative to webhosting? Not sure if I need to pay for webhosting.
Ive never had a website or needed a website before. For those who have a website do you have everything stored on a main computer or have something like vizaweb?
Any input on the computer hardware ryan?
Thanks,
Z
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Ryan from Ohio
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The webhosting is $72 per year thru vizaweb.
As for being your own server you will need an always on connection. Best bet is if you have a dedicated computer to act as your server.
Bill can probably give ya better answers as he already does this!
As for being your own server you will need an always on connection. Best bet is if you have a dedicated computer to act as your server.
Bill can probably give ya better answers as he already does this!
-Ryan
www.caraudiocentral.net - Your #1 Car Audio Resource on the Net!
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for software, Macromedia Dreamweaver is pretty nice. unless you've done this sort of thing before, it takes a while to pick up. you don't sound very up to date on computer/web stuff, not to sound rude, so i think designing with a large software program like dreamweaver is probably not efficient.
its cheaper to just buy web hosting. most provide a site builder, but its very limited in its creativity.
what are you planning on doing?
its cheaper to just buy web hosting. most provide a site builder, but its very limited in its creativity.
what are you planning on doing?
No offense taken Jszar. Im actually am very up to date with the computer hardware stuff. I just pieced together a pretty sweet tower for my little brother with stuff from newegg. Its great considering he had $300 to spend. A friend of mine is a programmer and gave me XP Pro and Office Pro 2003 with corporate keys for free.
Its website builder software is what I have no experience with or building a website. I would like to design a webisite myself and build a new tower dedicated for that specific webiste. Any suggestions on hardware?
I saw that Dreamwaver software. Looks pretty sweet, but could be complicated. Im just looking for some basic user-friendly software that some of you computer guys have used and liked.
I found some great tutorials on website building for beginners. Im confident that I can do it. Just gathering some info thats all.
As far as the plan. Basically, money is my motivator. I have been doing some research on home-based businesses for sometime now. Read a few books and some other online reading. There is alot of money to be made. Its just a hard market to break into and be successful. I see all those BS sites where you can make "$58,000 your first month!" I avoid those.
I started to look into Affiliate programs that the large companies offer where my website would act as a portal to products and services offered by those larger companies. Some I have found seem pretty good. Offering a large percentage commision. Im just taking my time with the research as far as what the business is and what I will offer. There is so much out there it would be hard to distinguish what I would offer compared to what is already being offered. Just need to find some original ideas. The computer aspect of it is why I started this post. Just understanding what kind of hardware I need or if I want to use a webhosting service.
2 friends and myself just opened Property Solutionz (the Z is for me). We invest in 'problem houses'. Buy them cheap, we all can do most of the work, and sell them for a profit. I work full-time as a bankruptcy paralegal. So i have access to foreclosures, trustee sales, and sheriff sales. I can get notices right away for houses and bid on them cheap. Its a great money maker.
Building my website is for advertising in my city for the property business as well as the affiliate thing. I got some good ideas so far.
Z
Its website builder software is what I have no experience with or building a website. I would like to design a webisite myself and build a new tower dedicated for that specific webiste. Any suggestions on hardware?
I saw that Dreamwaver software. Looks pretty sweet, but could be complicated. Im just looking for some basic user-friendly software that some of you computer guys have used and liked.
I found some great tutorials on website building for beginners. Im confident that I can do it. Just gathering some info thats all.
As far as the plan. Basically, money is my motivator. I have been doing some research on home-based businesses for sometime now. Read a few books and some other online reading. There is alot of money to be made. Its just a hard market to break into and be successful. I see all those BS sites where you can make "$58,000 your first month!" I avoid those.
I started to look into Affiliate programs that the large companies offer where my website would act as a portal to products and services offered by those larger companies. Some I have found seem pretty good. Offering a large percentage commision. Im just taking my time with the research as far as what the business is and what I will offer. There is so much out there it would be hard to distinguish what I would offer compared to what is already being offered. Just need to find some original ideas. The computer aspect of it is why I started this post. Just understanding what kind of hardware I need or if I want to use a webhosting service.
2 friends and myself just opened Property Solutionz (the Z is for me). We invest in 'problem houses'. Buy them cheap, we all can do most of the work, and sell them for a profit. I work full-time as a bankruptcy paralegal. So i have access to foreclosures, trustee sales, and sheriff sales. I can get notices right away for houses and bid on them cheap. Its a great money maker.
Building my website is for advertising in my city for the property business as well as the affiliate thing. I got some good ideas so far.
Z
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William from NOLA
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You don't need a speedy computer to serve fast. The only thing that matters most is the connection; this is something that you want a syncronous upload/download (same speed) of the fastest you can afford.
As for server software, there are a few programs out there that are completely free. You can even use a free operating system! (Linux) The server software I use is Sambar v6.0 it's completely free and works flawlessly. For my pages, I don't even use Frontpage or Dreamweaver, I am slightly lazy and use MS Word 2000; the only thing I do is go back over the pages I create in it and remove all of the crap word puts in (done in a text editor).
You can visit my site and test out the speed which is really only limited by my connection which is 48/380 KB/s upload/download. This is really what most people wouldn't use for a server, but I don't expect a lot of visitors. If you have a dynamic Ip address, then use this free service to redirect people: http://www.no-ip.com
For anybody who browsed my site longer than 6 months ago, you would have been served from an Intel Celeron 550 MHz with 128 mb of ram.
You can see my current specs at: http://megahurts4.servebeer.com/recordinggear.htm
For the hard drive partitioning, you should definately do that. That is much more secure for your running computer. And ALWAYS!!! backup your website. I find it very easy to move it to another network computer (all the files and folders), but always keep everything on cd/dvd externally.
For a good server that will do just about anything:
2 Ghz processor
1 gig of ram
fast hard drive (low seek time and good transfer rate- 100 mb/s and up)
Case cooling (fans)
Decent power supply (don't cheap out, this thing runs 24/7, no need to spend more than $80)
Don't get good video or sound cards if you don't plan to use them
As for server software, there are a few programs out there that are completely free. You can even use a free operating system! (Linux) The server software I use is Sambar v6.0 it's completely free and works flawlessly. For my pages, I don't even use Frontpage or Dreamweaver, I am slightly lazy and use MS Word 2000; the only thing I do is go back over the pages I create in it and remove all of the crap word puts in (done in a text editor).
You can visit my site and test out the speed which is really only limited by my connection which is 48/380 KB/s upload/download. This is really what most people wouldn't use for a server, but I don't expect a lot of visitors. If you have a dynamic Ip address, then use this free service to redirect people: http://www.no-ip.com
For anybody who browsed my site longer than 6 months ago, you would have been served from an Intel Celeron 550 MHz with 128 mb of ram.
You can see my current specs at: http://megahurts4.servebeer.com/recordinggear.htm
For the hard drive partitioning, you should definately do that. That is much more secure for your running computer. And ALWAYS!!! backup your website. I find it very easy to move it to another network computer (all the files and folders), but always keep everything on cd/dvd externally.
For a good server that will do just about anything:
2 Ghz processor
1 gig of ram
fast hard drive (low seek time and good transfer rate- 100 mb/s and up)
Case cooling (fans)
Decent power supply (don't cheap out, this thing runs 24/7, no need to spend more than $80)
Don't get good video or sound cards if you don't plan to use them
A.K.A. megahurts4 :: Member since: July 19, 2002 
EPZ great ideas you have. I actually want to get into the foreclosure buying and selling. I don't want to steal your thread but let me know how its going. Also what state are you doing this in?
As far as the server and things. William said it best. You need good processor, hard drive and ram. Sound and video forget about. Get the most basic as you really want to dedicate a separate computer as your server. For you website definitely use Frontpage. It is the easiest to use and can do more than you think. I have built pages in it and they come out good. The connection speed for the server is important too. I actually work at a computer place, we offer web hosting, web design etc etc., and my boss has 2 dedicated T1 lines for the service. 1 to run and 1 as back up. The costs of that can get hefty and it really depends on your traffic and your ideas.
Anyway, good luck and let us know how it goes.
As far as the server and things. William said it best. You need good processor, hard drive and ram. Sound and video forget about. Get the most basic as you really want to dedicate a separate computer as your server. For you website definitely use Frontpage. It is the easiest to use and can do more than you think. I have built pages in it and they come out good. The connection speed for the server is important too. I actually work at a computer place, we offer web hosting, web design etc etc., and my boss has 2 dedicated T1 lines for the service. 1 to run and 1 as back up. The costs of that can get hefty and it really depends on your traffic and your ideas.
Anyway, good luck and let us know how it goes.
I am doing this is Nebraska, Iowa, and South Dakota. I live in NE and those other states are 2 out of 16 that I work on bankruptcy cases in. I live in NE so its not to bad. Was looking at a property in Chamberlin, SD last fall. Could of gotten a house cheap in a great location but couldnt setup the over-the-phone bidding in time. The IRS foreclosed and just wanted there $2000 in back taxes. I would of paid them, paid the attorney fees and would of had the house on 1 acre for $5500. It needed some work though. Maybe $10,000. But I can do most the work myself so I can save on remodeling costs.
Yea I am pretty much set on my idea for the computer, 2 ghz CPU, 1 gig ram, and might jump up to a bigger hd b/c they are so cheap. I can overclock the CPU im gonna get up to 2.6 Ghz. Not to bad.
I have cox cable internet. the commercial i saw said up to 5 megs/sec. not sure about that. I think that my cable connection would work. I will take a look at Frontpage.
Any ideas on the OS? I have been looking at linux for the past few days. Seems alittle complicated. I have been going through their website reading everything. Just not sure what version of linux I would need. Can XP Pro do the job?
thanks,
Z
Yea I am pretty much set on my idea for the computer, 2 ghz CPU, 1 gig ram, and might jump up to a bigger hd b/c they are so cheap. I can overclock the CPU im gonna get up to 2.6 Ghz. Not to bad.
I have cox cable internet. the commercial i saw said up to 5 megs/sec. not sure about that. I think that my cable connection would work. I will take a look at Frontpage.
Any ideas on the OS? I have been looking at linux for the past few days. Seems alittle complicated. I have been going through their website reading everything. Just not sure what version of linux I would need. Can XP Pro do the job?
thanks,
Z