How to make a free website that doesn't have a crappy domain.

[Fullsteel]

Alright, you want to make a website that doesn't have yourgamesitename.asdbalsd.com.
And co.cc domains only last a year. But there's a better way to get a domain, and a good **free** host I like to use.
And 000webhost is **GREAT** for beginners, and offers php, mysql, and other things! And includes more storage and bandwidth than x10hosting. So that's why I'm using 000webhost.
I have a site, it's called www.energyevo.xp.cx and it works really great!
All will be explained right now.
So lets get started.
1\. Go to http://www.000webhost.com/order.php
2\. Follow this:
3\. Now, you'll just have to wait for it to build.
Alright, you're finished with that.
1\. Alright, now you should go to http://freedns.afraid.org/signup/
Hopefully, it should lead you here.
2\. Sign up (duh)
3\. Activate your account.
4\. Click on subdomains.
Located here
5\. Click add subdomain.
6\. Click domain, and click on Many many more available…
7\. It should say error, if so, good. Now you should click Shared Domain Registry.
8\. Now, push ctrl+f, and search for "xp.cx" without the quotes. That will be the .com. Except, instead of .com, it'll be xp.cx
9\. If you found it, good, now click it.
After you clicked it, it should lead you back to the "Adding a Subdomain" page.
10\. On Subdomain, type what put in the domain for 000webhost. Without the xp.cx
11\. On Domain, click xp.cx.
12\. On Destination, put in ns01.000webhost.com
13\. On Type, click NS.
14\. Click Save!
15\. Alright, now add another domain.
16\. Repeat steps 10 through 14.
17\. On this one though, you need to change Destination to ns02.000webhost.com
18\. Alright, it should look like this now.
19\. Wait for 000webhost to connect with the nameservers and blah blah blah.
20\. And you should be finished with having a complete domain and host now! Congratulations!
21\. Now all you have to do is learn how to use ftp and have some knowledge of html, css, javascript, good luck!
_Edit: I resized some of the images, if they're too hard to read, let me know so I can put them back to original size._

[Guest]

Why not just use co.cc and set up DNS like above>

[Fullsteel]

@Commander:

> link=topic=52927.msg560041#msg560041 date=1255598892]
> Why not just use co.cc and set up DNS like above>

You could use co.cc, but as said in my post, co.cc only lasts 1 year. Well, last time I used it anyways.

[Patrick]

It's a very detailed tutorial. Great work!

Except .xp.something or whatever might be hard to remember if you get my gist. It still hasn't got the shininess of a .com domain. But for free, hey, it'll work for now!

[Fullsteel]

@мсичġġєт:

> It's a very detailed tutorial. Great work!
>
> Except .xp.something or whatever might be hard to remember if you get my gist. It still hasn't got the shininess of a .com domain. But for free, hey, it'll work for now!

Thanks for the compliment.
As for the xp.cx, I think it's pretty short.
But if it's hard to remember, meh, as you said, it's free. ;)