okay, I gotta make sure my firewall will work with this.

http://danerd.home.dyndns.org:4001

Let me know if u got in.

I got in, it loaded REALLY slow.

Okay thanks, that's all I needed.

I was able to get in and checked the various links. I signed up for the forum, but when I try to validate my subscrtiption. I get a network timeout error.

Okay, I will look into itGot it, I deleted your account, try again, you will get a new e-mail

got in, did a few refreshes. seemed speedy enough

Yeah, I was just doing high traffic testing on it. That's why it was slow before

got in fine, and all the links look like they work fine......speed was good

loaded fast... and was snappy

Yep good here in the UK.

Okay, thanks alot you guys. Also, I really do not want to host the server from my home network. Does anyone know of any good ad-free hosting sites?

Zymic They are Who hosts My site

I was able to validate my subscription, also your web server seems much faster today.

On your question of hosted servers, what ever you do, stay away ixwebhosting.com, they are super cheap and you get what you paid for (not much) slow as {censored} and server down all the time. I made the mistake a couple of years ago, and from what I hear they are even worse now.

Okay, I just don't make money off this, so I don't want to pay. I know it will be hard, but I will try to find a free one with at least 2GB of hosting.

Andre, I just tried that one, but I get an error when I try to setup a web host account.

I get this error:

loads fine as any other site

Any ideas on how to get past this?

Funny, I signed up for the same site, and it went off flawlessly. Not a bad hosting site from the little I've played around with it, ftp is pretty fast.

Pages load OK but images load extremely slowly. Anyway, there are several good free hosts. One I recommend is X10Hosting. They have 2 plans, which you can see on the plans page. Both plans have cPanel, Apache, FTP, PHP5, MySQL 4, GD Library, CGI, PHP Mail, POP, IMAP, Sendmail, Fantastico, Cron, and a few others. That is an excellent feature list, some features even paid hosting doesn't have. The difference between the two plans is that one puts ads on your site and one doesn't. The no ads one has 300MB space and 10GB bandwith, the one with ads gives 2.5GB space and 45GB bandwith. Your choice. I've tested it out a bit and it seems to be very good.

However, there are probably better free hosts and I advise you to check this page for the best free hosting services on the net. Test a few, pick out one that you like. Now on to actual site stuff. The slow loading image problem will likely be fixed once you switch to a host. The other thing is frames. Your site uses frames and this is not a good thing to do at all, people can't link to specific pages and its an overall mess. Next is the "minimalist" design. Its too minimalist and its not too attractive, you could code one yourself or choose one of the thousands of free templates available.

But I recommend using the Joomla CMS for your site. This CMS has everything you need to make a professional site with no coding required. There is a built in user login and account system, and there are tons of beautiful premade templates available for it. Also available are a huge variety of extensions that will allow your site to do just about anything a site can do. Your E-Blah forum should be replaced with a FireBoard forum if you are using Joomla, and all registered users will be reset but since there are only a couple users its easy to do.

Hope this helps

I am gonna even follow your statements ~pcwiz!

I went with a different one. It is called freehostia.com It has 500MB of storage, and 5 GB bandwidth. It has no ads, it has perl scripting, and it is free

Are you gonna go with Joomla or static HTML? Also, Joomla has a web interface for adding content so you can add content with no code editing and you can add content from anywhere with Internet access.

Right now, I just use kompozer. That might change in the future.

Kompozer is a easy to use web page designer made by mozilla.

So is Joomla sort of like IWeb?

No, Joomla is a content management WEB SYSTEM. It runs from within your web browser, you upload the files and you add and edit content through a WEB INTERFACE, no editor or additional software required.

Don't use Joomla, you'll be guaranteed to be hacked within a month. There are tons and tons and tons of vulnerabilities in Joomla.

Not true, I've been using the latest 1.0 build of Joomla (1.0.15) with PHP5 with register_globals off and I have have also implemented CAPTCHA spam prevention for creating new accounts and for typing comments, haven't been hacked once. Its just a matter of setting up security right using .htaccess and php.ini. It is true that a default install with no security prevention measures will be prone to hacking though. Also, always change the default admin username to something more unique, and use a strong password. And also update immediately when a new build of Joomla comes out

Then nothing can happen. And if your site does get hacked after taking all those measures (highly unlikely) if you were using a backup bot like Jombackup for daily MySQL backups, just restore the backup and all is fine