Today I purchased a hosting plan for Windows from Bigrock for Rs 3500 for 1 year. Since I already owned the domain name ‘http://android-diary.net‘, with bigrock, I chose that domain name, while buying the hosting package.
Changing existing name server details
Since I had already created name records as part of my VPS package, which I owned previously, I had to delete them before I could use my current hosting package.
- Open the hosting package and scroll all the the way down to the section ‘DNS Management‘ ( see above )
- Click on ‘Manage DNS‘
- I had the following records in my list.
Now click on each of the records and in the page that opens up, click ‘Delete record‘. This way, I was able to clear all the records in the list
NOTE: 162.251.83.223 was the IP address of my VPS server
First hosted page – hello world page
Big rock supports plesk for hosting package management. So once you create your first index.html file, make sure that the user ‘Plesk IIS Anonymous Account’ is available under the ‘Permissions‘ section of that file. If you do not do this, no one will be able to view your page.
The goal is, at the end of 30 days, I should be having a time tracker and a encrypted chat messenger up and running on my website, which will be connecting to the desktop clients running on my system.
The desktop version of the time tracker is almost ready on my office laptop. I felt so happy coding that project, because from conception till basic features, I was able to complete in less than 1 day, almost reaching the speeds I used to work on, when I was in college. It always good to be back in form 🙂
Why asp.net ?
Since I already owned a linux hosting package, on which this and several other of my blogs run, the usual course of action would be to proceed with php and mysql suite. I setup a new sub domain called php and even proceeded with installing XAMPP on my local system to improve my MySQL and PHP skills. I also tried a couple of basic PHP scripts. But somehow, I was not at home coding in PHP. I know….. that the programming language should not matter, for a programmer ! But although I tried a lot, relearning all the classes/ functions for even something as simple as writing a stopwatch and clock, seemed too cumbersome for me.
Since I felt very comfortable with C#, I decided to go with ASP.net and C#. Moreover, this would also be an opportunity to polish my ASP.net skills.
See you soon, in the windows world !