NearlyFreeSpeech

How to Make a Website with NearlyFreeSpeech, a Domain and Hosting Provider

• Domain is a name used to identify different websites. Example: opensourceecology.org

• Hosting is the storing of all website information. Example: the code that makes this webpage background white.

Account Registration

• Start by going to the NearlyFreeSpeech Homepage.

• Click Sign Up Now, then Create a Membership

• Fill out Member Login, Your Name, Email Address, then Check I agree...

• Within the next few minutes, an email from NearlyFreeSpeech will ask you to confirm your registration by clicking on a URL (universal resource locator). Click on the URL.

• In the same email, copy or write down the Provided Login Password

• Now log in by going to the NearlyFreeSpeech Login Webpage and typing the Member Login and the Provided Login Password

• Click on the Profile tab. In the Actions menu at the right of the webpage, click Change Password.

• Fill in Confirm Old Password with the Provided Login Password, then fill in Enter New Password and Repeat New Password with (password of your choice).

• Click Save Change.

Creating a New MySQL Process (while preparing to integrate Wordpress)

Instructions

Uploading Content

• Get a content uploader to move information into your hosted repository.

Filezilla: FTP/SFTP Uploader

• Login to your NearlyFreeSpeech control panel. Click Sites.

• In the FTP/SFTP/SSH Information chart, note Username, Password, and SSH/SFTP Hostname.

• Open the content uploader. Now fill in Host with the SSH/SFTP Hostname as noted before. Fill in Username and Password as noted before.

Modules

Working Applications