Tonight I have finally figured out what all my problems have been trying to transfer http://tombammann.homedns.org/any-post-link to http://tombammann.org/any-post-link
Basically, I was using dyndns.com to purchase my domain name of tombammann.org, and then using dyndns.com‘s paid service to redirect the dynamic domain of tombammann.homedns.org to tombammann.org. You see, with dyndns.com you can create a free dynamic dns to your computer using an update client. You can buy a domain name through them, but then they charge you about the same amount again for a cloaked redirect. A cloaked redirect is where you redirect the site from a friendly domain name to the real domain name, whilst hiding the real domain name. I paid for and used this, but it was totally crap. After about a week, it probably worked for a few hours at a time and totalled about 40% success rate over the week. I was able to confirm that it was purely the cloaked redirect that was the problem, so I thought I’d try somewhere else that I was recommended on the WordPress.org support forums, zoneedit.com.
With zoneedit.com, you can create a free account, and they supply free nameservers for your domain name which you can purchase cheaply anywhere, and then they provide a free dynamic redirect of that domain name to your computer. This works similar to dyndns.com, except you don’t have that cloak redirect middle ground which dyndns.com was screwing me over with.
So in summary, to host your locally hosted website on the internet, simply purchase your domain anywhere, as long as it is cheap, tell the people you bought it from the nameservers of zoneedit, create your free zoneedit account, and then setup your free dynamic cloaked redirect. Dyndns.com will offer you a piece of crap at the expense of your wallet, whilst zoneedit.com will just give you the good stuff outright, because their business philosopy is to attract potential long term customers with a taste of quality service.
Thankyou zonedit!
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