Hosting on custom url/domain

[Stobot]

Hello all,

I'm curious if there's any guide out there for people that have no web development experience to get their site hosted on their custom domain/url. 

I have hosted wikis at tiddlyspot.com & tiddlyhost.com (thanks Simon), github (thanks for the directions Mohammad) and can edit them all online.

I also own a custom domain that's just my name - intent is to use mainly as online resume or something. Let's call it myawesomename.com - but I don't know how to use the two of them together. I got my domain from google domains, and I just have myawesomename.com forward to myawesomename.tiddlyspot.com, but am curious if it's easier than it seems to set that up. 

I expect this would be some hosting charge, but maybe it's relatively inexpensive. Is there an easy and inexpensive method out there that anyone's documented or can point me to?

[PMario]

Hi,

github allows you to "bring your own domain" and it's relatively straight forward.

https://docs.github.com/en/pages/configuring-a-custom-domain-for-your-github-pages-site

If that doesn't work out, let us know!

have fun!

mario

[PMario]

Hi,

Be aware, if you change your DNS domain settings, it may take some time, until they are propagated. So changing them may need several hours!!

[Stobot]

Great! Thanks Mario!

[TW Tones]

Stobot,

Some tips that may be relevant?

• If you have an internet host, myname.com if you place index.html which is you tiddlywiki at this address, eg in the public_html folder it will load at that address.
• I suggest setting a splash screen so if it is slow to load people know something is happening.
• Once established however tiddlywikis can just be files myname.com/mywiki.html or a "folder" containing an index.html myname.com/folder
• If you own a domain you can also provision subdomains. mywiki.myname.com which also use index.html
• Addresses can also have a html file (php and others) that subsequently redirects the domain to Another address.

Regards

Tones

[Stobot]

Thanks for the tips Tones - I was interested in checking out subdomains too but haven't tried it yet :)