Deploying
There are quite a number of stages to go through to put DinoSpace online, so that it can be accessed on the Internet. Typically, this will involve the following:
Choosing and registering a domain name
Signing up with a hosting provider
Setting the nameservers for the domain
Creating a database on the hosting account
Exporting our local database
Importing our local database to the hosting account
Changing some of our database records
Changing our database configuration options
Uploading the files for our site
Testing
Choosing a domain name
Hopefully, by this stage, you will have already decided on the domain name you wish to use. With a site such as DinoSpace we could either combine the two names as one word, or we could hyphenate the name; this gives us more options should the TLD (top level domain, for example, .com) for our name be taken.
Sites such as DomainTools.com have whois lookup tools on them, which allow you to see if a particular domain name has been taken. Most domain name registrars...
