Re[2]: [Xitami] Newbie Q

[Paul Reid]

>  so they didnt see the ip address in the address bar.

Oh wait! you don't have something like http://www.joc.com
registered, so your site has to be entered by IP number and appears
as http://123.456.654.321 in the browser address bar?

(Are you 12.216.50.100 "ChaChaCha"?)

ARE you registered in any DNS? Do you have a domain registration for
something like www.joc.com? If not, then there isn't any way to
avoid using the IP number as your "name". You need a unique domain
name, and its IP needs to be knowable to anyone who wants to see
your site.

Pay the $35 to have a domain name registered. Then pay your ISP to
enter your domain name in their DNS and pointing to your IP number.

There are ways to avoid dealing with your ISP, especially if they
ban servers on your class of account, or if they deliberately change
your IP number from time to time (to make it hard to run a server on
a low-price account). I've never dealt with that, but others here
know how free-market Domain and dynamic-DNS works.

 -PRR