The Boring Technical Details

The following is a summary of the effort and resources expended in putting this RAF 550 Squadron and North Killingholme Association page on-line:

• Time it took to register domain name: 2mins
• Cost of registering domain name: £ 2.99 / year (min 2 years)
• Cost of mailboxes for domain name: £ 0.69 / month (12 months)
• Toal cost of registering: £ 15.10 (inc. of VAT and discounts)
• Time it took for domain name to become live (i.e. be fully registered on Domain Name Servers, a one-off activity):
• ca. 3hrs (theoretical maximum, usually less)
• thereafter live and accessible from anywhere on the Internet
• Time to construct and test this particular web-page (on local network):
• configure web-server to serve up pages for this domain name (one-off activity on an exising web-server): 10mins
• generate and test web-page (inc. scanning documents and creating screen images): 15-20mins
• Time to do initial check that web-pages are accessible from the Internet: the time it took for domain name to become live on DNS
• Constructing data entry forms and back-end database access routines, etc, took a little longer!
• Location of server:
• somewhere in darkest Surrey