okay so the first thing that we need to do when we create a website is that we 2
need to purchase a domain name and we can do that through Amazon route 53 3
service now that will cost us around about 11 or 12 dollars US. depending on 4
what top-level domain you select, now you can do probably half of the Lab 5
without a domain name without purchasing a domain name if you like but to do 6
the complete lab you're going to have to purchase a domain name so just a word of warning 7
that is not covered on the free tier, so we go to services and then we 8
scroll down to networking and content delivery we go to route 53 and 9
if we've never used Amazon route 53 we get this welcome screen, now we just scroll over 10
to domain registration and click get started now and then we can click on 11
register domain and we'll put in a domain name there so I'm just going to 12
get one for my son who does a little bit of coding so we'll look for thedevkid.com 13
and that is available so what we do is we can click on Add to Cart and you 14
can see there on the right hand side is a shopping cart and it's been added there 15
at cost of $12 for a dot-com domain, we scroll down and we go to continue and 16
you put in your contact details there and then once you've done that you can 17
click on continue now just the only the bottom here privacy protection is 18
enabled by default and the good thing about this is that it's free with Amazon 19
Web Services you don't have to pay extra to get privacy protection and that's one 20
thing about Amazon Web Services that with the domain name service that you 21
will find is that it's basically what they tell you it cost is what a costs 22
when you look at other services like like GoDaddy for example you're going to 23
have to pay extra for this and extra for that and the price they give you 24
is really just for that first year and then when it goes to ring you it's a lot 25
more than that. So once you're put in your contact details then you'll get 26
this review screen so just check the terms and conditions I understand that's 27
fine and there'll be a verification email that will be sent to the email 28
address that you put in the contact make sure that that email address is a valid 29
email address otherwise you're going to be in a bit of trouble so just click on 30
complete purchase and there we go so that's actually done now and so the only 31
thing that needs to happen to actually use that that the main name is that you 32
need to go to this email and click on the link for that email 33
okay so it's been around about half an hour and the process has finally completed I must say 34
it did take a lot longer this time with a brand new account that it normally 35
does with the Backspace Academy account it's normally a lot quicker for some 36
reason with a new account it does seem to take a lot longer so you will have 37
received one email saying action require to verify your email address so you if 38
you clicked on that link then you would receive another email saying that your 39
email address has been verified and then there will be a third email saying that 40
you've signed up to Amazon registrar and then around 41
about half an hour after that you will receive an email from Amazon route 53 42
and the title of that email or the subject of that email will be your 43
domain was successfully registered with route 53, so once that's done you can 44
go back into the console and you can click on register domains and you will 45
see your domain name is there all ready to go and also if you click on hosted 46
zones there will be a hosted zone already set up and we'll talk more about 47
that as we get further on into the lab that brings us to the end of the first 48
part of the lab coming up next we're going to be creating a bucket and in 49
Amazon s3 bucket and we're going to be uploading a website to the 50
bucket and we were going to be setting up website hosting from that bucket I'll 51
see you in the next one