Setting up a website takes a bit more work than just creating a couple of pages and publishing them on the internet. You’ll need a host that will store store your website and all of its content.
Setting up website hosting is one of the most important parts of getting your website up and running.
Both free and Paid hosting options are available. For the most part, you’re going to want to pay for your website hosting, however that’s just not always a possibility for everyone right away, so discuss both options briefly.
Free Hosting
There are many free website hosting sites on the internet, but these will not be an acceptable solution for most businesses. Free website hosting gives you very limited storage and bandwidth, and are heavily paid for by advertisements, face it, if someone’s making money by having banners on your webpage, you want it to be you.
Some things to look for in a free host is, can you use your own domain name? Will you have FTP access? If you can at the very leaste use your own domain name, then you can later move that domain to a server that is not ad supported, even if you can’t FTP your files, you can save each one individually as HTML and move them to their new home.
If there is a bandwidth limit, your website will likely go down if you go over that limit, many paid options have this restriction as well, so you’re going to want to ask around and find out about how much bandwidth you are using. We will discuss this later in this tutorial, but in the meantime, feel free to visit the webmaster forum for advice
If you plan on having a very small site without a high amount of traffic, you can simply fill out the registration on the associated free hosting site , check out the sites FAQ and help files for information on building and setting up your new website.
Paid Hosting Packages
The majority of online business will find that paid web hosting packages are the most cost effective answer for their website. The prices charged for these services will be set by your business’ needs.
A good website host will provide you with more storage space than your site needs, as well as a level of bandwidth that will support more traffic than you expect your site to have. Once you have chosen and purchased the package appropriate for your website, you can begin creating and uploading your pages to the server. The website host will keep your pages up and running for the life of your contract with them, however, it is ALWAYS a good idea to keep backups of your website on your computer just incase your hosts server should crash and or disapear.
Most of these services have customer support that can assist you with any hosting needs you may have in setting up your website on their servers. For the most part, deciding just how much space and bandwidth you will need is all you need to do. You can then begin shopping around for the provider that will give you the best price and features within your specifications.
Keep your eye out here, as we’ll be reviewing all of the best hosting providers very soon.
In the meantime, check out the Hosting Forums and feel free to ask other webmasters their opinions of the companies listed.
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