All about web hosting

Posted on November 10, 2009 admin

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Remember that after you register your domain name (yournameofchoice.com), you need a hosting company to provide the support to build the pages on your site.
Without a hosting company, no one would be able to view your site and having a domain name would mean nothing.

Be careful because a lot of hosting companies will try to get you to register your domain name through them. Usually what is happening is that they are receiving a commission from you, and the price is going to be higher than if you’d registered it on your own.
Don’t do it.

FIRST register your domain and then when you find a hosting company just TRANSFER your
domain to them. (They’ll show you how to do it and the process is very simple).
It’s the only way I’ve ever done it.

KNOW LETS SEE WHAT IS HOSTING COMPANY AND WHAT IT PROVIDES YOU:
There are certain features that almost all hosting companies have:

1) Space For Your Pages: They will give you a certain amount of space for all of your
pages and they always measure it in “megabytes”. As a beginner, you won’t need more
than 30MB (megabytes) of space unless you plan on using lots and lots of big graphics
on your web site. Of course, you can always upgrade if you need more later.

2) Multiple Email Accounts: This would be something like tommy@yournameofchoice.com.
Most people find that 5 email addresses is enough for their site.

3) Bandwidth Limit: In English, the word “bandwidth” just means “traffic.”

Every time someone visits your site they download a page (even though they may not
realize it) and every time a page is downloaded (or transferred) to their PC,
they’re using up bandwidth on your hosting company’s server.
Hosting companies give you a limit on how much bandwidth you can use up in a month.
Usually 3GB (gigabytes) of transfer is plenty. That’s about 150,000 page hits in
a month. Most people never exceed their limits.

As you read over the hosting company’s benefits, you’ll see a lot more features than
the above three but these are the main features you’ll need to be most concerned about
as a beginner.

“How Much Does Hosting Cost?”

You normally pay the hosting company monthly and the prices can range anywhere from free to $1,000 per month.

As a beginner you shouldn’t need to pay any more that $10/month.