How to Host a Website

August 28, 2011 by: admin

Learning how to host a website can seem very confusing, with lots of education involved, however, there is a simple way to host a Web site yourself. Follow this 3 step process.

Choose a good web hosting company-If you want to host a Web site, or maybe a lot of multiple sites, then you must put your files on a “server”. These files are then placed on the Web from the server. Web hosting companies have many servers and they rent space.

If you are just starting with a base site (or several websites), a “common plan” is probably the way you want to go. This means that you share the server space with many other clients.

Good web hosting companies will allow you to host unlimited domains, unlimited memory to your sites, unlimited bandwidth, etc. .. Search for the word “unlimited” in the features and you know you will not experience additional costs in the future, transcending all boundaries.

Choose a large field-name A good hosting company will give you a free domain for life when you sign up for their plan. Choose a domain name is a process that you want to put a lot of thought into.

If you have a website on “Wheels goat cheese,” then maybe a good site would be called Wheels.com goat cheese. Or maybe you want to make a catchy name instead.

Download a free FTP client FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is a way to transfer your website files on the server that you now have access to since you bought a plan. These FTP programs can be free to download and use. A voucher for a PC is “FileZilla” and good for Mac is called “Cyberduck”. These will come in handy when you need to transfer files to the server.http://www.bloggersandmarketers.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Guide-To-Web-Hosting.jpg

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