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Web hosting allows you to put a website on the Internet. Put simply, it hosts the files for your site so that when someone
enters your domain name into their browser, your web page will show up. The price of web hosting depends on what type of plan
you want to buy. For your first website, you usually only need a basic web hosting package. However, if you plan on building
several websites or receiving a high volume of traffic, you may want to upgrade your hosting plan.
Because it is such an important purchase, I have provided some web hosting tips. First, you want to pick a plan that comes with
several scripts and applications that will become useful to you as your website grows. PHP, RubyonRails, ColdFusion, Java, and
WordPress (blog app) are standard among top web hosts. Secondly, you want a host with great service and 24 hour support. Questions
come up during the course of using applications or scripts and uploading files so if you come across a question you need an answer
to, you don't want to wait until tomorrow or the next day to continue working on your website.
You also want to look for a high uptime guarantee. No server can offer 100% guaranteed uptime, but you
nevertheless want to strive for the highest percentage. Downtime is any time where your website is uploaded but not being
served by your web host. As you can imagine, this is a critical component of your purchase because customers can't buy from
you if your website is down.
The cost for most web hosting is normally $5 or more, but you can purchase it here for $3.99. Of
course if you've read the domain registration page, you know you can buy both a cheap domain name and web host at
the same site. $7.99 .net domain names and $8.99 .com domain names along with a $3.99 web hosting plan are very cheap prices and you will
find that purchasing your domain name through the same site as your server makes things more convienent as you can get live
support for both simultaneously.
Step by Step Instructions for Making a Website
To set up your website, all you need to do is purchase a domain and hosting. Then you will go into your domain control panel and
set your DNS (domain name servers) to whatever servers your host provides (for example NS1.domainhost.com and NS2.domainhost.com). Your name is
now pointed to your host. Now, you need to login to the host's control panel and add-on the domain name. This will place a file
folder (named similar to your domain - "howtogetrich") in your ftp folder. All you need to do to make the website is upload your files into the
folder and your site will be online.
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