By: Ken Solman
Submitted: 2010-06-03 07:55:49 | Word Count: 497
Step by step on how to register a domain name and web hosting, what it all is about.
For your website you need somewhere to store all your files. Documents, Images, etc. Pricings for hosting can vary from $3.95 up to $15 or more per month, depending on a few things (Number of Visitors, large files hosted, images)
What is bandwidth?
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Each hosting plan you look at has a bandwidth limit, this is normally a per month limit, if you look at bandwidth like a bunch of cars on a highway it tells you how many cars are allow to go on a highway before you need to add another lane, it also means that only a certain amount of cars can go via that highway per month. If you have big video file (a large truck) it takes up more bandwidth. Smaller files/images mean smaller cars, meaning more traffic can go through, so try making files small if possible.
What is the difference between Windows and Linux host?
When you see on a hosting website, “Windows server” or “Linux server” then its giving you the option on what programming language your website is written in. Talk to your webmaster about this. PHP programming language runs on Linux systems and ASP programming language runs on Windows systems.
Domain Name: You buy your hosting or host it on your own machine; You need a simple way to point to your hosting space. For your website to look professional and easy to remember you can register your own domain name. A domain name is looks like: “yourname.com” or “tassiedevil.net” etc. They come in many extensions, the most common being .COM. Domain names are extremely cheap now days and I’d recommend.
So many hosting and domain registration websites, simple please:
I’ve used the internet for a while now and there’s hundreds and hundreds of hosting website and domain name registration places, one that I’d have to recommend would be CheapDomainSeller.com. Cheap Domain Seller sells both Domain Name and hosting, if buying both they give discounts ($1.99 domain names, $3.95/mo hosting), One click install scripts(forum, photo galleries,blogging) and much more. All with a basic plan for a medium size website via the hostingdude.com website:
Economy Plan:
• 5 GB Space • 250 GB Transfer
• 500 Email Accounts • FREE! Software
• 10 MySQL Databases • 50 Email Forwards
• Forums, Blogging, Photo Galleries • No ads
How to upload a website:
If via the above plan, you can use the program “Microsoft frontpage” or FTP to upload your website. There are many free FTP clients such as a program called “smart ftp”. For full details on how to connect to your website hosted on cheapdomainseller.com check out their website.
