Web hosts
The internet is filled web hosts nowadays. It’s important to understand everything about a web host so that when it comes time for you to run your own internet business or just host your own website you'll be able to make an informed decision. You want this decision to be the right decision and that’s why we created this webpage to give you the low down on web hosting.
A web host from your eyes
Typically, a web host is a company that offers a service called web hosting. This service, in the end will allow you to have your own webpage and it will be accessible via the World Wide Web.
In the end you buy up a domain name at a domain registrar and you then tell your registrar who will be hosting your website. You specify the web hosting company that you chose and the web host then takes over control. It takes up to 48 hours for the control to transfer from your domain registrar over to your web hosting company.
So what happened there was that your web host sold you storage space and bandwidth on their servers. Now you already have the domain name pointing to their servers, now their servers pointed your domain to the web hosting package that they sold you and that’s how you set things up.
Web hosting from the web hosts eyes
They sell you web hosting storage and bandwidth and try to keep you as a partner for as long as they can. A good web host will have guides and tutorials for just about everything that will help you get started running your very own online internet business.
They setup the entire configuration for you and try to make it as seamless as possible and as easy as possible for you to get your business or website up as soon as possible.
What’s next for you?
You will want to either design your own website or hire a web designer to do it for you. Then upload your website to the storage space where your domain name is pointing to(your web hosting account).
For example, let’s just say for instance that you own mydomain.com. All you have to do now is simply upload your .htm or .html files to the right directory and they will load up when you visit your domain name in a web browser. Visit web hosting forums if you need help. Your web host provider will do it for you if you ask them.
If you don’t have any money for hiring a web designer, then it’s highly recommended that you learn how to make websites yourself.
Learning to make websites
W3schools is an excellent place to start learning HTML which is the language websites are built in. In order to make a real website, you’ll want to learn and pickup the following skills in this order.
- HTML (Hyper text markup language)
- CSS (Cascading style sheets)
- XHTML (Newer version of html)
- Photoshop (Photoshop CS4 is the latest at the time of this writing)
- Dreamweaver (Dreamweaver CS4 is the latest at the time of this writing)
While all of the above learning you can find free online in the form of tutorials, it’s highly recommended to take video training courses. Search online for video training courses on any of the above, they are usually cheap and reportedly work well when trying to learn fast.
It’s highly recommended to learn all of the above skills if you want to learn to make a decent website effectively. However, don’t go out and buy a webhost for such things. Instead just use a free webhost. Free webhosts are good for one thing and one thing only, learning to make websites. For a business they are very poor quality and are definitely not reliable web hosting providers.
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