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Setting up a web site hosting account to host your business web
site can be confusing. This tutorial will serve as a beginning guide
to help you understand the process and to walk you through each
of the steps of setting up a web hosting account.
Choosing A Web Host Properly - How Did You Build Your Site?
By Russ Mate
The Basics
Setting up a web hosting account for the first time can be confusing
and frustrating for the novice. This article will guide you through
the steps of setting up a new web hosting account for your website.
Setting up your web hosting account will depend upon many things,
the first of which is:
Do you already have a website built and ready to be hosted?
If the answer to that question is yes, then your next set of questions
should be:
How was your website designed? Did you design it yourself using
Microsoft FrontPage, or did you use some other WYSIWYG website building
software? Did a professional designer build your site for you? Did
they use Microsoft FrontPage, or did they use some other WYSIWYG
website building software? Did your designer use a database driven
software, such as Cold Fusion? Maybe they coded your site using
a text editor – you’ll need the answers to these questions.
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Buyer Beware: Web Hosting, Registration, and Site Building "All
in One" Package Nightmares
By Vishal P. Rao
Starting out in any type of online marketing or Internet business
can be confusing and overwhelming. There are so many different aspects
of a start-up: domain name registration and purchase, Web site host
purchasing, and of course, the "building" of the Web site
itself. This leaves many consumers looking for an easier way to
purchase everything in one place, both to save money and to save
time.
This has led to the rise of "total packages" by many hosting
and Internet development companies, where everything is included:
domain-name registration, software for design of a site or an online
method of building a site, professional design of the site, and
of course, the hosting. This is quite popular as it whittles down
the process of getting a site up and running for many new to the
Internet and online marketing.
However, with the convenience of Web-hosting packages of this sort,
there also can be inconveniences. No road is paved "with gold"
and this type of registration, hosting and design package deal is
no exception. There can be problems that surface later on when purchasing
a Web design and hosting package that also includes registration.
These problems usually present themselves in the following forms:
1. Once a Web site becomes popular, the hosting charges may rise
exorbitantly, as the "special" that was presented initially
can become inapplicable once a certain amount of traffic or the
size of the site changes. This is more of a problem for larger business
sites than for smaller business sites or "personal" or
"theme" sites.
Read more . . .
Things to ask of a Good Web Host to assure a long trouble-free Hosting
Experience
- Money Back Guarantee -
- 24/7 Customer Technical Support –
- Control Panel -
- Website Statistics –
- CGI -
- POP Email Accounts -
- Autoresponders -
- SSL Secure Server -
- Shopping Cart -
- Password Protected Areas –
- FrontPage Extensions -
- Mailing List Software -
- Streaming Media –
More details on these features
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