How To Host a Website
Learning how to host a website, whether it is your personal site your business, is a very simple process no matter your technical background. This is largely because of the intense competition in the web hosting marketplace these days.
Perhaps you’ve been told by a local company that they will host your website for you. Of course, it will cost you somewhere in the vicinity of $50 or more per month. Phooey! You can take your hosting into your own hands and save a ton of money.
Get a Simple Hosting Plan From a Hosting Service Online
Basically in order for you to host your website, you’ll need somewhere to put the site. This space to put your site on the internet is found on a “server”. So in order to get your site on the web, you need to put it on the server. People buy these servers and rent space out for a fee. This is the fee you will be paying when you get a simple hosting plan from a hosting service.
There are many reputable hosting companies online that will offer this service. But a really good hosting company will offer so much more actually…
1) You can host as many domains as you want for no extra charge.
2) You can put as much information (use as much memory as you want) on your sites for no extra charge. This used to cost a lot more money if you wanted to host a lot of information, such as movies, music and pictures. No more, it’s cheap today.
3) You can have as many visitors (bandwidth usage) as you could possibly want and there is no crashing of your site, or extra usage charges.
4) You can track your visitors with statistics provided by the hosting company. You’ll be able to see who visited, when, from where, and how long they stayed, among other things. This comes standard with most top hosting companies online now.
5) Unlimited email accounts- You can set up and manage unlimited email accounts on a good hosting plan.
6) Access to free blogging and website creation software. You can create free blogs with Wordpress that act as either blogs or full-fledged websites. This is included with a good hosting package.
…and more.
The beauty is, you really don’t have to learn anything except that it’s possible to take hosting into your own hands and host your own website. If you pick the right hosting company, then you’ll only need to buy the plan and watch some simple step-by-step videos to get you through any technical steps. Good 24/7 customer service will help you with anything you need also. I’ve had a site that was having problems at 10pm and the customer service at Host Monster walked me through exactly how to fix it. It wasn’t even their fault, but they still helped me. It’s like you have a “hosting guy” on call 24/7!