What is a Web Host?
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Just like your cellular phone needs
a carrier (AT&T, Cingular, Verison, etc.) your website
needs a web host. If you just had the phone and no carrier,
then no calls come in or go out.
A web hosting company puts your website
on the internet via a web server. This is a powerful
computer that has server software installed. They are
connected to the internet using very large connections
from access providers like AT&T, Bell System and
the like.
The way your site gets found on the
web server is by your domain name. The ‘www.yourbusiness.com’
is like a telephone number, and actually, it is a series
of numbers like 206.123.45.6. You see it as www.yourdomain.com,
and it is transferred to the number by computers attached
to the internet!
That is the basic concept and from
here you can now start to build an internet web hosting
foundation.
Free vs. Professional Web
Hosts
People are much wiser about the internet and can tell
if your site looks like you are either a scam or just
doing your business half-heartedly.
Most free hosts require that you keep
banner ads on the top of each website page. How great,
another flashing casino ad. Is that the image you are
looking for? Not to mention the pop-up, -under and other
tricks to steal your traffic away.
It is also virtually impossible to
get search engine ranking with a website that is hosted
for free. The search engines have decided that if the
company can’t invest in a domain name and hosting,
they aren't serious. And there’s another reason,
many times the free sites go down or away.
On the domain name issue, there’s
a big difference to a prospective customer between www.yourname.com
and www.freeforallsites.com/members/sites/~yourname.
How professional is that! Or easy to remember!
The final word on free web hosting
is don’t do it if you are running a business.
This may work for a family album site or similiar personal
sites, but not for your business!
Quick Overview:
Free Webspace That Usually Comes With Dial-Up Accounts
Selecting a Domain Name
For as low as $20 a month, you can have your domain
name and website hosting! It’s a small price to
pay to have a place to send prospective customers and
to find new ones.
In selecting a domain name, our suggestion
is to work the most important keyword you want to be
found under in the search engines. For example, www.discounttoys.com
is perfect because it has the keywords people will type
in to find resources on the web.
If you don’t already have a
domain name, it is best to let the hosting company reserve
it for you. One of the big problems is people forgetting
to renew the name and then your site goes off-line.
Here at Internet Host Services, we go out of our way
to contact you prior to your domain expiring. We’ve
seen domain names just down for a few days, get scooped
up by other companies.
Quick Overview:
Your Own Domain
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