learn How can I host a website

An internet is like an open space available to all, but to make avail a plot or a space you will have to first purchase it .Since creating a website has become so effortless, anyone with an availability of the internet can create one so. But, to have a website simply does not mean having an access to internet. To have a specified website one needs to have two main things: Hosting an Domain.

Domain name Registration

Registering a domain name gets you an official address for your website on the World Wide Web so that the rest of the web can find you. Like your home address is unique in the real world, there also cannot be any duplicate addresses on the Internet, otherwise no one would know where to go! In other words domain names are unique addresses on the web.

If you want to have your own unique address on the web, your own domain name, it will cost a few bucks for each year you want to 'own' the name. The cost of registering a domain name ranges from less than $10 USD to $30 USD per year and maybe more. You can register a domain from 1 to 10 years.

The reason it costs is because there is this central 'address book' of all the world's domain names that needs to be updated and kept going - somebody's got to pay for that!

When you type in a websites domain name or click on a link to that domain name, your browser starts asking servers where that particular domain name is sitting and the servers are able to tell the browser where to go.

How to get your website 'live' on the web

Here are the two steps to going live on the web:

1. Register your domain.

2. Rent some server space.

What is the difference between .com, .net, .org, etc?

Practically speaking there is really no difference these days. Search engines don't discriminate between a .COM address and a .NET address. The only thing you might consider is that people tend to type in .COM automatically since it was the first publicly known domain extension. So when registering a domain name, I would go for the .COM first and if it was taken, I would then try for any of the others. (.net, .org, .tv, etc ...)

Renting server space to 'host' your website

When renting space on a server so that it can serve your website on the World Wide Web, it is often called 'hosting'. Companies that provide this service are often called 'host' or hosting companies. You can choose which type of hosting would you prefer: shared hosting, dedicated hosting, vps hosting or cloud hosting.

After you registered your domain, all you need to do it contact a hosting company and tell them you want to host you website and that you have a proper domain name. They will guide you through the process and you should be live on the web in no time! Some hosting companies do provide with a domain name too. You can ask them for more details if you need any.

Choosing the Right Hosting plan

You should check out the following before choosing which plan to go for as per your requirement:

1. Amount of web space

This means how much web space the web hosting company will allow you to use for your web site. This can vary but usually starts at around the 100 megabytes mark, and can go all the way up to 1000 or 2000 megabytes. For all but the biggest web sites, 100MB is more than adequate. Some web hosting companies offer much more space – they are able to do this because they know that the average web site comes in at less than 100 megabytes.

2. Number of email addresses

This means how many email addresses the hosting company will permit you to have. For budget accounts, this is usually somewhere between 1 and 10 email addresses. Some higher-end packages permit say 250 addresses.

3. Bandwidth (or data transfer)

This is a much misunderstood measure, but it is really important if your web site starts to generate a lot of interest from web users. It means the amount of data your web site can transmit to web users. For example, if a web page in your web site is 10 kilobytes (about 1000 words on the page) in size, and one Internet user views it, you have used 10 kilobytes of bandwidth. If 10 users request that page you have used 100 kilobytes of bandwidth. Bandwidth is normally measured monthly.

Most small web sites will need under half a gigabyte of bandwidth per month. That means you can serve about 52,000 web pages per month (assuming the pages are an average of 10 kilobytes in size).

Moving your web site files onto the server

After you have your domain name registered and your hosting service in place, the last step is to upload the website onto the server. You can transfer your website to your host's server using an FTP program.

An FTP program is a type of software that is used to move files from one computer to another over the Internet. FTP is the acronym for: File Transfer Protocol, this just means that this is a 'way' of moving files. There are several free FTP programs you can use to move your files onto the server, and many HTML editors and web design programs.

Conclusion

I would like to point out that Itabix now offers cheap hosting and domain registration services, that too at a great price.