Posts Tagged ‘Domain Hosting’

How to Choose a Reliable Domain or Web Host

Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
Ken Kachope asked:




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As I get involved with more and more client web sites, I am noticing an alarming trend. Nine out of ten web site owners cannot access control of their own sites!

What do I mean by this?

If you had to change to a new hosting company, how would you go about it? Do you even have the login information for your domain account? (I can hear many of you going, “Huh?”)

Or, if you want someone new to go in and make a few changes to your web site pages, can you give them FTP access? (Again, “Huh?”)

Facts You Need to Know

Every web site is comprised of two parts:

1. Domain name (i.e. yourname.com)

2. Web Hosting (i.e. the actual web spacewhere you “park” your domain)

You have to sign up and pay for each of these services separately. Even if your host offers domain name registration, it is still two separate accounts and you need to have the login information for each.

Domain Name

As I said, your domain name is your web site URL, such as yoursite.com. You must pay for ownership of your domain yearly. It’s not very expensive, but it is very important to know that is must be renewed. If you let your registration lapse, your site will disappear, even if your hosting account is current.

You need to be able to access your domain account to tell the Internet where to look for your site. Your DNS settings inside your domain account indentify the host server space where you web site files reside.

This sounds more complicated than it really is. Your host has a machine called a server that stores web site files. The DNS settings tell the Internet exactly which machine houses your files.

When you want to change hosts, you have to change these settings to correspond to the new host’s server. This is not complicated. Every host provides the information you need to do this easily, provided you can login into your domain account.

To maintain control of your business web site, you must be able to login to your domain registration account.

Web Hosting

Again, your web host provides the web space where you “park” your domain. They store your web site files (such as graphics, html files, etc.) on a machine call a server and then those files become accessible via the Internet.

You need to be able to access your web site files. This is NOT information for designers only. If you want to have complete control of your business, you need this information too.

I’ve already mentioned FTP, which stands for File Transfer Program. It is the software used to transfer files from your computer’s hard to your server space and vice versa. All changes to web sites must be made via FTP and if you don’t have the connection information, you can’t do anything to your site without the person who does.

In order to have complete control of your business web site, you must have, or be able to grant, access to your web site files.

What’s the Big Deal?

I had a host once that literally disappeared. A major break down in communication meant that while I had paid for a year’s worth of hosting, I was going to have to settle for only two months instead. My site was down and I had to find another host right away. (To this day I never heard from that host again. I was offline for weeks while I tried everything I could to reach them!)

The point is, I didn’t know how to login to my domain registration account to changes the DNS settings to my new host’s server! I had long since left the host that actually registered it for me. Thank goodness he was kind enough to simply hand over my login information at my request. Thank goodness he was even still in business!

And it’s the same with web sites. I can’t tell you how many of my clients originally started off with another designer who has moved on to other things. Some can’t even get their old designer on the phone anymore! But, when they come to me because they’ve decide to find someone new to work on it, they can’t give me access to their site. In most cases they don’t have any idea what I’m talking about when I ask.

Protect Yourself!

I know that technophobia is a real problem for some people. As soon as someone says something like “HTML” they tune out thinking there’s no way they’ll ever understand what’s being said from that point forward. But your domain and hosting are not something you can just leave to others, they are the backbone of your business web site.

It’s really not complicated. And it’s so important to maintain control of your business web site. You absolutely must have access to your domain registration account AND your web hosting account. Even if you never use the information yourself, you need to have it. Without access to both of these accounts, your business could end up dead in the water

Monday, November 2nd, 2009
Cathy Wagner asked:




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Know All Abot Domain Registration and Hosting

Sunday, March 1st, 2009

Louis Meyer asked:


The domain name of a website is an unique identity on the web. By domain registration, a company or individual can host their own website and make their presence felt on the Internet. For registering a domain few simple steps need to be followed. First step is to figure out whether the domain name is available. There are different extensions available for domains. These are .com, .org and country specific registration such as .au, .in. and .uk. Once you are sure that your preferred domain name is available you need to go ahead and book the domain either in your name or the company’s name. After you register the domain, no other entity can stake claim to that domain unless you decide to drop or sell it.

The next step is to design and develop the website. You can either book your hosting space at the time of registering your domain or at a later date. If you think that it is important to test your website in a live environment then it is better to book the hosting space when you start development of the website. The web hosting company provides the disk space with a web server necessary to launch the site. All your website files will be hosted in this space. There are different types of hosting that are available and you need to understand which one suits your requirement the best. Windows hosting, Linux hosting and JSP are some of the common hosting packages offered by web hosting companies.

Web hosting companies offer different kinds of hosting packages. Depending upon your requirement you can choose the package that suits your requirements. For a personal or small business, you just need web space around 20MB to 100MB. The hosting package that you buy depends on the technologies on which you are developing the website. A website developed in ASP can be hosted with the Windows hosting package and not the Linux hosting. This is because Linux Server will not support ASP. Similarly there are different permutations and combinations which are available. If you are developing the site on open source tools like PHP and MySQL, you should prefer to buy Linux hosting.

It is important to consider the price being paid for a domain registration and hosting service. Nowadays hosting has become very cheap. Resellers buy huge amounts of disk space and sell them at cheap rates to end customers. A Linux Reseller Hosting company can sell space of 1GB for a year at a cost which may be equivalent to a restaurant bill. However, it is important to check out the support features that are available with the hosting company. The webmaster has to interact with the hosting company on a regular basis for support on various issues. So, jot down your requirements before you go ahead. Launch your website after several beta tests and I am sure you will have a great business venture.



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Absolutely Free Domain Names

Thursday, February 12th, 2009
David Patullo asked:

With the way the Internet is growing in these days, it's no surprise that there are plenty of people that want to own your own web site. More people want to have their own domain name. Having your own domain name can be a bit difficult. There is of course the option of having a subdomain, but that will not help most people because while they have a domain name through this method will never end in the top of the list of Google results, not matter how many great keywords they use. For those who do not care, that's great because subdomains are generally free, as long as you use the free ones, and are offered by many different places. So the question on everyone's mind these days, you can get absolutely free domain names?

You can get a free domain name, in reality, but even free comes with a price. One of the biggest problems is that usually end up filling a lot of different offers. Yes, we've all gone through this stage where we offer something for free, and are thrilled that we have the new video game console, or absolutely free domain names in this case, then do you answer a lot of questions. You okay with the questions, to reach which requires a paid subscription to a magazine ridiculous to proceed. That's where you finish drawing the line and clicking the X

If they can get your domain name and manage to get it without giving up any money, then you probably notice that you have to pay for domain hosting. No domain hosting, your site will never go live because even though it has made its website, with all its cute little flash buttons and the like, never going to be live on the Internet until the cash shell for housing. Normally, you discover that the company offering the paid hosting is the same company that was free of this domain. They will get their money no matter what. If they get free accommodation along with Absolutely Free Domain Names, then you will probably find that the page is full of ads for which you have no control. You might agree with this at the moment, but then you're going to realize that this is not the website you had in mind when he went in search of domain names for free.

One more problem is with, is that if you have not acquired the rights. com,. org,. NET and all extensions of others under the sun, people are free to copy your domain name with a different extension. Say you have rubblecake.com, and someone rubblecake.org. This means that other accident can navigate this site instead of yours, it costs much traffic and ratings.

However, it is best to buy your domain name if it is serious about having your own website. It is best for you, and it is definitely better for everyone that visits to its website on a daily basis.



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