Web Site Hosting - Part Two of Our Internet Business Series

If you do a search on Google for this topic you will see the following:
3,800,000 for "Web Site Hosting"

That would require an extreme amount of research to find the "best" hosting for
your site. We will get to more on that later. In our last article we showed you
how to select and register your domain name. You must have a place to host your
new domain name. The web site hosting that you select will depend on a variety
of factors. Some of these factors will require a little vision as to what you
ultimately see your web site becoming and this depends on what product or
service that you are promoting.

You will need to consider the following factors when you are looking for
hosting:
Bandwidth

This is based on the amount of traffic through your site. This includes
the amount of emails sent and the amount of traffic from visitors.

Hosting Space

This is the amount of space required to host all of the programs and
pages that your site contains. This includes the size of email boxes
(accounts) that you have for your site.

Number of Databases provided

You will ultimately using a MySQL database on your site. At a minimum
you will definitely want a database for a Blog. Many shopping carts and
tracking programs also use a database to store your records.

Allocation of IP addresses

In order to have a secure shopping cart you will want a unique IP
assigned to your domain.

Number of Email Addresses provided

You will want the ability to have multiple email addresses. It is more
convenient to be able to have a different email address for various
programs that you will be setting up on your domain.

It can be difficult to decide how much space you will actually use. You want to
have enough space and bandwidth to accommodate your site without paying
exorbitant prices if you need more of either but you do not want to pay too much
while you are still building your site. So not only do you want to start with an
amount you can work with you also want to check on what the charges will be if
you need to increase the size of either.

Example- Bandwidth and Disk Space Used

To give you an example of a typical site I have taken 4 of my sites that are of
various sizes and shown you exactly what they are currently using.

Band Width Used Physical Disk Space

Site #1 6.46 Meg 10 M
Lead Capture Site
Site #2 1.65 Gig 188 M
High Traffic Site
Site #3 1.14 Meg 21 M
Low Traffic Site
Site #4 3.39 Meg 108M

Image Hosting Main Site

You should be able to easily find hosting for less than $20.00 per month to
accommodate your site.

Linux or Windows

Ok now you can go and do a little research and find yourself a hosting service.
One more thing. I recommend finding a Linux host as opposed to a windows server.
I have used both and I have had fewer issues with Linux servers.

Name Servers

In the last issue I showed you how to choose the correct domain and register
that domain. The default settings when you register a domain point the domain to
the name servers of the registrar. You will need to repoint the domains to your
new hosting service.

So what is a Name Server?

That is how everyone finds the sites that they are looking for on the Internet.
This is not as technical an explanation as it could be but for this article it
is all you need to know.

When you type in your domain name into your browser there is basically a search
of the Domain Name System (DNS) to find where your domain resides. The system
finds your domain name server and then finds your domain name and displays the
pages of your web site.

You need to login to your account where you registered your domain name and find
the section that allows you to change your Name Server. You enter the
information for your new host’s name server and update. It can take anywhere
from 1-3 days for the new information to propagate across the Internet. I have
seen it takes a few hours to a few days. I have also seen changes take place at
a friend’s computer across the country days before I could see the changes at my
physical location.

Basic Setup of New Hosting Server

The majority of hosting that you will find is using Cpanel as the control panel
on Linux servers so I will be using this as reference if all of my articles. It
is very user friendly for beginner and advanced users. There are a few basics
that you will need to setup as soon as your server is setup.

Email Accounts

You will need to setup your default email address. This is the address that is a
catch al address. So if someone sends an email to bill-yoursite.com and you do
not have that email address setup, the email will has to be directed to the
correct location. You can accept the email or bounce it or dump it.

Accepting All Email (Not Recommended)

If you accept all email you will be inundated with a lot of junk.
Spammers will find domains and then use lists of names + your domain
name and randomly send out email in hopes of hitting an active email
box.

Bouncing Email

Instruct the email to send a return response such as Fail: No such
person at this address this will instruct the server to return all mail
that is sent to a nonexistent email addresses to be returned and also
let the sender know that the email address does not exist. Hopefully
there will be no future email sent to that address.

Dump Email

You can also dump the email that is sent to what is referred to as a
black hole. You will not have to receive the email and the sender will
never be notified that the address does not exist.

I recommend bouncing the email.

Now the basics of your server are setup. There will be a further explanation of
some other email setting to come. The default email address is important to
setup right away so that you do not use up bandwidth on junk mail.

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Bill Robinson has been building web sites and helping small business entrepreneurs since 2000. You can find excellent hosting services offered at bndreammakers.com/ccount/click.php?id=8

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