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Introduction

Domain names
Domain Name Checker
Dedicated Hosting
Shared Hosting
Host Choosing Checklist
Beware

Free Hosts Look for the word Free
Paid Hosts  
Adult Site Hosts  
Hosting Services  
Hosting Problems  

Introduction

In order to put a web page onto the World Wide Web (WWW) you require the services of other companies.

  • An Internet service provider (ISP), to connect you to the Internet
  • A Web hosting company
  • Alternatively you can have a web design company such as AireWeb obtain the above services for you.

Your Web Site will also require a name. If you use your ISP as a host or a free Web host, then the name will be incorporated into the hosts URL

Example: My M206 site hosted on my ISP, AOL

http://members.aol.com/M206ou/m206/index.htm
Usually the URL is lengthy and gives the impression of cheapness.

A more professional site will obtain a Domain Name.

Domain Name

The domain name of my site, for my home town Leeds is leeds-uk.com
and the URL for the site is

http://www.leeds-uk.com this can be shortened to www.leeds-uk.com

A domain name should be short and snappy, go.com is a fine example. Unfortunately most of the short snappy domain names have been already purchased.

When I registered leeds-uk leeds.com and cityofleeds.com had already been registered.

Domain names have an extension. The common ones .com, and .co.uk, will be familiar with, but there are many others. The cost of domains varies according to the extension, and the company you obtain the name from. Most Web hosting services can obtain a domain name for you. Prices are usually between £5 - £20 pound a year. You may have to register for 2 years.

For your convenience you can either check on the availability or order your domain name from either of the 3 links below. I suggest that you purchase a suitable name before somebody else buys it.


Oneandone

Hostaway

ukdomains

 

 

Web hosting

A Web host is a company that stores its customers Web pages on their Web Servers. The customer is given a password so that the web pages either, new or amended, for that customer can be uploaded. Although it is possible to host on your own computer, requiring a fair amount of expertise. The majority of people use the services of an hosting company.

Dedicated Hosting

Although handled by the hosting company, the Web site has its own server. Giving the site webmaster (you) more control over the choice of operating system and the back end of the server. More expensive than shared hosting.

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Shared Hosting

This is basic but economic Web hosting method and numerous Web sites share the server. Usually limited web space and the amount of traffic may make the site slow for the servers bandwidth. Most personal and small businesses use this type of free or economically priced method.

Host Choosing Checklist

  • Does the host service accept commercial site.
  • Can your hosting service provide more Web space and services as your site grows.
  • Does the host provide a 24/7
  • Does your host charge for data transfer.
  • Time the server is up and running. A good time is essential for e-commerce. This is often quoted as a percentage of 24/7, e.g. 99.9%
  • Quality of Customer service, are expensive premium/national/local/free telephone charges charged for telephone queries.
  • Cost of transferring Domain names.

Beware

There are pitfalls in obtaining the wrong host. Visit the following site for more details
http://www.contentious.com/articles/V2/2-4/editorial2-4.html

 

Paid Hosts

A paid host would be needed for large and e-commerce sites. It is much easier to use your own domain names, especially if the host obtains your Domain names.

Faster connections are usually obtained from paid hosts.

 

Adult Site Hosts

Most hosting companies do not allow adult web sites to be hosted on there servers. This should be stated in there TOS (Terms of Service). If it is not listed assume it is not allowed. The hosts that allow adult content usually make it quiet obvious that they do and generally charge higher fees.
If you wish to set up an adult site be aware that photographs use a lot of bandwidth. Many hosts only allow a certain amount of bandwidth to be used per day or month. Additional bandwidth has to be paid for, so what appears to be a reasonable monthly charge may not be when additional bandwidth is taken into account.

If you are a reseller of Web space and your host does not allow adult sites, you must ensure that your clients do not wish to run an adult Web site.

 

 

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This Site's Hosting

This site is hosted at oneandone
Why not check out there available packages and prices now

 

Hosting Sites

Prices and details are only given as a guide, please check details, and read online terms before signing.

 

Highly recommended- John

Oneandone have various hosting packages on both Linux or Windows servers.

You can obtain a simple package right through to an E-commerce package

You can also obtain a Domain name from them as well

Highly Recommended

After considering the hosting market I picked 1&1 to host this site in December 2001. I have been completely pleased with the hosting service and can highly recommend it.

Hostway-uk.com

   

www.bravenet.com

Free Basic Package

  • 20 MB
  • 512 data transfer
  • Web page templates
  • Tools:- site building and promotion.
  • File manager

Bannerless Package $69.95 for a year

  • 30 MB
  • 2.5 MB File Size
  • 1 Gb Monthly Bandwidth
  • Free Stats Package
  • FTP Access
  • NO Banner

Larger Packages available

Recommended

Visit Bravenet's Free Web Site Tools Section

http://easily.co.uk/ USA $25 year  
http://www.fasthosts.co.uk    
http://www.name2host.com

A package $25 year
Domain
10 Sub-domains
25mb Web Space
1Gb traffic/month

B package $35 year
Domain
10 Sub-domains
100mb Web Space
3Gb traffic/month
5mb MySql Space
CGI/PHP Support

 

 

 

Recommended

http://www.linkstream.net/

100mb Web Space  $79 year
5Gb traffic/month
MySql database
PHP Perl Python
SSI CGI
+ more features

Recommended
http://www.freeola.com/

Register the Domain and get good quality FREE hosting

FTP uploading has got to be done through their (local rate) line

Recommended
http://www.ukreg.com    
http://uk.tophosts.com    
http://www.easyspace.com USA Free or as low as $4.99 month  
http://www.uklinux.net   For non Linux users as well.
http://www1.domaindlx.com USA Free  
http://www.brinkster.com Free. No FTP uploading. Uploading therefore can be a pain if you wish to upload several pages.  
http://www.dencity.com Free Very annoying pop up advert windows.
http://www.Just-the_name.co.uk

.co.uk £7.99
.com £29.99

Yes
http://www.hostone.com    
xcalibre.com    
http://hosts4porn.com   Porn

Hosting Problems

Company goes into liquidation

http://www.netmag.co.uk/tutorials/default.asp?subsectionid=26&articleid=54654&pagetype=2

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