Web Host and Domain Names
Before starting a blog and you wish your blog to be self-hosted, i.e., if you want to have your own web hosting plan, perhaps it’s best if you know some basic definitions before you plunge into the world of online business.
The www.webhosttutorial.com stated that techie people try to make putting up a web site and getting a web host account sound hard and complicated. It isn’t. This web host tutorial will tell you everything you need to know about getting a web host account including how to tell the good web hosts from the bad. It’s written in plain, everyday English and it’s free!
Web Host
A web host stores your web site and transmits it to the internet for you. To put a web site on the internet you need three things: a domain name, a web site and a web host account.
How it works is that your domain name points to your web host’s server which is where your site is physically housed. When someone types in your domain name, the computer looks to the domain record to see where it should go to find your site. It then goes there and gets it. Here is what you should know:
A domain name is your address on the web. It’s the information that customers type in to find your website. It’s what comes after the www. in www.domain.com The domain name for this site is webhosttutorial.com.
Don’t buy your domain name from your web host. A lot of web hosts will offer to sell you a domain name with your web host account or will suggest you transfer your domain to them. Although it seems easier to keep them together, don’t do it. You should always keep your domain names with a domain name registrar.
Why? Because this way you will always control your domain name. If you let your web host register your name for you, they control it. If the host turns out to be lousy, you won’t be able to go to another web host until your current web host releases your domain. If you’re leaving they have no incentive to release your domain name and some hosts drag their feet and keep it hostage. I’ve heard some real horror stories of bad hosts taking weeks or months to release a domain name.
If you have access to your domain account it will take you less than 5 minutes to change your domain name to a new host. Basically, it’s just a lot safer and less hassle to keep them separate. Plus, you won’t pay as much. Web hosts mark up their domain prices.
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