Hosting: Hosting registration and hosting renewal
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Be sure to look at the reviews about the hosting provider on the web workshops forums and blogs, and of course, personal communication with the staff will allow you to make a choice.
Hosting: Hosting registration and hosting renewal
What is hosting? Hosting (hosting) is the place where your resource will be stored (web site, mail, database, DNS, file storage on a dedicated file server, etc.), is a kind of service that allows network users The Internet places its information (web sites) on servers and provides access to it through the World Wide Web (WWW).
In other words: hosting
- giving to the user a portion of its server space;
- maintaining the performance of the user site on its web servers.
A hosting provider (hoster, web host, Hosting Service Provider) is a company that provides hosting services, that is, provides space on its server (hosting is a technical site) and provides round-the-clock access to Internet users to your web resource.
Hosting providers have powerful servers equipped with modern software and high-speed communication channels.
The choice of hosting is very important, since the reputation of your site directly depends on the quality of the server on which it is located. The site takes a long time to load or is simply unavailable at times - this clearly affects the reputation of your site. What will be the behavior of site visitors - if the site is not accessible? Obviously - “leaving” from this web resource to another, possibly competitive site, for you, the loss of “site visitors” and possibly the loss of potential customers.
Numerous hosting providers offer paid and free hosting. Hosting services are also provided by Internet providers, domain registrars (as an additional service).
First you need to decide what, in fact, is necessary for the site.
What should I know before buying a hosting?
First you need to decide what is needed for the site. The size of the provided disk space on the server is very important (space for the site (how many GB?)).
Hosting price - you need to choose the ratio of price and quality that best suits your needs (storage capacity, hosting stability and traffic volume). Typically, hosting providers offer several shared hosting tariffs and there is no need to overpay for services that you do not use. That is, clearly knowing the requirements for the web resource, you decide on the hosting tariff.
The volume of traffic is also important - this is the amount of information that visitors can download from your site.
Stable server operation. It is unpleasant when the site is often not accessible due to breakdowns, maintenance work or outages.
Many beginning businessmen who want to be the owner of a website are seduced by the word "Free." Why pay money if you don’t have to pay at all? For us, “Free” is associated with “cheese in a mousetrap.”
Free hosting - Free Hosting companies providing hosting (disk space) for hosting a site for free on their servers (they offer both second-level and third-level domains). For example, hosting services: bel-host.com, byethost.com, grodnohost.ru, hostinger.ru, holm.ru, taba.ru, libertytraffic.ru, topcen.org, myfreehosting.ru, ucoz.ru and others.
Time is money! A big drawback of free servers is a large load (slow server operation), slow speed and frequent server unavailability.
Initially, we believe that a third-level domain should not be considered for those entrepreneurs who are serious about their business and want to occupy a serious “position on the Web”. Let's say the company is called “Best Web Projects”. How decent would it be if you see “www.bestwebproject.ru” or, say, “www.bestwebprojects.narod.ru”? Initially, it is clear that when using a third-level domain, the company saved on hosting and, accordingly, it is not very serious about its brainchild (website). By the way, very often on such free hosting there are a lot of advertising banners of the hoster on the pages of your site (the nature of the advertisement, the size, duration of the clips and the content of the banners are determined by the service provider, not by you, and the hoster gets the money for advertising, not you). Such advertising will distract visitors to your site from the content of the site itself and don’t forget about the transitions through advertising banners to the sites of service providers, thus for you and your business this is the loss of potential customers. Yes, we agree with you, free hosting is accompanied by special tools that allow you to create a standard site in a short time (using standard template solutions). But this is acceptable for beginners, as soon it will become clear to you that your possibilities on this free hosting are limited.
Summarize the cons of free hosting
- This is a domain of only the third level (www.bestwebproject.narod.ru or www.bestwebproject.boom.ru), and should be www.bestwebproject.ru
- these are advertising banners on the pages of a free (your) site, the size and content of which is determined by the service provider
- it is possible to limit free disk space and limit the maximum file size.
- This is a low FTP access speed, which is very sad.
- this is the lack of the ability to create an archive backup of your site (if necessary, transfer it to another server).
- this is the lack of a site control panel with which it is easy to make any changes to the site.
- there is no support for a number of services (MySQL, PHP, SSI, Perl, Python, Ruby, Parser, etc.)
- this is the lack of partnerships: that is, there are no obligations on the part of the hosting provider. They both provided you free hosting and can be selected. You are only one of many users (you are not the owner of your site, just nobody).
- this is the lack of support services (some hosters have (formally) available, but they will answer you or not, and how they answer is a big question!
Be sure to look at the reviews about the hosting provider on the web workshops forums and blogs, and of course, personal communication with the staff will allow you to make a choice.
Minimum set of good hosting services:
The number of domains on one account
Domain name registration
At least 20 MB of disk space (per site)
High enough bandwidth (traffic volume)
Free technical support
E-mail Addresses Using the POP3 Protocol
Email Forwarding (Forward)
Email Answering Machines
FTP access
Free use of Perl, PHP, MySQL
Automatic backup (Backup)
Preset CMS
Price and form of payment
Password protection
Affiliate program
Reputation and quality of hosting provider services