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How does one start a website hosting? Do you need to have a special license? ….like Yahoo! is a search engine did they have to acquire a license to provide geocities for web builders?
I don't mean how do you start a website - I mean, how does one start a website host, like a website that will host other websites.

Here are some websites and web documents on how to start a web hosting business. These websites give you information on how to set up your own web hosting business:

HostingResolve.com's Starting a Web Hosting Business
http://www.hostingresolve.com/book/ch01.pdf

Becoming a Web Host Company
http://www.dedicated-servers-seek.com/?articles/hosting_company

HostLibrary.com's Starting a Web Hosting Business
http://www.hostlibrary.com/node/print/65

Another way of course is to simply become a reseller of a web hosting company, which is easier to start. Many hosting companies offer private label programs where you use their infrastructure but you can brand the business with your company name. An example of how this goes is Hostway's Private Label program http://www.hostway.com/resellers/private_label_program.html

When choosing the best website hosting company, it is important
to consider several things before making your choice. As they
say ” You never get a second chance at a first impression.” This
is true when we are talking about your website!

Web hosting is a service that allows users to post Web pages to
the Internet. A Web host, or hosting service provider (HSP), is
a business that provides the technologies and services needed
for Web sites to be viewed on the Web.

When you choose hosting for your website consider the following
things.

Price: Don’t simply look for the lowest price. Your website is
your lively hood and you need reliablity that you may not get
with cheap hosting.

Technical Support: Is it available 24 hours a day, 7 days a
week? If you have a question you need an answer.

Features: Various internet hosting companies offer a variety of
services. Make a list of what you know you want your website to
do. Here are a few services you will want to consider. Set up
fees, transfer fees, email aliases, site stats, contol panel,
site creation tool, front page extensions, submit to search
engines, sub domains, multiple domain discounts.

Disk Space: The amount of disk space that will be allotted to
your web site is another of the key elements in a good web host
package. While it might seem that 30 megabytes is plenty of
room, the potential for growth of your company means that you
could easily need more space later. If you choose a web hosting
provider that simply can’t offer more space, you might find that
your growth will be severely limited.

E-mail accounts How many e-mail accounts do you need? You’ll
probably need one for each employee and one for each department
(sales, accounts, support). Make sure you purchase a hosting
plan that has enough e-mail accounts. Also, do you want full
POPS access, Web-based e- mail, or both?

E-commerce Will you be selling goods or services through your
site? If not, there’s no need to sign up for an e-commerce web
hosting service. If you are, e-commerce web hosting services
such as shopping cart software, SSL support and a merchant
account will be vital.

Speed: You need to know how fast your internet hosting provider
can provide access to your visitors.

Uptime: This may be the most important thing when choosing the
best web hosting company. You can not make money if your web
site is down.

It is reasonsable to expect to spend $20-$30 a month for a good
hosting company. I personally use Host4Profit for my hosting
needs. I have found them to be reliable, fast, offer top
customer service, and reasonably priced. They have a web hosting
affiliate program that allows you to make $10 a month for every
person you refer to them. Refer 3 and yours is free

http://web-hosting-reviewz.com

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We have a property in Bulgaria and i want to build a free or cheap website to promote it. Are there any site hosting services which would have predesigned templates useful for property letting, including booking forms, etc.? Would prefer user recommendations rather than commercial approaches. Thanks!

http://www.travel-library.com/
http://www.homebookers.com/index.php
You can advertise your holiday home on these sites for free.
I have a holiday home in Poland and use these plus my own site. http://www.polandholidayhomerental.com
Also you can add pic's and description of your property.
I found Yahoo site builder easy to use for building my site.
You can download the program to design your site for free. but you have to pay once you have put it on line. mine costs £6.75 a month

The first requirement of going into business over the Internet is finding a web host for your website. You may find yourself with a very large number of available offers from which to choose, but most of them provide the same kind of services and use the same type of servers. If you are a newbie, the task of choosing reliable web hosting may be a rather demanding goal to achieve. The criteria you will use will be limited.

If you are a total newbie, the one thing you can compare when starting is the prices. The offers for web hosting available over the Internet may vary, starting from a few dollars per year to three times that sum per month. Now the problem that lies ahead is whether to choose the more expensive one, because it would be as reliable as the price, or go for the cheaper one, because you are just starting your business and saving money is a priority. You should consider ruling out the free web hosting option. This is not useful for earning credibility with visitors or search engines. You might find very reliable hosting for an affordable price.

Reliability is an issue that concerns most people. Most web hosting companies keep the website up 99.9% of the time. They operate their businesses from their server like everybody else and ‘lease’ the space from the same places. Therefore, reliability should not raise too many questions in most cases. However, one thing you should consider taking into consideration is support. You should test the support staff first by sending them an e-mail and see how quick they respond to that e-mail. If you do not receive an answer within a few hours, the support they offer does not rise to high standards and you should keep looking for something else. However, most web hosting companies offer great support services.

If you have a website, the process of finding a reliable web host is not very complicated. You should find the web host that is best suited for your needs and try to learn as much as you can about them from their main website. You should not take into consideration the opinions of third parties, because some of them pursue their own interests. One thing you should never do when you search for the appropriate web host is signing up through an affiliate. An affiliate is a site that earns money from the web host, if they convince you to sign up through them. These will double the price you pay for the domain name, because half of that amount would go back to the affiliate for the service it provided.

Another problem with web hosting is bandwidth. If you have problems in understanding the meaning of bandwidth, a suitable comparison would be with the difference in traffic support between a one-lane street and an eight-lane highway. On the one-lane street, the traffic would be very strenuous, especially if two cars were to come from opposite directions. Nevertheless, on the highway, the number of cars that can pass at once is very high, as are the speeds of those cars. The bandwidth is the same as the street. On a small bandwidth, the number of visitors on your website would be very low, because of the traffic support. However, on a large bandwidth, the flow of information is greater and the visitors would not encounter any problems.

Many web hosting companies have contingencies to manage the growth of your website. Even so, you should not take that for granted. Do not be shy with asking questions. This will help you make an informed decision whether the quality, reliability and effectiveness of the web hosting service are suited for you. In your search for a reliable web host, be sure to check our services, here, on targetdomain.com. Here you will find some of the best offers available on the Internet for a domain name, packed with other free bonuses. The services we offer are top ranking when it comes to quality.

There are various reasons why you might want to move your website. Your website might get so much traffic that your current hosting provider cannot meet your needs any more. Or you might have the more common reason of being tired of bad service!

Keep these points in mind when you move your website:

1. Backup, backup, backup

Your website is a precious possession and you do not want to lose it. You need to make a copy of your site as it is and then move it across to your new host. There are various ways of achieving this.

You can either

a) Use your favorite FTP program and copy the files from your ‘old’ host to a safe place on your local PC. Copy all the files and folders from your server to your local machine. This will ensure that all your files and pictures are located in the right folders.

b) You can use the built-in backup facilities of your control panel. In CPanel it is easy. For other types of control panels you will have to read the documentation or find out from your hosting provider how to do it. In CPanel, just select the Backups icon and choose the ‘Download a home directory backup’ link. This will create a ZIP file of all the files on your server.

If your site consists of straightforward HTML pages, a file backup is all that is required; however, if your site has dynamic content and is built on a database engine, you must backup your SQL database as well. This can also be done in two ways.

a) By selecting Download a MySQL Database Backup in the Backups option in your CPanel, or

b) By going directly into your MySQL database and running a full SQL export.

If you are not sure whether your site makes use of a database or not, you should definitely consult your webmaster or web hosting expert to do this for you.

2. Making the move consists of

a) creating an account with the new hosting providers and

b) changing the name server entries for your website. This can be done by logging into your domain registrar provider (like Namecheap or GoDaddy) and selecting their ‘Name server Setup’ option. When you created the new account with the new provider, you should have received an email with the name servers that you should use. These are normally in the form ns1.nameserver.net or dns1.nameserver.net… You should have received two new name servers - enter these into the name server fields and save.

Your domain has now been set to point to the new name servers, but it takes anything between 8 and 48 hours for the actual change to take place (this is called DNS propagation).

Your account has been created, the domain is going to point to the new servers, but your files have not been uploaded.

In your welcome email from your new host, you should have received information about your FTP account, as well as how to access your Control Panel account temporarily until the DNS propagation has taken place properly. You can now either upload your files through FTP, or log into your control panel (hopefully CPanel again), and go to the ‘Backups’ option again. You can now restore the file backup that you made previously, and restore the MySQL backup that you’ve made.

Your website now basically exists in two places, on the old server as well as the new server. While the DNS propagation takes place, some visitors will see the old site, and some the new. As soon as the propagation is complete, all your visitors will see the new site.

Some points to consider:

1. If you are running a dynamic site with lots of visitor interaction (e.g. a forum) it might be wise to switch off the old site completely while the propagation takes place. You might lose some visitors to the old site, but if you don’t do this you will find that visitors will still interact and post messages on the old site and these will never end up on the new one. (Remember, your backup is a snapshot in time. Anything that is posted to the old site after you have taken the backup will NOT appear on the new site)

2. Emails must also be set up on the new site. For a while you ARE going to have an interruption in the email service. It helps to change your mail server settings in your Outlook or Outlook Express to point directly to the IP address of the mail server.

3. You will lose all your logs, including all traffic logs and visitor statistics, when you move. If you are interested in retaining your log files you might or might not be able to download them to your PC and use an offline analyzer.

4. Make sure that you do the move during a low-traffic period. You should be able to see from your website statistics which periods during the week have low traffic. Remember that the move is going to take 48 hours to complete, at least.

5. Inform your customers and, visitors and web hosting company of the move.

6. Keep your old web hosting account for at least another week or two to ensure all problems are ironed out and that the DNS propagation has taken place properly.

So You’ve decided to have an online website for your business.
Before doing you will need to follow the following 5 steps in
before hosting your website online

1. Design your Website

You will firstly need to design the website for this I would
recommend hiring a Web Designer. Before contacting a web
designers you should always check the portfolio and there
skills. If you just want to advertise your business then you
need to look for a web designer who knows how to use graphical
programs such as Macromedia dreamweaver, flash, fireworks and
Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Imageready, Indesign as well as
knowledge of HTML, DHTML, CSS and Javascript. However if you
want to sell items online or have some technical calculations
etc then you should get a web designer with knowledge of online
Databases, PHP, MYSQL, perl, .net , HTML, Javascript and CSS

2. Search for a Domain Name

The Domain name is an important part of your website as this
is this web address of your actual website. You need to look
for your business name in a domain name but don’t sign up to
the domain name until you find a suitable hosting company in
stage 3

3. Sign Up to a web hosting and domain company

You will now have to sign up to a hosting company which will
also register your domain name. Look around and find the
cheapest you can find and make sure you check the disk space
can fit against your very own website as if your website is
over 50 Megabytes (MB) and the hosting company has a hosting
package that offers you 25MB disk space then you won’t be able
to put your website within this hosting package as the disk
space is to small. You should also check to see if they can
give you a free domain name with this service as well as see
whether you get a discount if you pay a year in advance.

4. Upload your website

Now that you have the hosting package you will need to upload
the web pages to your website using a file transfer program
this you can download for free or web hosting company may
offer this to you. They will give you username and passwords
wither by email or by post which you need to enter before you
transfer the files online and it may take about 24 hours before
your website is active so you may have to wait for a little
while before you can upload your website to the internet.

5. Advertise Your website

The final step in having a website is advertising your website.
This is a very important stage in creating a website as without
it you will literally be invisible on the web. You will need to
submit your website to search engines and make sure you have
appropiate meta tag keywords on your website and within your
content as this will attract the search engine to your website.
You can exchange your web links with other web sites this is
called web exchange and you can buy advertising space with on
selected websites.

As you can see you have a lot to think about when putting your
website together however if you follow the steps that I have
included in this article you should find that having a website
is benefical to you and your business.

Article written by steven saunders.

Finding cheap website hosting has never been easier. Technology and bandwidth are getting less expensive every day and the cost of website hosting is going down just the same.

Many people and small business owners have hesitated going online with a website because they don’t think they can afford to do it. They have taken a look at the large amount of money big companies are spending on their websites and hosting. But the reality is, most companies can use a cheap website hosting provider and stay well within a budget.

One place to look to in regards to cheap website hosting is free hosting services. You can not get any cheaper than that. After the dot com boom free website hosting didn’t disappear they just became a bit harder to find. There are only a few big names left in the free hosting circle such as GeoCities and Tripod.

Free hosting is good if you are just starting out and money is an issue. The problem is it has a lot of limitations. Most come with ads all over your site and you do not share in the revenue they may produce. If your site was to become popular and have a lot of visitors they could suspend your site because of to much usage or force you to sign up for a paid account. This may be the ultimate cheap website hosting but may not be what is best for you.

If you need cheap website hosting but are not sure if you want to the commitment of a yearly plan, but you don’t want the limitations that a free hosting company will impose on you, you have a few options available for your consideration.

Cheap website hosting is available on a pay as you go plan. This is not real popular as of yet but is becoming more available all the time. You do not pay a monthly fee. What you do is, put money on your account then each time someone accesses your site a small amount is taken off the books. This way you are only paying for what you are using.

Another cheap website hosting plan is finding a web host that does not make you commit to a long term agreement. Many cheap web host providers will offer a monthly plan that is reasonable and affordable. You have all the benefits, but do not have the long term commitment should you change your mind.

You can find cheap website hosting with great customer service for as little as five dollars or less a month. You will have all the disk space and bandwidth needed to make your online presence a success. To find these do your homework. Research and also find others who have used or are using a particular company you are interested in.

A word of caution in regards to some cheap website hosting companies. Do not let them over sell you. You do not need a huge amount of disk space or bandwidths so don’t pay for a excessive amount. Try and find a cheap web host that will allow you to add to your disk space or bandwidth as you go.

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