Website HostingWebsite hosting refers to the physical space that your website files are stored. When someone visits your website they are infact pulling information from the files sitting on your server to their internet browser. Domain NameA domain name is used to refer to the IP address where your website files are stored (your website hosting). After you have registered a domain name it will need to be connected to your web hosting account. The company building your website or providing your hosting will should handle this for you. If you are building your own website then you will need to log into your website domain name account and set the DNS server names of the servers where your website files are hosted. You man need to contact your particular hosting company for this information. Website HostingThere are various kinds of website hosting. Some companies offer website hosting for free. Free hosting usually comes with many restrictions and may be ad supported, meaning there will be ads throughout your website. Free hosting may also restrict you from using your own domain name or may become unavailable at anytime, thereby removing your website from the world wide web without notice. Better website hosting can be as cheap as $1.99 per month. You will normally, however, get what you pay for. Your web hosting may come with very limited support and may be congested, causing extremely slow load time, simply because of the high numbers of accounts sitting on one particular server. If you are going to depend on your website for your business it is best to spend the extra few bucks for a server more capable of managing traffic. You can get good hosting for about $5 - $10 per month. Best hosting solution for business websites. The best solution is to get hosting with a dedicated IP, rather than hosting that is on a shared IP. This will normally cost $15 per month but is worth it if you want a more secure and functional website and want to insure that your website is not affected by other websites sharing your IP address. You will need a dedicated IP address is you are going to have a SSL certificate installed on your website. An SSL certificate is highly recommended for websites accepting payment or sensitive information online. Contact us if you are in need of services or information related to hosting for your business website.
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