Free Web Hosting - Curse or Blessing ?

A Happy New Year !!

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As I promised in Dec 14 post "Earlier Christmas Presents For Readers", I  will talk about Free Microsoft Web Hosting here which many people might not know about. Also Google Free Web Hosting. This article is based on my bitter personal experience with free Web Hosting.
My next post will be Linux Hosting. - I am just kidding!!!
I wil not post articles that I do not understand at all.
But it will be a heavier article as Christmas is finished.

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My Answer is "Curse”, but I am currently using MS Free Website!!

It is a contradiction, isn’t it?

Don't use free Web Hosting/Domain Name IF YOU ARE Serious wemaster to create long term professional/business site from the start.

When I started Affiliate Internet marketing 9 months ago I did not want to spend any money on web Hosting and Domain Names.

My journey for the search of Free web Hosting is below with some hiccups and catastrophes along the way.

1. Google Blogger Free Web Hosting

I created some Google Blogger sites and this site is one of them.

I read in forum some people’s Blogger sites were deleted or suspended.
I have not been suspended,but read below. A disaster struck me.

2. Google Free Web Hosting

Then I wanted a multi-page non-blogger site and created Google Free site https://sites.google.com/site/nightwishmarketing/ which is not good looking site as it was created 9 months ago and it has been untouched since.

After 2 months the site was suspended out of the blue without any notice (no Reason).

I emailed them for any reason of the suspension.

Also I asked for lifting of suspension.

But NO REPLY.

I checked the term & conditions and I remember that I can use Google Free site for a commercial/business purpose but too many Affiliate links to redirect visitors are not allowed.

I suspected this is the reason,

As time goes by affiliate links increased so I thought Google did not like it.

But to this day I do not know the real reason,

However Google has a separate paid Web Hosting service

 If I had upgraded to this, I would not have been suspended.
There is no free lunch for Free Web Hosting.

3. Microsoft Small Business Free web hosting

However, I am determined to  to pay web Hosting and Domain name.

I was so distressed, but did Google search for free site.

I accidentally found Microsoft Small Business Free web hosting with free site builder.

And I created my current site http://nightwishmarketing.web.officelive.com/WebHosting.aspx

4. Microsoft Free Blog Web Hosting

At the same time I created a free MS blog site ,but 1 month ago they announced they would close down the blog facility and transfer all my existing posts to Can you believe? To free WordPress blog site.

What a catastrophe!!

I completed the transition from MS Blog and my blog http://nightwishmarketing.wordpress.com/ is now free hosted by WordPress

Today I noticed that Click bank affiliate links are banned from WordPress.

Another hiccup.

Today I just checked the Google Free site https://sites.google.com/site/nightwishmarketing/ as it is better to check before I write this article.

Can you believe?  It is working now. They did not tell me lifting of the suspension.

It seems suspension is lifted!!!  But I know at least 4 or 5 months it was suspended.

Now that my site evolved, using Microsoft so I will not use https://sites.google.com/site/nightwishmarketing/ any more.

I summarize disadvantages below.

• Your site is at the mercy of Administration of Free Web Hosting Provider.
• You do not have a full control of your own site.
• Your site is suspended or deleted out of the blue based on their guidelines, though your content is legitimate
• Your site is transferred to a different Web Hosting, resulting in losing some contents

Understanding my warnings if you are still interested in click http://sites.google.com/ or http://smallbusiness.officelive.com/

Please be aware that I will not be held liable for your any possible financial loss/mental stress, resulting from choosing Free web Hosting Services stated in this article.

I have not been suspended by MS for my current site for 7 months so it seems ok.

But you never know.

I am walking on a thin ice!!!

I feel MS Small Business Free web Site is very good.

I am happy so far, Space max is 500 MB.

Now my site used up 3 MB

Knowing that Free Web Hosting is “Curse”, I still use Free MS Web Hosting

So I must be an irrational and complicated person!

PS. I will post soon about "Free Domain Name" such as my site http://nightwish2010.tk/
As you might have already guessed,I do not pay any cents for Web Hosting and Domain Names. Stay Tuned!!!

Money-back guarantee

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Hi! Readers
As I memtioned it is a holiday season so I do not want to put in a heavy article.
This easy article might not interest readers,but I decided to put in here.
If you visit Web Hosting companies,you see "Money Back guarantee" period such as Hostgator 45 days, FatCow 30 days,MyHosting 30 days or iPage ANYTIME(Cany you believe this? But this is what iPage says).
Click Most Updated Discount Coupon Codes & My Personal Web Hosting Recommendations if you are interested in those.
Stay Tuned! From next post I have to put in not easy ones as those are running out!!
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Article Source : http://www.webhostingtalk.com/ permitted republishing here.

Contents
1 What is a money-back guarantee?
2. Money-back guarantee conditions
2.1 Time period
2.2 Restrictions
3 How to evaluate a money-back guarantee

What is a money-back guarantee?
A money-back guarantee is a guarantee that the merchant will refund the purchase price in full or in part if the client wants to terminate the service or return the product. The guarantee may depend on specified conditions.

Having a money-back guarantee is common for many industries, including the web hosting industry. It benefits web hosting clients by creating less risk if they choose not to stay with a particular provider, and it benefits web hosts by making their services more attractive to potential clients. While free trials used to be common in the web hosting industry, their abuse by spammers contributed to the shift toward money-back guarantees instead.

Money-back guarantee conditions
Time period
In the web hosting industry, most money-back guarantees are for 30 days or for 15 days. A 30-day guarantee offers more to potential clients, and a 15-day guarantee puts web hosting providers at less risk of having their services abused. Some money-back guarantees are for longer or shorter periods of time.

While a 30-day guarantee gives clients more time to decide if they're happy with a web host, most web hosting clients can find out what they need to know about a particular host within 15 days if they spend that time setting up their websites, testing to make sure everything works, and using customer support.

Restrictions
Some web hosting money-back guarantees are of the "no questions asked" unconditional variety. Most, however, have some restrictions on when they provide refunds. Examples of restrictions to web host money-back guarantees:

1. The guarantee applies to only some packages and not to others.

2. The guarantee applies to some types of payment terms, e.g., monthly, but not to other payment terms.

3. Certain methods of payment are non-refundable, such as checks or bank wire transfers.

4.The refund is for the time remaining for the account and not for the full amount paid.

5. A client has used the web hosting account for illegal purposes, such as spamming.

6. A client has content on the server that is harmful to the server or to other sites on the server.

7. A client uses more than a specified amount of resources, even with an unlimited package.

A client has violated the web host's Terms of Service in any way.
Some web hosts explain the restrictions to their money-back guarantee in the description of the guarantee. Others explain in their Terms of Service or other policy pages any factors that void the money-back guarantee.

How to evaluate a money-back guarantee
Not every web host offers a money-back guarantee, and all money-back guarantees are not the same. If you are looking for web hosting services, read money-back guarantees carefully and balance what they offer with other factors, such as web hosting packages and web host reviews.

Also read the Terms of Service and any other user policies for a web host you're considering. The complete information about a money-back guarantee may be on other user policy pages, and all the policy pages contain information that's important to know before choosing a web host.

Downtime

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This is to be read with Dec 24 article "Uptime"
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Downtime inverse of uptime — an expression of the proportion of time that a service is unavailable, or "down."
In the web hosting industry, what constitutes a system being down can vary widely. It may indicate that a server is disconnected from the network entirely, or powered down. Alternately, it might simply mean that an HTTP service is shut down, thus rendering all web serving unavailable.
Downtime can be either scheduled or unscheduled downtime.

Scheduled downtime

Scheduling downtime is a common event among service providers, allowing them to undertake essential system maintenance that might otherwise interrupt service to their customers.

Scheduling downtime also allows customers to make alternative arrangements to ensure business continuity during the downtime period.

Unscheduled downtime

Unscheduled downtime generally occurs after an unforeseen, catastrophic event. This may include network failures within the infrastructure provider or simply a software failure within a system.
Software failure tends to be the most common cause of unscheduled downtime, ranging from operating system failures through to application level failures.

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A Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year

I found an fantastic Youtube video shared in Mr.Chris Farrell's site today,titled "THE DIGITAL STORY OF THE NATIVITY"

Disclaimer : I subscribe  membership of MrChris Farrell - Not Criminal IM Coach/Mentor

Uptime

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!
It is just before Christmas so I do not want to put in a complicated article.
Otherwise Holiday season is ruined.
I will only try to find easy ones for the next 2 weeks!?
Guess next post. It is obvious "Downtime"
Stay Tuned.
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Uptime is a calculation of the amount of time a device is online, available, and functioning during a given time period. Conversely, downtime is a calculation of the amount of time a server is unavailable during a given time period. Many server operators use third-party uptime monitoring services to improve their uptime performance and to verify targets with their customers.

Calculating downtime

Here's a handy list to gauge how much downtime one may experience over the course of a year, based on a web hosting company's uptime guarantees:

• 99.9%: 8 hours 46 minutes
• 99.5%: 43 hours 50 minutes
• 99.0%: 87 hours 39 minutes
• 98.0%: 175 hours 19 minutes

Uptime reporting

Regular reporting of uptime performance enables stakeholders to determine whether goals and SLAs have been met, as well as enabling decisions to be taken with the aim of improving system reliability.

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Free Warning – Use Surge Protector!! Thunderstorm Struck My Computer

USE SURGE PROTECTOR!!!!!

Thunder lightening struck my computer on Dec 16 and my computer was gone!!!! So I could not post.

The moment I heard the huge sound of lightening,my computer screen went blank and I had a bit burning smell.

I have a surge protection device integrating electrical and telehone line protection.
But I did not use telephone line surge protection function,THOUGH THE DEVISE HAS THE FEATURE.
IT IS MY FAULT!!!!! I am stupid.

My broadband was down at that time so UNFORTUNATELY I was using dial up internet connection.
All equipment such as monitor, keyboard,printer etc are ok,but dialup modem and mother board were damaged and repair cost is estimated $300.
My computer was 7 years old so I decided to buy a new computer tower.
I bought one for $420.

 Also I was told that surge protector does not protect 100%.
I will plug off power cablres rather than orderly shut down of my computer if thunder lightening starts. I do not care losing data.

I really has been stressed out for the past week. Why me? Just before Christmas.
When I went to the repair shop,2 people told me their computers were struck by lightening on the same day !

A Computer is an essential item like water or food!!!

Merry Christmas and Happy new Year!!

I will post relularly as usual so Stay Tuned!!

Earlier Christmas Presents For Readers

1. Free eBook "101 Romantic Ideas"
This eBook has nothing to do with Web Hosting/Domains.
But the author is related to them.
His name is Michael Webb.
I am not kidding.
Did you get it?
Most free eBooks are useless especially in IM Industry.
But this book is very popular written by someone who has extensive media coverage including The Oprah Winfrey Show.
It is 39 pages with 101 short tips which you can easily put in practice.
I wanted to post this just before Chrismas,but I thought you need enough time to read and implement the tips so I post now.
Please feel free to pass onto your friends as The author permits this,though you cannot sell.
Cick http://cid-c8d367ec9b2a960e.office.live.com/documents.aspx which is part of my Microsoft free storage 25GB and select the book and download it.

2. Free password protected Online document storage and file sharing 25 Gb By Microsoft
I have an account with them and I uploaded The ebook above to Microsoft Skydrive.
The above ugly Url is my storage location.
Please don't ask me why it is named Skydrive!
It is stored there and you can share and download it.
Please refer to http://explore.live.com/windows-live-skydrive to learn more if you are interested.
There is no need to pay for storage with special storage/share site.
You can use this free.

I also quickly mention that my site http://nightwishmarketing.web.officelive.com/WebHosting.aspx was created by free MIcrosoft Facility i.e free MS web host and Free MS site builder.
I am not paying a cent for the site.
I will touch this topic soon as someone might be interested in creating MS Free Web Site,though Free web sites/hosting like this have many disadvantages.
Stay Tuned.

Shared Hosting

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Hi! Everyone
I found a very good short article about Shared Hosting. When it come to Web Hosting selection,newbies get started with cheap basic one and normally it is tagged "Shared Hosting". I have had some understanding of it before,but this article have given me much clearer idea,though I do not understand some technical terms yet!!
Most Newbies do not choose "Dedicated Hosting" so I will not put it in here for the time being.
I would like to first go through bare minimum otherwise too much information will drown me.
I got good news. I found another good source who permitted me to republish their articles which are very easy to read. Also I will republish some articles and videos of Mr.Chris Farrell membership site. They are really for dummies.
Stay Tuned!!!
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This article is republished,being permitted by http://www.webhostingtalk.com/
Contents
1 What is shared hosting?
2 Advantages of shared hosting
3 Disadvantages of shared hosting

What is shared hosting?
Shared web hosting, with many websites hosted on the same server, is the most common form of web hosting service. Numerous clients' websites are housed together to share the same resources (processor, memory, bandwidth, software), and the number of sites per server can be up into the thousands. In recent years, this hosting option has dynamically grown to become the most popular one.
Another term for shared hosting is virtual hosting. It is important to differentiate between "shared/virtual hosting" and "VPS hosting." Shared hosting usually entails many dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of websites intermingled on one server device. VPS hosting usually consists of less than one dozen websites (and their applications) residing on an individual server device with certain electronic partitions demarking each site into reserved zones on that server device.

 Advantages of shared hosting
Shared hosting plans are cheaper than other types of web hosting plans because the cost is shared among many similar clients or end users.
Clients can pay for only what they need and upgrade their plans when their needs grow.
It isn't necessary to know a lot about web hosting to get started with a basic website using a shared web hosting account.
Web hosts pre-install server software and updates and (usually) control panels.
Clients aren't responsible for server maintenance.

Disadvantages of shared hosting
Clients typically have limits on disk space, monthly bandwidth, and other resources such as CPU, RAM, and i/o.
Because the resources are shared, some problems with one site can affect other sites on the same server.
Root access is not available with shared hosting accounts.
Sometimes it can be a difficult or impossible task to make and restore backups.
Spammers on the same server could get the I.P. you are sharing blacklisted, resulting in having trouble sending email to some people.

Bandwidth

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Hi! Everone
I republished last time definition of "Disc Space". When you visit web Hosting Hosting company's site,first line says Disc Space and second line says Bandwidth. So I decided to find an article for bandwidth which never learnt before and I was curious about the meaning.
The article below is good,but it is not easy to understand.  I do not understand bottom half so I have to read this art in the future again.
 Don's be discouraged to read this article if you are like me!?  I hope I can post easy one next time. Stay tuned!.
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 This article is republished,being permitted by http://www.webhostingtalk.com
In normal electronic terms, bandwidth refers to a range within a band of frequencies, or data sum being transmitted in a fixed amount of time. However, in the web hosting industry, bandwidth refers to the amount of data that is transferred between a server to its client computers within a certain period of usage.
Contents
1 Bandwidth or data transfer
2 How it affects your site
3 Determining your requirements
4 Unlimited plans
5 Reducing transfers
6 FTP bandwidth

Bandwidth or data transfer

Too often, web hosts talk about bandwidth and data transfer in the same breath, but they are different, although very closely related. Bandwidth is how much data can be transferred at a time, and data transfer is how much data is being transferred.

Think of it this way. If bandwidth were a bridge, then the bigger the bridge is, the more vehicles can pass through it. In comparison, data transfer is the number of vehicles allowed on the bridge in, say, a month. In essence, data transfer is the consumption of bandwidth.

How it affects your site

The less bandwidth you have, the slower your site loads, regardless of the visitor's connection type. If you have more visitors, some of them will have to wait their turn. The less data transfer you have, the more often you'll find your site unavailable because you've reached the maximum allowed until a new month rolls by or you upgrade your account.

Determining your requirements

Usually when a host talks about bandwidth, they are referring to your monthly transfer limit. So you need to figure out what is sufficient for your site to function. You'll need to gather some information; this is fairly easy to do if you already have a site. Most of this information is available from your traffic history. If you don't have an existing site, provide an optimistic estimate if you intend to heavily promote the site. Then get ready for some math.

Find out the daily averages of:

Number of visitors / expected number of visitors
Page size including the graphics of the page
Page views / expected pages viewed by each visitor

Then, multiply them as follows:

Visitors x Page size x Page views x 30 days = Monthly Website Transfer

You should also throw in a small margin or error to take into account email traffic and your own uploads to the server. If you offer downloads, then you should add the following:

Average/Expected downloads x File Size x 30 days = Monthly Download Transfer

Unlimited plans

Bandwidth is very expensive. All hosts are limited by their own allocations. Think back to the bridge. What happens is that each visitor to your site will be given a smaller lane to transfer the data, creating many tiny lanes therefore "unlimited". The more visitors you have, the smaller each lane will be, which makes each visitor wait for the page to load.

More often than not, there is little choice over your bandwidth, as your host controls this. Some hosts may limit the number of simultaneous connections, in affect slowing down your site and refusing some visitors. This is called throttling. If you're concerned about this, you should ask the host how they control bandwidth usage or purchase a package with more data transfer.

Reducing transfers

On the other hand, you can reduce your transfer amount by building simpler, more efficient websites and optimizing your graphics. Refrain from fancy Flash presentations or streaming audio. Use CSS, and call JavaScript externally instead of embedding it in every page. Remove unwanted tags, white space, and comments. Limit your META tags to those absolutely necessary. Having too many keywords is not search engine friendly. Besides, many search engines will only review the first few and ignore the rest.

Another good idea is to cache your website, but you might want to set an expiry date in the HTTP headers so that the browser will refresh the content after a certain time. Use mod-gzip. It could save you as much as 40% of your bandwidth. Out-of-control robots can also suck down your bandwidth like a black hole. So use robots.txt to keep spiders in check.

Also be aware of hotlinking, which is what happens when another website you don't control links to your images and other media. The other site is effectively stealing your bandwidth. You can prevent other sites from doing this by checking the HTTP referrer header to prevent hotlinking - this can save you a lot of bandwidth.

FTP bandwidth

It’s also important to realize that many hosting companies calculate amount of files or data transmitted to and from clients via FTP applications or file management system as part of bandwidth. This may not consume much bandwidth. However, for those that engage in frequent data, content, or image changes, they’ll end up increasing bandwidth consumption on a large scale.

Also, it should be noted that files and digital data such as music, movies, and software downloads must be considered before uploading them. Many visitors play and listen to or watch music and video files on websites or download them onto their hard disks; both activities could increase bandwidth consumption at alarming rate. The only precaution is to limit their uses on the website.

Disk Space

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This article is republished,being permitted by http://www.webhostingtalk.com
If I keep reading the same topic which I do not understnad 100%,sometimes I lose motivation to learn. It is important to mix up (varaiety of topics and degree of undertsanding difficulty) and keep things refreshing!?
So today's topic is different from "Domains" of the last few posts and today's article is very easy to understand.
Stay Tuned.
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Disk space is a common term used in the web hosting industry and refers to the amount of space on the server hard drive.

Amount of disk space required

All data / content on a website is stored in disk space, including:

• Files
• Databases
• Images
• Scripts
• Web-based email
• Traffic logs

Web hosting clients need to know the amount of disk space that they require for these reasons:

• To know the minimum amount of disk space for the web hosting plan they choose
• To be able to plan for future needs, i.e., choose a web host with plans that they can upgrade to
• To plan their web hosting budget

Generally, hosting providers offer different hosting packages on varied platforms, so disk space that comes with them differs in scope. For example, for a shared hosting plan, the server will be shared to suit a pre-determined hosting option type. However, many web hosts offer customized hosting plans.

History of disk space pricing

When web hosting was new and web hosting clients didn't know the industry, many hosting providers cheated clients. For instance, some providers charged much higher fees for too little space, while some offered unusable or ‘shabby’ disk space and sold it through hyped-up marketing slogans and promises.
However, competition in the mid-2000s has transformed the hosting industry into one of the most diversified and enduring in the Internet world, with many legacies to show for it. One is that disk space is cheaper. Previously sharp practices have been widely eliminated, replaced by generous amounts of disk space at reasonable prices.

Cheaper disk space

Studies show that most websites average as little as 40-50KB per page. Many small website owners opt for small amounts of disk storage space. For websites with more databases, multimedia, and other content, more disk space may be required.
Some people expect that with more technological advancements, disk space will become even cheaper. However, website owners still need to understand disk space usage, procurement, advancement, and upgrading needs.

Domain Names

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This article is republished,being permitted by http://www.webhostingtalk.com
as promised before,Some definitions of technical terms will be posted.
I must admit this article is not good so if I find any better than this I will post it.
Stay Tuned.
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Domain names
Each computer on the Internet has a numeric address that acts like a telephone number, allowing each computer to find each other and talk. Mnemonic names are often used which resolve to these numeric Internet addresses, because numeric addresses are hard to remember.
Like telephone numbers, these names are broken down into hierarchical parts. A dot (.) represents the root of the hierarchy and is used as a boundary between domains (as defined in English as an area or realm under control of an entity). Below are some examples showing the hierarchy.

• . : The root namespace
• com. : The "com" top-level domain
• example.com. : The "example" domain name
• www.example.com. : The "www" host name

In the above example, "example.com" is a domain name that represents a specific domain of computers under the "com" top-level domain, and "www.example.com" is likely the web server in the "example.com" domain. The top-level domains such as ".com", ".net", and ".org" are controlled by the domain name registry, but users can register a domain name under the top-level domains in order to name the computers that they control.
The domain name registrant does not "own" the domain name but is the registered controller of it for the period of time that the domain name is registered. A domain name can be registered through a domain name registrar.

How to Get Started With a Website

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 I found an article which should have been put in here THE VERY VERY VERY FIRST. It really gives you overall picture for Web Site Publishing,including Sub Overall Pictures of Web Hosting,Domains etc which I already posted for the past 2 weeks and labelled overall pictures.

If you are looking for Web Hosting Service,you might be interested in Hostgator 50% off Offer on Cyber Monday  Nov 29.Please read my previous post below.

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If you're new to web design and web hosting, this article provides an overview of what you need to create a website and how to get it online.

Contents 1 What you need 2 Getting a domain name 2.1 Choosing and registering a domain name 2.2 Using a domain name 3 Choosing a web host 4 Building a website 4.1 Creating a website 4.2 Getting your website online 5 Attracting an audience

What you need
With few exceptions, every website needs:

• A domain name (unless you want your website to be on a subdomain of another domain, such as sitename.example.com)
• A web hosting account
• Web pages or a website builder to upload to your web hosting account
• An audience (not a necessity for the website's existence, but it's the reason behind almost every website online)

Getting a domain name

Choosing and registering a domain name

Numerous factors need to be considered when choosing a domain name, especially if the domain is for a business website. For details, see How to choose a domain name and The dos and don'ts of domain registration.
You can register a currently available domain name through any domain name registrar. The web host you choose will probably be a domain name reseller, which means that you'll be able to register a domain name through your web host. However, the usual advice is to register your domain name with a domain name registrar other than your web host. That way, if problems develop with your web host, you have the option to change your domain name settings and move your website to a different host.
You can also bid on an expiring domain at an expired domain auction house. Be sure to do a search for the domain and find out what it was used for before registering it. You don't want a domain that's been blacklisted from search engines.
Register your domain name as soon as you find one that you want. It might not be available the next day.

Using a domain name

After you have a domain name registered, you'll need to add the nameservers that your web host provides to your domain name record. Your web host will tell you what nameservers to use after you sign up for a web hosting account. Look for the nameserver fields at your domain name control panel and enter the nameserver names there.

Choosing a web host

If you have only one website, you probably want a shared hosting account. That is, unless your website is very big, will be getting a lot of traffic, or needs to have its own server for some other reason. With a shared hosting account, you'll have your own space online, but your site will be on a server with other clients' websites.
For advice on choosing a web host, see the articles in the Choosing a web host category.

Building a website

Creating a website

You have several options to create a website:

• Learn HTML, CSS, and web design principles, and design your own website.
• Buy an existing website template.
• Hire a designer to design your website for you.
• Use a content management system (CMS), for example, Joomla or Wordpress (a blog CMS that can be customized to be used for other types of sites too).
• Use an online website builder (some web hosts include website builders in their hosting plans).
• Use a combination of the above.

A CMS will allow you to add and update website content with no coding knowledge required. They have available designs (skins) to choose from, or you can design your own or hire a designer to design one for you. If you don't use a CMS, you'll need to know at least minimal HTML and CSS to update website content on your own.
A business website should look professional. Don't try to cut corners in this area. On the other hand, if your website is for personal use, it can be a useful learning experience to create it yourself.
For e-commerce website needs, see E-Commerce hosting.

Getting your website online

An FTP program will enable you to upload web page files from your computer to your web hosting account. The control panel that comes with your web hosting account may have a file manager, which provides another method to upload files.
Some control panels have options for users to upload some scripts directly to their websites, including CMS scripts.

Attracting an audience

Once your website is online and ready to be seen, attracting site visitors is usually the next goal. Search engine optimization, or SEO, is the process of improving the position of web pages in search engine results for targeted keywords.

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Hi! Readers
I was stunned to know that 53 pages were viewed in the past 24 hours.
This is the biggest HIT day since 2 weeks ago I started to Find and republish,with Authors permission, Articles for newbies/dummies like myself.

There were 36 views for the post "Domain Name Servers" in 24 hours which I felt is not easy to understand and said I cannot understand 100%

So I wonder if readers might not be newbies/dummies.

If that is the case I might have to put in intermediate leve articles even if I do not understand 100%
I would like to know readers's feed back,but the sad part is unfortunately I am not able to put in comments box in this site.
I have other Blogger blog sites and they all have Comments box so This is a mystery and I hope I can make it appear soon!? It should be my simple mistake.

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I said I will put in articles for definitions of technical terms from this time,but I put in below instead.
This forms part of articles before and conplement each other so I need this now.
Now overall pictures of Web Hosting/Domain things are finished,even though I do not understsnd 100%. Anyway I can go back these articles anytime again and again as these bare the core basis .
Don't vbe discouraged if you do not understand now. Next time I will put in light stuffs as HEAVY STUFFS ARE GONE!!
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Definition of domain name servers
Every computer on the Internet has a numeric IP address (for example, 69.20.126.7) that acts like a telephone number, allowing each computer to find and talk to other computers. Because numeric addresses are hard to remember, mnemonic names that resolve or point to these numeric Internet addresses are typically used.

The mnemonic names are called domain names, and the service that resolves the names to numbers is called Domain Name Service or Domain Name System (DNS). The servers that answer queries on how to resolve these names are called domain name servers — also DNS for short, or just name servers.

Domain name servers are accessed almost time someone goes to a web page or uses email. (Websites can also be accessed via IP addresses.)

The DNS database

One person can make up to hundreds of DNS requests in a day, and since billions of people are online at any time, the DNS system is one of the largest databases in the world. It's a distributed database, meaning that the database is maintained on computers in various locations in many different countries. No single organization is responsible for it, but millions of people update it. New IP addresses and domain names are created every day and added to the billions already in existence.

How domain name servers work

DNS and web hosting

These steps make it possible for name servers to connect people to web pages:

• Website owners register the domain names they'll be using through a domain name registrar. Domains must be currently registered.
• When users open a web hosting account with a web hosting provider, the web hosting provider sends the clients name servers to use for their account. Name servers typically start with ns1 and ns2 and then have a domain belonging to the web host. Or the clients may have private name servers using their own domain, for example, ns1.inetinteractive.com and ns2.inetinteractive.com. These name servers have IP addresses assigned to them.
• The web hosting clients must enter those name servers in their domain record via their domain name control panel. In other words, they need to point the domains to the name servers.

If the web hosting clients have more than one website on the same account (for example, if they have multi-domain hosting, a reseller account, or a VPS), they can set up additional domains via their web hosting and domain name control panels using the same name servers.
Domains can take up to 24 hours to propagate (be accessible from any computer connected to the Internet), but they often propagate within an hour or less.

DNS and website access

Domain name servers convert domains into IP addresses so that users can access the web pages that they're trying to reach.

A user types into a browser a URL, for example, http://www.webhostingtalk.com/wiki. The domain name for this page is webhostingtalk.com. When the request for the domain is made, the browser connects with a domain name server to search for the IP address for that domain. If the name server has cached the IP address for that domain, it can respond faster. If it hasn't, it connects to other name servers to try to locate the IP address for that domain. The web page will be displayed after the domain name server has successfully located the IP address for the domain.

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