How To Organize Your First Website – Part II
In Part I of this series, we explained about registering a domain name. Now that you have registered your domain name, you will need to setup a hosting account so that your website can physically exist somewhere. Don’t worry too much, once this step is done, you will not need to repeat it.
Part II – Setup Your Hosting Account
Once you have decided on a web hosting company, you’ll need choose a hosting account type. This is important, but don’t let it stress you out. The two main decisions to make are what level hosting account you will choose and what the platform will be.
Choosing the right level hosting plan
For the most part, the decision you will have to make will be something like “Economy”, “Professional” or “Enterprise.” The actual names of the plans might vary, but they will be called something like that. The Economy plan will be, as you might expect, the cheapest. By today’s standards, an economy web hosting plan should cost between $5 and $8. The disk space, bandwidth and add-on features will be limited, but if your website will be little more than an online business card, this is more than enough. If you have a small business that will rely on your website for email, file storage or even some ecommerce, you will most likely want the “Professional” package as it will offer a more substantial amount of everything. If your business is more than 10 people, generating serious revenue and the website is a key component of your revenue stream, you will want the “Enterprise” or “Super Duper” package.
Choosing the right platform for your web hosting account
The two most popular platforms are Windows and Linux. Which platform to choose is a decision that should be made by the person who will handle the actual programming for you. If you will be the programmer, the main difference between the two is the web server software, programming language and database. With Widows, the web server is IIS (Internet Information Services), and programming language will be ASP or ASP.NET and the database will most likely be Microsoft SQL Server. If you are using Linux, the web server will be Apache, the programming language will probably be PHP and the database will probably be MySql. HTML is common to both platforms, but building a website with just HTML will put some limits on what you can really pull off. There is some crossover between these platforms. For example, with some hosting companies, if you are using Windows and IIS 7, you might be able to use PHP.
In Part III, we will discuss building the actual we pages
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