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Your Very First Website

Richard — Tue, 05 May 2009 10:24:49 +0000

For any entrepreneur, that very first website to help your business online is incredibly exciting. It is the physical proof of your business intentions and having your first website is showing the world that you have arrived.

What all new entrepreneurs must understand is that unless you have experience in web design, the chances of that brand new website succeeding is indeed slim. Web design is an art form that the designers have learnt through practical experience and this is not something you can learn overnight.

There is no shame in getting help

Your website has to be logically designed from start to finish and if the site cannot be negotiated easily, your visitors will not stay for long. If you insist on designing your own website, it is best to get yourself a practice website with some free web space. This is strictly to practice on for once you are ready to go ‘public’ you should make sure you get your own domain and make use of proper website hosting services. It is not a failure on your part to approach a professional web designer if you want to do things right from the start.

There are highly professional web design agencies that will work out a plan for you to start you off with a basic, well designed website that can expand as your needs grow and you establish your business. Do a search on the Internet, read through some blogs and visit a few forums for advice. People talk amongst each other and you will be able to find an affordable web designer that will give you excellent service.

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Web Hosting Basics

Richard — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:11:02 +0000

Choosing the right web host is a critical part of web development for any business or online enterprise. Web hosting is the serving of a website or other online presence from a dedicated web server. In most cases, except when establishing your own server, this requires the use of a dedicated web host that manages their own servers or rents servers in a data centre. Choosing the right host is essential because it ensures the proper and stable running of your website.

Web hosting service levels vary greatly with basic accounts being shared hosting accounts. Basic in name only, a shared hosting account provides you with a shared portion of a web server and while many websites are often shared on the same server the advances in server technology make this an even more viable option and for the majority of websites a shared hosting account should be ample. Other, more dedicated options, do exist.

A Virtual Private Server is a server that has been securely partitioned and each hosted account runs as though it had an entire dedicated server. This secure method of web hosting is more expensive than a shared account but typically allows much greater freedom, more storage space, and allows each account to manage multiple domains and websites.

A dedicated server can be bought or, more commonly, rented from a host or datacentre. This allows you the use of an entire server and gives you complete freedom over what you do with that server, including which software to install and the number and type of domains and websites that are stored on it. This is the most expensive web hosting option and is only usually necessary for the largest or most data sensitive of websites.

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Types Of Web Hosting

Richard — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:21:35 +0000

In order to publish a website on the Internet you will require some form of web hosting. While it is possible to set up a PC in your home or office to act as a web server there are many reasons why this might not prove to be the most effective solution especially considering the prices of web hosting accounts and the features that are offered. There are three basic types of hosting – shared hosting, VPS, and dedicated servers.

Shared hosting is the most basic and inexpensive type of hosting, offering more than adequate storage and bandwidth allowance even for larger websites with very good levels of traffic. Some software is usually installed on the server and control panels and other features make shared hosting a genuinely useful method of publishing your website.

A VPS, or Virtual Private Server, is a partitioned portion of a server. This allows for greater security than with shared hosting and typically offers greater flexibility in the software and scripts that you can install as well as an increased bandwidth and storage allowance for each website that is hosted on that server.

A dedicated server is an entire physical server used by just one company or individual allowing for the storage of large amounts of data and the publishing if extremely busy and populous websites. You can usually install any application or script while the host will still deal with the physical maintenance of the server. You can also usually ask the host to install extra hardware to further update a dedicated server.

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Is Cheap Web Hosting Good Web Hosting?

Dan — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 10:00:42 +0000

When you start the inevitable search for the best web hosting package it's understandable that you will look for those packages that cost the least amount of money but you should bear in mind that not all website hosting is necessarily good website hosting. It is certainly true that virtually every package differs slightly in what it offers and making a choice entirely dependent on the cost of the package may lead to a completely unwise decision in the web hosting package you opt for.

Your web hosting is important. Good hosting will ensure that you can provide the content and features that you want to and that visitors will be able to gain access to your site all day every day without having to undergo any long waits while the pages load. It can also help ensure that the information you store on the server is kept secure and that you don't put website visitors at any risk.

Even with modern data centre and server technology being as good as it is, it's virtually inevitable that your website will feature some downtime during its life. Whether this is routine maintenance or an unexpected outage the onus during this time from your web host will be ease of communication and professionalism. There's nothing worse than being unable to view your website, except not being able to find out why or when the problem will be resolved. Some cheap web hosting may have excellent customer service levels but it's vital that you find this out before you need to rely on it.

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An Introduction To Cpanel Hosting

Click Consult — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 08:46:31 +0000

There are many factors to consider when choosing good but cheap website hosting. As part of the web development process it is absolutely critical that you find such a host and as well as considering your current needs you should try to look to the future and determine what your needs will be in a week, a month, and even a year. While it is possible to change or expand web hosting it can prove difficult to do so with some hosts.

One feature to consider is the administration or control panel that you will have access to. Most hosting packages include some form of control panel because it allows the website owner to make changes to their own website and even manage their web hosting account without having to rely on the host themselves to perform all the necessary tasks. The most widely used and one of the most feature packed of all control panels is Cpanel. Its rich functions and powerful features make Cpanel hosting a popular choice with many Webmasters.

Cpanel has a superb collection of tools relating to your domain, your hosting account, and your website. Depending on the exact features allowed by your host it may be possible to manage and administer your databases as well as scripts that you have installed on your server. You can also typically access, read, and send email through several types of web based email software within Cpanel. A range of free scripts may also be included that let you add blogs and other elements to your website.

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