A Guide to Webhosting for Newbies – A Beginning
Welcome back! As I promised last week, I am starting a series of posts about web hosting services for the newbie. These are designed with the newbie in mind, but the information is pertinent for anyone with questions about web hosting.
With that said, let’s dive in:
As we all know the Internet is make up of millions of individual websites. These websites can range from online shopping to photo sharing, social networking to government related information. Pretty much anyone can get ‘online’ today check their bank account balance or chat with a friend or relative on the other side of the world, or post a photo of something they did today. They can read the news and check their local TV listings.
The ‘bigger’, more popular websites are more than likely housed on a dedicated server or servers and hosted ‘in house’. Smaller websites will probably use a different type of web hosting. In this series, I am going to cover the basic information that a newbie is going to need to make a decision on which web hosting company to choose for their website.
In a nutshell, the hosting company will provide the ’space’ needed for your site. Think of this as being similar to the hard drive space on your own computer. You have thousands, if not millions, of files on your computer and these files are stored on your hard drive. That drive has a limited amount of space to store those files. The same goes for your web hosting company. They have servers that have hard disk space in them and you are going to pay them for a certain amount of space to store your website files on.
The hosting company will also provide you with ‘bandwidth’. Think of this as the number of people who are going to be visiting your site. This number will be either in the megabytes, or in the case of a semi-busy site, in gigabytes, all depending on the package that you purchase.
At this point, I don’t want you to get caught up in a lot of the technical stuff about hosting because I will touch on some of that and explain it as we go along. You do need to know this; if you are at all wanting to have some sort of ’space’ for friends, family, customers, to come and electronically visit, you need webhosting, whether it be free or paid.
Some of the things I will be going over in this series will be:
The types of webhosting and the differences
What to look for in a web host
Working with cPanel
How to point your domain name to your webhost
Getting your website up and online
Alrighty…there’s a beginning for you. Stay tuned for the next posting…and if it’s easier, you can sign up for my newsletter to be notified each time I post, or you can follow me on twitter.
One very important item before I close; my Giveaway Events page has been updated with a couple of them that start tomorrow…so you still have the opportunity to join and submit your gift.
Until the next time,
Here’s to YOUR Online Successes
Ron
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It’s a great idea to start at the beginning. Looking forward to your series.
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Web hosting can be very confusing to many people. There’s so much to learn when you first want to set up your own web presence and Web hosting is one of the first things that needs to be done. I look forward to the rest of your series.
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This is a subject that should interest a lot of readers. Anyone online needs to establish their own web presence and that means their own website. Sounds like you will be covering a lot in this new series – will be checking in to see how it is going.
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You have started a very important series for newbies online. I would have really liked to have something like this when I first started my websites and needed to house all of my files. This will be good and even some seasoned vets of the internet might pick something up.
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Great topic, and I look forward to reading the rest of your posts about it.
I just wanted to make one comment now, in case someone is looking to buy hosting… one important aspect of a good web host is their customer/technical support. I would suggest not to buy any hosting if their support isn’t 110%.
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Great idea Ron! As you know, Teri & I have over 150 sites online spread over 5 different hosts – and many people in our league have a lot more than that. Since building a 6 or 7-figure a year business online usually requires a marketer to have numerous sites, it’s very important for marketers to understand hosting and it’s ins and outs completely – it’s too crucial a part of your operations to take lightly.
Will be following this series with interest!
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Great post, Ron, very helpful for newcomers. Looking forward to the rest of the series.
Enjoy the journey.
Mandy
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Good basics are always good content. can I suggest perhaps a quick Video Demo of some of the concepts?
It will help people even more.
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Hey Ron,
Great post man, ive only recently got back into the internet marketing thing so ive been going through all the blogs again!! The info you provide is quite refreshing to here and also like to say I love your blog design, where did you pick that up!! Ron would you have any tips on how to drive traffic to my blog, I need to grow my list as I have been away for ages!!
Until Next Time!!
Paul
Unfortunately many people have no idea how much added work they will have in their lives if their hosting company does not have cpanel.
That is the first thing that I look for simply because cpanel is essential to make life easier.
I also look at reputation – how many people recommend this hosting company?
You have some great tips here.
Thanks for sharing these great tips- I look forward to your next posts.
All the best,
Eren
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Hi Ron, great idea my friend. I wish i had found you when i was starting out, it would’ve saved me months of mess ups.
Look forward to future issues Ron.
Respect & Regards
Barry
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Hi Ron,
Really refreshing post on hosting , i say that because not many people cover the basic infomation needed by newbies in order to make a wise and informed desicion on what company to choose and what package to buy !
TTFN….Ed.