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Creating the first website sometimes can overwhelm a designer that he can completely forget that the website he had created won’t be seen by other internet users without a domain name and a web host. A what? After putting all the efforts in designing the web page, making it as perfect as possible, and the job isn’t finished yet? Unfortunately, the beautiful website you just created won’t see the light of day if you don’t get it a domain name and have it hosted. Simply put, you need to sign up with a web hosting company that can provide these two things so that your website will run on the World Wide Web and gets visited and read by interested viewers.
But first, you must understand the difference between web hosting and domain names. Web hosting is the space you rent or pay for on a remote computer where your website files will be stored or “hosted”. The rented space on a high-powered server can be anywhere in the world. On the other hand, domain name is the actual name of your website, e.g., “www.alphanumeric.com” . When someone types in your domain name, it will point to your web hosting account, and the website will load for the internet user to see.
Having a domain name will not get your site up and running on the online world. You need to have a web hosting account from a web hosting company that operates numerous servers containing the actual files of the different websites that have rented their server space. Some web hosting companies offer both the domain name and the web hosting services under one package. New website owners or designers will sign up for a basic plan which has the required bandwidth and sufficient storage space to get the website up and running properly. As the business grows, the need to upgrade the plan will depend on how “active” and “heavy” your site is in terms of activities and graphics or images, respectively. Sites with more videos or photos tend to require high-storage and bandwidth capacity so that the site will load fast enough for the users not to click the “back” button.
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In most case, the web hosting company will give you a free domain name as part of the package. They will register your proposed domain name and if no one owns it yet, you will be able to own the proposed domain name. Some webmasters reserve domain names long before they even have the websites. It’s a common practice to register multiple variations of a name for a single idea since they will be able to use those reserved names when they start creating their websites. This is better than having a website and you can’t seem to get the appropriate domain name for your site because someone else had reserved or registered the same name. In which case, you will be forced to use a domain name that may not have a good recall or association with the nature of your business. Most domain names are almost descriptive or indicative of the business or the website contents. Hence, it is important that your domain name is as close as to what your website is all about so that users and visitors will easily remember and recall your site.
With a good domain name, and a web hosting company, your website is all set to load so searchers can see it. Here’s a truth about biting into some cheap web hosting company.
If you are not quite sure on how the process of having a domain name and getting the service of a hosting company, you can ask your web design company to do the process for you. There are a lot of website design company who includes those services in their website design and development service. You can click here to see a sample of a web design company who includes the service to their package.
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