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Web hosting companies gives platform to your site so that internet users can access your site anywhere from the world. Web hosting companies gives some definite space on their server to host your site. Web hosting service where you can store your data and when some internet surfer come across your site they allow them to access your site. Hosting companies host, maintain and serving data for one or more client.

Basically web hosting makes your business online. In today market number of web hosting plans available to host your site. Mainly they categorized in two parts (1) Paid Hosting and (2) Free Hosting. In paid hosting you have to pay certain amount and they will allow specific space on their server to host your site. In free web hosting they put their banners and also pop ups appears when some one click on your site.

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A domain name is a name of your web site pointing to your company name. A domain name must be unique that solely refer to your company. Domain name is also called URL. URL is an abbreviation of Uniform Resource Locator.

Each and every domain name end with suffix which indicated Top Level Domain (TLD) it belongs to. You can use anyone of the following suffix

com - Commercial Business
info – Information Related
net - Network Organizations
org - Organizations (nonprofit)
gov - Government Agencies
edu - Educational Institutions
mil - Military
ca - Canada
th - Thailand

You can use any domain name if you have purchased it or rent it. Click on the following link to register your domain now.

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Web hosting is most competitive market and thousands of web hosting companies provide different hosting plans to attract customers.

You should look for following basic things when choosing web hosting company:

Bandwidth:-

Bandwidth means the amount of data that can be sent over the network connection in a given transmission channel. Most web hosting companies offer different plan with different bandwidth options. No one can say how much bandwidth you required for your web site. If your site offer MP3 or Media file or Images that visitor can download you need more bandwidth. All hosting plan include bandwidth requirement for one month.
If your site contains static pages and only text content 1 GB bandwidth is enough for you. If you use more bandwidth then your hosting company over charge you’re for extra usage.

Uptime:-

The amount of time a web site is available is know as Uptime. You should also know how much uptime they offer in their plan.

Features:-

Your hosting company must include following basic features:-

Domain Registration
5 MB Web Space
Unlimited Bandwidth
POP3 and SMTP Email Accounts
Technical Support
Email Forwarding
Email Autoresponder
Email Filtering
FTP Access
Toll Free Telephone Support
Server Side Include (SSI)
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Domain name represent your company name. It’s very easy to register a domain name.

Before registering any domain name you need to check its availability. You can check availability of your domain name using WHOIS lookup. Write a name that you want to register for your company and click on go and if it’s available you can register it as your domain name. Otherwise you have to choose one different domain name.

Once you checked availability of your domain you need to register it, that’s it.

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You must looking for following basic features of a web hosting plan

Disk Space: - Make sure how much disk space you require for your web site and select plan according to your requirement.

Bandwidth: - Bandwidth usage is the amount of information that is transmitted to and fro your web site. To estimate your need of bandwidth you nee to know how much is the size of your page and how much visitor visit your site.

Domain Name: - Domain name means a name pointing to your company name. Many hosting companies give free domain name when you subscribe for their service.

Email Account: - Make sure your hosting company must provider POP 3 and SMTP mailboxes to access your mail using Outlook Express, Eudora. There also variation in email account depends on plan, some hosting provider include unlimited email account in their plan to attract their customer.

FTP Access: - FTP is an abbreviation of File Transfer Protocol. Your hosting company must provide FTP Access for transferring files from client to server.

Web Statistic Analyzer: - You are hosting company also give you web statistic analyzer so you can check how many visitors come across your site.


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Bandwidth:-

Bandwidth means amount of data transferred in a fixed time period. Generally bandwidth stated in bps (bits per second), kbps (kilobits per second), or mbps (megabits per second). Web hosting companies usually have different bandwidth plan for their clients. You have to play within a limited bandwidth and if cross that limit you will be charge for over usage or they will make your site down.
The costing of your hosting plan varies on the usage of bandwidth per month. If you run a commercial site you don’t need much bandwidth. Your bandwidth usage goes high if you site contain more files to download or number of user that visit your site regularly. Ultimately if site have less html pages, less images, and less files to download you need small amount of bandwidth.

Disk Space:-

Disk space is basically amount of data store on the server of your hosting provider. Web hosting company allocate some amount of space to store data like files, directories, email message, web pages, images, etc. Hosting provider give you certain amount of space depends on your plan and whenever it require you can modify your plan for more disk space.
Requirement of disk space depends on the file size of your web site. If web site has only text content your requirement for disk space will be very less but if your site contain flash, images, media files, animation, etc your disk space requirement will be more and also your bandwidth. To reduce your file size you need to compress it before using them.