TRAINING COURSE: How To Build Your Own Website?
Module 2 – How To Setup Your Web Hosting?
In order to have your website on the Internet, you need a place to store it so that the public can find it. And this place is provided by a web hosting company. So, in this training we will teach you how to setup your web hosting.
What is Web Hosting?
When you purchase web hosting, you are actually renting a space on the Internet. That space is actually just a hard drive space along with some very useful applications and important website tools from the web host company that provides them. We called that “space” a web server.
The Web Host makes sure your website is available to people who are browsing the Internet. You are paying for bandwidth which, in layman terms, is just a measurement of accessibility between the public and your website files. When someone views your website, for example, they are spending your bandwidth.
Good news is that bandwidth (and all other hosting functions) are not that expensive nowadays as compared in the older days.
Types of Web Hosting
There are different types of web hosting plans as described below. Which type shall depends on your website and budget. Usually as a beginner, the Shared Hosting or the Multi-Domain Hosting is sufficient with less money to spend.
Shared Hosting
Shared hosting is the most common type of web hosting account. Most of the websites you visit are on a shared host.
Shared hosting simply means that the web hosting account is SHARED on a server with many other web hosting accounts. Some web hosts actually store more than a thousand websites on one server! That may sound like a lot of sharing, but depending on the size of the web server, its hardware, drive space capacity, bandwidth, connection, RAM, processing speed, it may be just fine.
Multi-Domain Hosting
This form of shared hosting has become popular in recent months with users who want an easy way to manage several websites in one hosting account. A multi-domain hosting account allows the user to host a main domain name on a shared server, but be able to create additional ADD-ON domains under the structure of the main website. The server uses a sub-domain in the background as a storage facility for an add-on domain’s website files and thereby creates a virtual “sub-website” without the cost of purchasing an additional web hosting account.
Dedicated Hosting
You might say that the opposite of shared hosting is DEDICATED hosting. Dedicated hosting is much more expensive than shared hosting, in that the user of a dedicated server does not share that server with any other users. While this can cost as much as 40 times the cost of shared hosting, there are many advantages of using a dedicated server.
Reseller Hosting
This type of hosting plan is designed to serve professionals such as web designers or business people who want to provide hosting to THEIR customers. Reseller hosting plans allow the user to resell web hosting at retail prices and pay wholesale, or bulk prices for their services.
Getting a Web Hosting Account Set Up
It is not difficult to get a Web Hosting Account set up. At whichever web host, it is a matter of telling them what domain you want to use (either provide them with your existing domain name that you have registered yourself or let the web host register one for you), then choose your hosting plan.
Below is the video using HostGator as an example for setting up your web hosting.
There are many web hosting company in the internet. You can do your research base on your own requirements like cost, space required, type of hosting, after-sale support, etc.
For me, I am very happy with D9 Hosting which host this website for me. I view support as the most important aspect of a web host because they must be reliable to keep our website 24/7 always in operation and when there is a problem, they are always available to solve it immediately. D9 Hosting has met my expectation and I fully recommend them to anyone who want a good and reliable web host.
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