Web hosts provide access to your website on the Internet. They provide this service by giving you some data storage space on their server. However, web hosts offer many other bonus features to differentiate themselves from their competitors. They charge differently, some per month or year. Some offer Instant-Click website features, in which you can install a sophisticated applet for your website, such as an e-commerce set-up, with a single click of the mouse. All of the available options simply mean that to choose among web hosts, you have to learn what's available and will meet your hosting needs.
Instructions
Difficulty:
Step 1
Decide what kind of site you have that needs hosting. Answer questions about its potential size and sophistication. A huge site with a lot of data, such as a newspaper website or video website, will need a web host that offers a lot of storage space, such as Host Monster or Just Host, both of which offer unlimited data storage.
Step 2
Choose whether you want a lot of control over the look and design of your website. If so, you need a web host that lets you use an FTP (file transfer protocol) and does not require you to use its own web-building software.
Step 3
Decide whether you're willing to allow your web host to put advertisements on your website. If so, expect a cheaper monthly fee or even free web hosting but much smaller storage space capacities.
Step 4
Decide what kind of script your website uses, such as PHP (hypertext preprocessor). If a web host can't handle PHP, it can't host your website.
Step 5
Decide whether you want few bandwidth limitations and fast data transfer speeds. For website owners, bandwidth limitations essentially refers to how many visitors you have at your site, and data transfer speeds refers to how fast data from your site reaches the eyes of your visitors.
Step 6
Look into commercial web hosting, such as Host Monster or DreamHost, if you've decided that you need a lot of disk space with sophisticated features, many programming language integrations and solid bandwidth. Look into free web hosting options, such as 0000Free or 250Free, if you've decided that you don't need much data space, can live with advertisements on your site and a small bandwidth.