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Easy Web Hosting For Beginners (Part 2)
In Part 1 of this article we considered several
issues that you must decide about your website before you begin your search
for an easy web hosting for beginners provider. Some of those factors that
will play into the choice you eventually make include website complexity,
how much and what types of content you'll be publishing, and how involved
you yourself are going to be involved in setting it up. Because you just
want to start small, a basic personal website will become our model. (The
author also assumes that you've already registered your website's domain
name with an Internet registrar such as GoDaddy.com or one of many others.)
As we're talking about this being a basic website, we've also come to
understand that all the easy web hosting for beginners packages come with
enough tools and resources to meet your basic requirements. All packages
include an easy-to-use website design program (usually driven by automated
templates), quite a few email accounts, and a file manager program to help
you manage your website's files on your server. Many hosting companies are
also standardizing around offering unlimited disk storage space and
unlimited network traffic as part of their basic packages. (You can always
upgrade or purchase more later if needed.)
Now that your website's preliminary requirements have been determined, it's
time to move on to consider several more important topics. How long do you
plan on keeping your personal site online? Monthly plans are the standard
offering, some with very attractive discounts for a year or multi-year
engagements. If you're truly serious about putting up a website, I'd suggest
subscribing to at least a one-year plan. This not only gives you enough time
to become established online, but you'll also be taking advantage of any
special savings.
Credit cards are typically the way you pay for your hosting account. Your
hosting company usually keeps your credit card number in their database to
facilitate auto-renewals of your hosting account; most all send periodic
renewal notices prior to your plan's expiration. Since you don't want your
website to disappear from the internet, I'd strongly suggest having your
account set up this way. You won't run the risk, then, of having your
hosting account suspended due to your forgetting to renew it.
Even the easy web hosting for beginners providers' plans differ a little, so
you'll probably want to do a little comparison research. You'll want to try
to get a sense of their server and network characteristics. Here are some
things to stay alert to while you're making these comparisons:
- Each plan offered will have a list of features for that package. See what
it says about the server hardware you'll be hosted on. Try to determine if
your website will run on a generic "white box" server, or on a quality server
like those from Sun, HP, Compaq, or Dell.
- As you're a beginner to website hosting, see if your potential hosting
company offers toll-free technical support by phone in your hosting plan.
Chat and email are adequate, but you may want a higher degree of support
available.
- One IP address is typically shared among the more inexpensive hosting
accounts all located on the same server. If any of these "neighbors" of
yours engage in disreputable behavior like spamming, that IP may be blocked.
This effectively can make your own website inaccessible to others. If that
happens, get your own IP address for your website; it's typically only a
couple dollars per month extra.
These tips may seem like a lot to remember, but if you do, you'll be one of
the better-informed new webmasters out there and will come out ahead. Try to
take full advantage of any pricing specials being offered. Make your pick
and it won't be long before you'll have your own unique presence on the
World Wide Web. Enjoy!
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