Putting Your Web Site On The Internet

 
You need a web server to put your web site on the internet. Sometimes, owning and maintaining a web server can cost money and it requires someone who knows what they are doing to maintain the server and the website.

A web host can do this for you.

They provide equipment and other technical programs that are required to build a customer a website.

These hosting companies charge a monthly fee for the service of storing your web site and allowing your web site to be seen on the internet.

Within that fee, it allows website visitor traffic to flow through their servers so people can view your site on the internet.

The physical web server does not reside at the consumers home or business which means that the web host services are designated as outsourced services.

This means that the hosting organization that you choose has the responsibility to maintain your site structure, files and web pages.

Many web hosts provide excellent services that really assist individuals and business owners.

All the weight of maintaining the host servers and application fall on the hosting company and not the individual and as a business owner, this is great because there are so many technical routines that you have to do daily to maintain a server.

When you pick a web host to handle your internet server needs, you achieve the following:

You streamline your internet costs getting the maximum from your hosting provider;

Work with knowledgeable technicians;

and pass IT control functions to the host so you won’t have to worry about maintaining servers and other equipment.

You can self publish your site and use the web host to handle the technical aspects of server management.

The host that you choose will give you the capability to load your own site to the server for updates and revisions to your web page.

Web hosting doesn’t include developing your site (unless they have a special development program) or the development of certain customized programs.

You can develop the programs (website or server side code) or have someone do it for you.

Web hosting is offered in multiple formats based on cost and infrastructure.

The Mystery Behind Domain Names

 

There are approximately 68 million .COM domains registered.

That’s a lot of domain names out on the Internet that are either already taken or just parked in some obsolete spot gathering dust and all kinds of age.

The most common names like loser.com. Jamesbrown.com are already taken by net investors who resell the rights to the names.

Can you imagine someone having www.elvis.com?

He’s just waiting on the highest bidder!

There are 900 possible combinations for two letter sequences.

If you’re looking for “ET” then you just won’t find it!

Even allowing for digits, again every single web address is taken.

Of course, that’s ignoring the fact that .COM registrars now mandate a 3-character minimum length, so it wouldn’t be an option.

Many of the three-letter sequences are taken. 

Adding digits to a domain name creates a number of garbage domain entries.

If you’re dying to acquire great domains and unique domain names, they’ll free up sometimes only to be auctioned off through unique domain name sales.

The longer the domain name that you choose, the more that the possibilities are that it could be available presuming that you’re willing to accept an arbitrary sequence of letters and/or digits.

For example, most organizations have 4 letter acronyms (WQAM.com and AFTA.org so you may have a chance using over 4 letters to get the domain name that you want in acronym style!

Of course many of the registered domains are ever, visited, with a huge percentage having nothing more than a “parked page” (users pay domain registrars to put up ads for themselves on these type of parked pages).

There are so many combinations and back door tricks to domain name cataloging and classification until the possibilities are endless.

The rule is to obtain a domain name that closely resembles who you are about which gives you and identity and brand on the internet.

Using cPanel To Manage Your Host Files

 

CPanel is an easy user-interface site that lets you control your host account environment.

The main peculiarity of this operating system is that it so simple to use that your below average computer user can’t mess it up.

It’s got great features embedded into its panel and some of the features are listed below.

Site Tools

There are such tools available for your use, which are Web Protect (.htaccess editor), Custom error pages, Redirects, Ability to edit MIME types, Ability to edit Apache handlers, Install/Uninstall FrontPage Extensions, Search engine tool submitting and File Manager.

Email

The email program provides you with the possibility to add, remove, and change passwords while managing email accounts.

CPanel is also provided by Webmail for the accounts, Auto responders, Forwarders, Mailing Lists, Spam filtering and some more.

Backup

Backup allows you to create copies of account files and databases.

The backup menu also allows you to download any automatic backups that were downloaded by your CPanel administrator.

Stats

Here are different tools to survey your site popularity and efficiency.

Those are Webalizer web stats, Webalizer FTP stats, Analog stats, AWStats, View latest visitors, View bandwidth usage and View error log modules.

FTP

There is a module that controls FTP accounts (add, remove, change password for its access), Anonymous FTP controls; Ability to change FTP login message and Ability to kill FTP sessions.

Advanced Stuff

You have an ability to add or remove subdomains, Subdomain Redirects and its Stats.

Advanced Tools

You are provided with tools of SSH access tools, Manage GPG keys and Cron jobs.

There are also Pre-Installed CGI Scripts. Those are Interchange Cart, Agora Cart, Bulletin Board, Java Chat, HTML Chat, phpMyChat, CGI Wrapper (for non-suexec installs), Random HTML generator, Advanced Guestbook, Counter Generator, Java Clock Generator, Java Countdown Generator, Secure FormMail clone, CGIEmail, Entropy Search, Entropy Banner. Network Tools are DNS Lookup and Traceroute. Database Management tools includes Managing MySQL databases and phpMyAdmin access.

For beginners, CPanel has a lot of options that are easy to use. CPanel works with most of browsers, such as IE, Opera, Firefox and others.

Optimizing Your Website With SEO

 

Search Engine Optimization is a way to get directories and search engines to give your websites a better indexing position so that customers or anyone who is looking for your websites can see it.

The higher you are in the search engines and directories, the better chance you’ll have doing business on the internet.

Here are simple steps to optimize your websites:

Step 1: Modify your websites – This step includes adding optimized content to all pages in the website.

Step 2: Add tags – Add or make changes to Meta tags, Title tags, H1 tags, H2 tags and alt tags for images, after keywords research.

Step 3: Link building

Website statistics monitoring and conversion tracking

There are offline tools that you can use to optimize your web site and it all involves your URL or your Web Domain name.

You can put your web domain name on business cards, stationery, have a sign on your car, use bumper stickers or have tee shirts and coffee mugs made with the URL.

You should do everything to advertise your websites offline.

This is called offline optimization of your websites.

So web site optimization is both an online and offline deal.

Online, you must use keywords to attract customers and get good search engine rankings and offline, you can advertise your URL to the public to get the to visit your web site.

Picking A Web Hosting Service

 

There are various types of web hosting services and it all depends on what you want to accomplish in building your website for your business.

You should look at the different options which depend on these following factors:

Complexity of your website – You may want to talk to a developer on the complexity of your website, especially when it comes to graphics and database administration.

You may have to consult with an internet specialist on the type of hosting that you need.

Some web hosting services are provided for free but you have to put up with ads that are on the top or bottom of your web site and those ads might not be conducive to the web site that you have developed.

If you are going to get a site with ads, then get a free web hosting package that matches with the online ad that’s already there.

Free hosting also has low bandwidth on the internet because of so many people using the free service instead of the paid service.

Basically, you also get a free web email account with free hosting services.

Then there is hosting that you pay for that you have more control over when you load and host your web site.

You get POP mail access and can create as many emails as you want to which depends on the type of account that you pay for.

Every company has special packages for each and every need.

From personal to business servers, even servers for special kinds of operating systems (UNIX, Windows, Linux and Apple) the choices vary depending on what you want to do.

The prices depend on how much space you need on the server to load your applications so you have to take into consideration what you want to put on the server through your website.