A Stepwise Guide to Hosting a Website

A Stepwise Guide to Hosting a Website

Hosting a website takes time. You may be lead to believe that it can happen overnight but it doesn’t work that way. You need to take the necessary steps before you can go live with a website or even if you are hosting your emails.

• The first step is domain registration. You need your own address in the virtual world. You can buy a domain directly from resellers. You hire a hosting company which will offer you a complete solution including domain registration. Once you have the domain or as you procure it, you should work on the website. A domain isn’t just for hosting a website but also for your emails and other facilities such as an FTP site.

• The process of website hosting has many steps. With the domain registered, you know where you would put up your website but you need to create the website. You can hire a hosting company before you register a domain as there are plans where you can get your domain registered for free. The price of the domain will be waived off when agree to pay a monthly hosting fee. You should choose a hosting plan as you develop your website to have enough bandwidth and storage for the content you would put up. The storage space of a web hosting plan will determine how heavy a website you can have, how much stuff you can store in the cloud and what kind of space you would get for your emails, files and every digitized item for your business. Bandwidth will determine how much space your website would enjoy at the time of being accessed by visitors or your target audience. A larger bandwidth will make it easier for more people to access the website at the same time. Else, the website will take a longer time to load.

• You should consider hiring a website developer or designer. Your hosting company may double up as your website designer. This works well for many companies as professionals working as a team looking after different aspects of website design, hosting and website management will be responsible for your entire online presence. They cannot pass the buck as the buck stops with one team or another in the same company.

• Once you have laid the groundwork for website hosting and design, work on email hosting, optimization of your website, special features that your website needs and other complementing elements, which could be anything from ad credits to social media integration, blogs to ecommerce and more.