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Building a Web Site
You can build a very basic web site with a simple word processing program such as Microsoft Word. Then after you've built your web site, you'll need to find a way to publish it if you intend for it to be accessible on the World Wide Web. For this you'll turn to a web hosting company.
A web host will provide you with the disk space, services,and tools you'll need when creating a website on the Internet. While occasional technical problems are inevitable, competent web hosting companies will ensure your site is up and running 24 hours a day, 7 days a week so that anyone, anywhere in the world, can find your web site at any time of the day.
Many Hosting Choices
There are literally tens of thousands of web hosting companies to choose from so finding one of the very best web hosting companies can be challenging.
Prices range from free to hundreds of dollars a year for personal web hosting and small business web hosting all the way up to hundreds of dollars per month for Ecommerce web hosting for large online businesses.
The best web hosting companies offer a wide variety of web hosting services all of which can be confusing if you're new to web site hosting.
What You Need to Know
Our nine-part Introduction to Web Hosting will help you make sense of all the available information and give you the confidence to find, evaluate, and select one of the best web hosting companies to host your site.
1 - Free Web Hosting Or Paid? - Learn the differences and how to make the right choice
2 - What Is A Web Server? - And why does it matter to you?
3 - Domain Name Registration - How and where to do it
4 - Got Dot? - Great domain names are still out there
5 - Dedicated Web Hosting - Do you really need it?
6 - Connect to your Host Server - Your domain name is registered. Now what?
7 - Publish Your Web Site - Getting it onto the Web
8 - FTP Settings - A few minor technicalities
9 - Free Web Templates - And other user-friendly web authoring tools
