Creating a website is becoming essential nowadays and it is for creating an online asset. You need to create a website for the following reasons.
1 Promote your business, products, and yourself.
2 Share your knowledge and earn money(blogging).
3 Doing online business(a showcase your business).
4 Share your creation arts, stories, poems...
5 Creating an eCommerce store.
6 Just for online presence (single page website).
Whatever the cause may be for creating a website the final goal is to get more and more viewers to turn them into your customers and make money online.
For any creation or building project, you need certain materials.
To create a website you need
1 Hosting
2 Domain
3 WordPress (CMS)
For a non-technical person or a common man, it's difficult to understand technical terminology.
Hence I will try to explain in common man language.
WHAT IS HOSTING?
Hosting is to receive & entertain others at a place, similarly, a hosting service provider hosts space to receive, and store all files(codes, images, script...) of any website and connects the website to other users to view on the internet all over the world.
It's like a shopping mall providing space for multiple stores to operate their business within.
The hosting service provider has the server(special computers having software to host a website), connectivity 24/7, technical services & other additional services like a 24/7 support system, email accounts, website building tools(WordPress), and FTP access...
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To own a server and expertise is expensive for an individual or an organization, hence the website hosting company provide the required infrastructure to operate a website.
To identify every website a name is given as a Domain name.
Many hosting sites provide free domain names along with hosting plans although you can purchase a domain name of your choice from a site like Godaddy or from a marketplace like Sedo.
Whenever you search for hosting sites you will find ads for many hosting sites & making it difficult for you to decide which plan you should take, to help you in making a decision you should know the types of web hosting & which are suitable for your website.
Types of Hosting
Types of hosting are mainly due to the capacity to host a site with the amount of data & traffic on the site.
It decides the loading time of a website which is also one of the factors for ranking a website hence you should select a hosting site wisely keeping in mind the growth of traffic on your website.
Shared Hosting
Hosting is shared by many numbers of websites or in other words a hosting service site that provides services to hundreds or thousands of websites on the same server, it's like getting a room on rent and sharing with other people in the same room.
This type of hosting is suitable for a website that has less traffic & a small amount of data.
It's economical as the total price is been shared among thousands of website owners.
For creating a Blog site or a business website for a small business shared hosting is been recommended.
The price may vary from $1 to $10/ month for different hosting companies.
Miles Web provides hosting at less than $1 /mo with a lifetime free Domain.
You can create your website with BigRock for just Rs 99/- per month
Reseller Hosting
You can build your own hosting business by becoming a reseller host along with hosting your own website.
You can sell the products under your own brand, and your own plans & by customizing your price
VPS Hosting
A VPS (Virtual Private Server) hosting is having multiple virtual servers in one physical server, everyone having a VPS hosting can operate it server privately isolated from other VPS.
VPS hosting is perfect for a website with high traffic like an online store, the price is a little bit more as compared to shared hosting due to the increased resources, power & total control on the server.
Dedicated web server
A website that has its own server without sharing with other websites is known as a dedicated web server. It's essential for a large website like any social media site with millions of active users at the same time.
A dedicated server makes the site load fast & total control of infrastructure reduces the risk of losing business.
Cloud-based Web Hosting
Any program that runs on the internet is said to be cloud-based, a cloud product is software as a service stored online that can be accessed remotely.
A cloud server is a virtual server instead of a physical server running online as a cloud computing platform.
Cloud computing offers more security for the data as compared to a local server or a physical server.
To know more about Why & how to make a website read
FINAL THOUGHT
When I started my first website (which I had never thought about in my life) it seemed to be very difficult and I thought in my mind that I was wasting my time but recently during the lockdown, I felt that I had taken the right decision at the right time since I'm gaining from my website from last few years.
Hence my advice is don't delay, decide & start today.
The future is of online services or of those who have an online presence through their website.
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