Setting up a website hosting account

When you make a website, it is usually hosted on somebody’s servers.

You can host a site on your own server if you want to, but it’s not an option for novices.

There’s a full explanation of what’s involved in website hosting at Wikipedia.

The price of setting up a web hosting account varies, depending on what you want to offer on your website and whether or not you’re prepared to accept ads on your site over which you have no control.

Companies offering free website hosting usually insist on placing ads on your site, but more recently a great new ad-free service called 110MB.com has been set up offering genuine free hosting without ads, plus loads of extras
at very trivial prices.

I use this service to host a couple of my poorer performing websites … no point paying for these is they don’t bring in the required level of income!

Setting up a hosting service is not a hugely complicated business, but before deciding what to go for, you should decide what you can afford and the sort of services you require … or just go for the free service offered by 110MB.com.

Make your decision based on price and flexibility of service … you might want something basic now, but as you get more experienced, you’ll probably want to try something much more ambitious.

What questions does this raise for you?