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Congratulations! Now that you've decided on and registered a domain name, you need to
choose a service to host your web pages. The web host provides you with space for your
eb pages, tools to create the web pages, and support if you run into problems.
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External Webhosting
Here are some factors you will want to consider in choosing a web host:
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- Tools: Do they provide beginner friendly web design tools, or do you need to provide your
own web design tools or service. If they do provide tools, are they flexible enough to meet your needs?
Do they assume knowledge of HTML?
- Support: Are they available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week? Are they available by phone, or only by email?
- Commitment: How long is the subscription you are signing up for - can you cancel at any time?
- Storage: How much space do you receive for your site?
- Email: Does the web hosting include email (POP3) accounts, or are those seperate
- Reliability: Do they make any guarantees about "uptime" - the percentage of
time per month your site will be available to customers?
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Be your own Webhost
If you do not want to use a service provider, you can also be your own webhost. All you need is to
have a webserver, e.g. at apache-tomcat is a free product. Additionally, your server needs to be online
all the time in order that your website is published on the internet.
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Conclusion
Most people will choose standard web hosting, but if you plan to have a lot of traffic or do not
want to share a server, you can choose "dedicated web hosting" which gives you your own dedicated
server machine that the Web Hosting company manages for you.
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