Domain Hosting is synonymous with web hosting and is the service by which a
company sets up a computer named a “server” to store and serve information to
the Internet. The domain hosting company also typically offers e-mail to go
along with the domain hosting account. This allows a domain name holder to
receive e-mail using their domain name (e.g., yourname@domain.com).
There are a lot of domain hosting companies with products and pricing that vary
widely. Be careful that the domain hosting company you choose has been around
for awhile as these companies come and go regularly. We recommend eHost Domains
as they have good pricing and have been a stable company to work with.
You will either need to use a template, have a professional design and code it,
or learn HTML or some other code in order to create your website. HTML is a
fairly simple computer language but can be daunting to someone not familiar with
it. We recommend using a template, buying an Internet for Dummies book on how to
build a web site or using a professional that can show you some references or
actual web sites they have built.
We like That Works Web Design.
Domain name registrants point their DNS to a domain hosting company and the
domain hosting company attaches the specified domain name to the code the user
then uploaded to their web site, usually by FTP (File Transfer Protocol). The
domain hosting company allows users on the Internet to access their server and
view the web site.
Domain hosting companies usually offer several levels of service. Small web
sites with not a lot of traffic don’t use up much space on the server and not a
lot of bandwidth because not many people are looking at the web site. A small
domain hosting account is therefore accordingly not very expensive.
A large website that receives a lot of traffic such as Google.com takes up a lot
of server space (in fact most likely several hundred servers in their entirety)
and a lot of bandwidth since a lot of people are looking at their web site.
Larger websites also often demand a very fast connection time which brings about
additional costs. A large domain hosting account is therefore accordingly very
expensive.
There are a lot of add on services that a domain hosting company can offer.
Minimally they may offer a counter which tells how many people have visited a
certain page on your web site. The counter can also become a large web
statistical product with tells you where on the Internet visitors came from,
what pages they viewed on your site and how long they stayed on each. You can
also look at how may error pages (pages people attempted to view but could not
find) on your site.
