Saturday, May 23, 2009
Domain And Hosting An Introduction
Domain and Hosting 101
I’m not gonna waste ur time with rhetoric, I’m just gonna tell you what you need to know about how to make money online, and how to go about doing it. This articles is for absolute beginners. If your not one of them, I suggest that you skim through it and move on.
I will cover the following two topics : Hosting and Domain Names.
A domain name is simply put the main website address. For example, complete address of the page your viewing is: http://makemoneyonlineprofessor.blogpsot.com/Domain-and-hosting-an-introduction.html.
Breaking it up:
Http:// - HyperText Transfer Protocol. – Meaning, mumbo jumbo about communication protocols and stuff that can make our head spin. Simply put : who cares.
www. – Stands for the World Wide Web
Blogger – This is the domain name, registered at a price of $8.85 per year. All .com domain names are registered for about that price. Domain names are Internet Real Estate. The domain name porn.com for example sold for about $9 500 000 US. Read my article about Internet Real Estate – The Domain Game. For now, all you need to know is that to registering a domain is not the same as buying a domain. If you find a domain name that is available, you can register it at hosting websites or at WebNowServices.com
As I said, most places register the domain name for about $8.95 a year, and most will throw it in for free when you buy a yearly hosting plan. Buying a domain name, is the transfer the domain name from someone who already owns it. For example, if you want the domain name registered to me, we can negotiate a price, and I can transfer ownership. Obviously, shorter, popular, easy to remember names are EXPENSIVE.
MakeMoneyOnlineProfessor - is what is called a sub-domain. If you own a top level domain, most hosting plans will let you have an unlimited number of subdomains for free.
.com – This extension is describes what kind of website you have. The most popular being the .com, of course. You can register you domain under numerous extensions. Here is a list of the popular ones.
.com – commercial business
.mil – U.S. military or affiliated agency
.edu – Educational institution
.net – large network (or small)
.gov – Governmental agency
.org – nonprofit agency
.biz – business (Don’t suggest you ever use this)
.coop – nonprofit organizations
.info - any website ;Cheap domains, you can get them at a price of .99 cents a year. Usually a .info domain is used to point at other website. Read my article Internet Real Estate – The Domain Game, for neat tricks to utilize this extension.
.museum – self explanatory
.pro – professional (e.g. doctors, lawyers, etc)
.name – personal website (Don’t suggest you use this unless you are really really famous)
.aero – For airlines
There are also upper lever domains specific to each country, for example:
.ca – Canadian
.us – United States
.au – Australian
.fr – France
You get the idea!
Out of all the ones listed I only suggest using .com (the best), country oriented (i.e. .us, .ca etc), .net and .info! I would think twice about using any other extension.
Hosting
On top of a domain, you need what is called a hosting plan. Simply put, you need to store the webpage files on a computer somewhere so people can access them. You can’t use your computer at home (technicalities I wont go into). You need those files on what is called a “server”. Hosting can be free or it can run up to thousands of dollars a year. Most people will end up paying about $10 to $15 a month.
Free Hosting : Be very careful when you use free hosting services Only use free hosting for blogs. And don’t host a blog unless you’re planning to post daily. Free hosting accounts limit what you can do with your website. You will have little database activity, and almost no commerce tools.
Pros: Free; easy to learn (you can learn to setup up a blog in about 10 minutes)
Cons: very limited on what you can do with a blog by means of interacting with visitors and ecommerce solutions.
Recommended sites for free blog hosting: Blogspot (Owned by Google), and WordPress.
Note : if you are really cheap and do not want to spend 10 bucks a month on a domain name, you can get a top lever domain name for free. So for example if you had the domain name etcetcetc.com you can get a free etcetcetc.blogspot.com domain name, but you can kiss marketing the name goodbye. Don’t be cheap, pay the 8.95 a year. Unless ofcourse you are blogging, in that point, use a blogger service. This is for SEO reasons that are beyond the scope of this article.
Cheap Hosting:
You need to asses what functionality your website will have before you decide on a hosting plan. Almost all hosting plans will allow you to set up commerce on your website. I guess the only thing you really need to asses is if you need the host service to be able to handle special extensions such as Cold Fusion. Another point you need to keep in mind before choosing a hosting plan is how many websites you plan on hosting. Regardless of what your needs are, it is probably a good idea to visit Godaddy.com. They are cheap, and you can set up as many websites as you want.
I’m not gonna waste ur time with rhetoric, I’m just gonna tell you what you need to know about how to make money online, and how to go about doing it. This articles is for absolute beginners. If your not one of them, I suggest that you skim through it and move on.
I will cover the following two topics : Hosting and Domain Names.
A domain name is simply put the main website address. For example, complete address of the page your viewing is: http://makemoneyonlineprofessor.blogpsot.com/Domain-and-hosting-an-introduction.html.
Breaking it up:
Http:// - HyperText Transfer Protocol. – Meaning, mumbo jumbo about communication protocols and stuff that can make our head spin. Simply put : who cares.
www. – Stands for the World Wide Web
Blogger – This is the domain name, registered at a price of $8.85 per year. All .com domain names are registered for about that price. Domain names are Internet Real Estate. The domain name porn.com for example sold for about $9 500 000 US. Read my article about Internet Real Estate – The Domain Game. For now, all you need to know is that to registering a domain is not the same as buying a domain. If you find a domain name that is available, you can register it at hosting websites or at WebNowServices.com
As I said, most places register the domain name for about $8.95 a year, and most will throw it in for free when you buy a yearly hosting plan. Buying a domain name, is the transfer the domain name from someone who already owns it. For example, if you want the domain name registered to me, we can negotiate a price, and I can transfer ownership. Obviously, shorter, popular, easy to remember names are EXPENSIVE.
MakeMoneyOnlineProfessor - is what is called a sub-domain. If you own a top level domain, most hosting plans will let you have an unlimited number of subdomains for free.
.com – This extension is describes what kind of website you have. The most popular being the .com, of course. You can register you domain under numerous extensions. Here is a list of the popular ones.
.com – commercial business
.mil – U.S. military or affiliated agency
.edu – Educational institution
.net – large network (or small)
.gov – Governmental agency
.org – nonprofit agency
.biz – business (Don’t suggest you ever use this)
.coop – nonprofit organizations
.info - any website ;Cheap domains, you can get them at a price of .99 cents a year. Usually a .info domain is used to point at other website. Read my article Internet Real Estate – The Domain Game, for neat tricks to utilize this extension.
.museum – self explanatory
.pro – professional (e.g. doctors, lawyers, etc)
.name – personal website (Don’t suggest you use this unless you are really really famous)
.aero – For airlines
There are also upper lever domains specific to each country, for example:
.ca – Canadian
.us – United States
.au – Australian
.fr – France
You get the idea!
Out of all the ones listed I only suggest using .com (the best), country oriented (i.e. .us, .ca etc), .net and .info! I would think twice about using any other extension.
Hosting
On top of a domain, you need what is called a hosting plan. Simply put, you need to store the webpage files on a computer somewhere so people can access them. You can’t use your computer at home (technicalities I wont go into). You need those files on what is called a “server”. Hosting can be free or it can run up to thousands of dollars a year. Most people will end up paying about $10 to $15 a month.
Free Hosting : Be very careful when you use free hosting services Only use free hosting for blogs. And don’t host a blog unless you’re planning to post daily. Free hosting accounts limit what you can do with your website. You will have little database activity, and almost no commerce tools.
Pros: Free; easy to learn (you can learn to setup up a blog in about 10 minutes)
Cons: very limited on what you can do with a blog by means of interacting with visitors and ecommerce solutions.
Recommended sites for free blog hosting: Blogspot (Owned by Google), and WordPress.
Note : if you are really cheap and do not want to spend 10 bucks a month on a domain name, you can get a top lever domain name for free. So for example if you had the domain name etcetcetc.com you can get a free etcetcetc.blogspot.com domain name, but you can kiss marketing the name goodbye. Don’t be cheap, pay the 8.95 a year. Unless ofcourse you are blogging, in that point, use a blogger service. This is for SEO reasons that are beyond the scope of this article.
Cheap Hosting:
You need to asses what functionality your website will have before you decide on a hosting plan. Almost all hosting plans will allow you to set up commerce on your website. I guess the only thing you really need to asses is if you need the host service to be able to handle special extensions such as Cold Fusion. Another point you need to keep in mind before choosing a hosting plan is how many websites you plan on hosting. Regardless of what your needs are, it is probably a good idea to visit Godaddy.com. They are cheap, and you can set up as many websites as you want.
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