Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Website Hosting

A host is a server that provides a home for your website on the World Wide Web. Just as your computer contains all your files, so a host contains all the files needed to run your website. With a host, you can simply upload everything you need to the server and your users can then connect there to see your site. It lets the site run faster and allows it to have all the security and extras it needs.

Selecting a host is the first important step towards building your Internet Business.

Your choice of server will depend on how much money you have available at the beginning and how much you plan to grow in the future. In my opinion, for commercial sites, free hosting is a waste of time. your users are going to get blasted with annoying pop-ups every time they surf to your page, it's going to be impossible to get a decent position in a search engine and you don't even get a real business URL.

There are many website hosting services offer a stats package that you can study. If you're not sure where this is, call up website hosting service and ask them. Statistics are a vital part of tracking your marketing progress. If you don't have access to website statistics get a package that can help you.

A good website hosting service would offer traffic logs that provide an invaluable insight into the traffic being referred to a website from various sources such as search engines, directories and other links.

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