Web
Site Hosting and Registration
Selecting
the right hosting company can make or break your new Internet
Business
It
is important that your site is up and running 24 hours a week.
Some hosting companys have poor quality server that may cause
your site to be offline occasionally. This not only can cause
you to lose potential customers but can also get you unlisted
with some search engines. It is important that you look into
what other people say about your choice of host companys.
Registration
Most reliable hosting companys offer domain name
registration as part of the hosting packages. Prices vary greatly
across the internet, and the best service does not necessarily
cost more.
The
hosting service of our choice at American TradUR is Ipowerweb
There recent addition is ipage
which is an easy to use service with web site building tutorials.
We have not tried the service but knowing the service we have
receive from them as a hosting company there is no doubt that
it is top of the line with everything you could need.
- Choose
from 100's of professional designs
- Change
design, content, and pictures anytime
- No
design or programming experience required
- Easy
to use management interface
- Get
Your Own Domain (yourname.com)
- FREE
email addresses (name@yourdomain.com)
- Web
based email interface
- E-Commerce
Shopping Cart
- Website
and Bandwidth Statistic
- Market
your product and service on the Internet
- 24/7
Customer Phone and E-Mail Support
Support
There
will be occasions throughout the life of your business that
you will need some questions answered. Hopefully if you choose
the right host it will not be a problem from their end. Make
sure that the host provides you with 24/7 support service. Call
them up and see how easy it is to talk with a live person. If
you call a company and get put onto a computer answering service
for 30 minutes then you should avoid using them.
Server
Space
An
average web page is 25k to 50k in file size. Photos and graphics
need for the pages will range in file size from 1k to 25k. This
means that if you have a 10 to 15 page website with 2 to 5 graphics
on each page, will require 120K to about 3MB. If you are going
to host a site like we have at http://t456.com/collectibles
with more than 3,000 items with picture and enlargements you
will need around 150meg. Ipowerweb
hosting offers 800 meg with their basic packages.
More than most companies could ever use.
Bandwidth
This
is the amount of traffic allowed to your site at one time. Each
person viewing your site requires communication with you host
server. Most hosting companies put some limits on this to prevent
overloading their capabilities to serve their customers.
Secure
Server
You
will nee to this if you are going to do online credit card processing.
If you like the big names you could not go wrong if you used
Yahoo. The have special packages set up just for small business
that includes credit card processing.
Reliable
business hosting from Yahoo! Web Hosting. Domain name included.
FTP
Accounts
Most
hosts now have built in software that will allow you to upload
files to your site. But if you will be doing a lot of upload
you will need FTP "File Transfer Protocol" access.
This will allow you to view your site like any other folder
on your computer. If you are connected via FTP you can just
move files from your computer directly onto the site.
POP
E-mail Accounts
With
a business you are going to need more than one e-mail account.
We presently use 7 major accounts here at American TradUR Company
to serve our different customers need. We use one just to handle
purchases, customer correspondence, personal account, web design
and another for submitting our site to search engines and so
on.
Server
Installed Programs
If
you will be needing a shopping cart, chat rooms, forums and
other interactive software for your site it is important to
see what your host already has setup. All of this and much comes
with your site at Ipowerweb. With a few clicks of your mouse
you can have them active and it is as simple as adding them
to your site navigation.
CGI-bin
access
If
you want to run your own programs on your website from the server,
you must have CGI access. Your CGI capabilities should allow
you to read, write and execute programs and script on the server.
Reliable,
affordable web hosting from Yahoo!
Internet Business How To Start Guide Book is written
to help anyone wishing to get started the right way. It includes all
of the information it took to make American TradUR Company a successful
and profitable online business. The programs and product resources listed
are the same ones we are using right now to make money on the Internet
and work at home.
