How to Host Your Domain
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How to Host Your Domain
In order to establish an online presence you will need to first register a domain
name and then set up a hosting and FTP account so that you can upload
webpages, files, download items and effectively manage your entire online
business.
Hosting providers, such as www.HostGator.com, provide you with web space
that will house your websites, and make it easy to build your marketing
campaigns, as well as create squeeze and landing pages to capture leads and
begin promoting your product. You can even set up a fully loaded blog with a
basic Host Gator account!
Once you have set up a hosting account, you will use a FTP program (File
Transfer Protocol) to upload, download and manage your files, including your
index page and any graphics or images used on your website.
In other words, your hosting account stores your webpages and files and FTP is
the tool you use to update these pages, upload or download new files, and
manage all items stored on your hosting account.
While many hosts including Host Gator give you the option of managing files
directly from within your cPanel, using an FTP program simplifies the process,
and gets the job done much faster, so itʼs important that you learn how to set up
and use a FTP program in connection with your hosting account.
To begin, letʼs go through the process of setting up a simple hosting account!
Creating Your Hosting Account
HostGator offers several hosting packages ranging from basic plans to full
featured dedicated servers. When you visit their website, you will see the
following categories available, all with individual hosting plans.
Web Hosting
Reseller Hosting
Dedicated Servers
The plans featured within the "Web Hosting" category are all basic hosting
plans, with many of them offering you the opportunity to host unlimited subdomains
as well.
With "Reseller Hosting" accounts, you are able to host an unlimited number of
domains and sub-domains on your hosting account, and can also choose to
SELL hosting to others in the future.
And finally when your website has begun to generate a consistent flood of traffic
and user activity, you can consider upgrading your plan to a dedicated server.
When just starting out however, all you really need is a basic hosting account.
You can upgrade instantly just by contacting the HostGator support team should
you wish to enhance or modify your website hosting plan in the future.
Letʼs set up your basic hosting package: