What are the advantages of web hosting?

Main advantage is you could publish your own webpages and you will stand out from ordinary people.





I would suggest following webhosting , they are quite good.





Hostmonster http://www.anurl.com/?PQMRY





They offer hosting of "unlimited domains" and you will get massive webspace of 200000 MB (200 GB ). They only charge $5.95/month and they offer "a free Domain Name" and installing service called "Fantastico". By using Fantastico, you could create own forum, photo gallery, shopping cart (e-commerce),your own auction site and your own blogs within few seconds. They also offer "Free Website Builder" as well.


Visit the site to check details.





Hostmonster http://www.anurl.com/?PQMRY





Domains


Following site is quite good to register domains as price is reasonable with free privacy. Some charge about $5/ year just for free privacy.





IPOWER http://www.anurl.com/?TXIBE
What are the advantages of web hosting?
ITS THE MAIN ENTRY PAGE OF THE WEBSITE WHEN YOU LOG ONTO THE INTERNET I THINK
What are the advantages of web hosting?
you can run your own website if you have got a domain registered. [e.g www.yahoo.com] yahoo is a domain name.





You can put your sutff (pictures, mvies, files) into your account using ftp (file transfer protocol) and can access anywhere in the world , connecting to the internet.





It depends how much space the hosting compnay is providing.
Reply:You need to put your pages on the net with your domain name. I have just done this myslef and used





http://www.freevirtualservers.com/





Their customer services are fantastic, thye helped me straight away with problems.
Reply:I assume you mean using a web hosting service rather than running your website off your own computer.





Basically a hosting service does a lot of things which are a pain or expensive to do at home or in a small business.





To host a website you need a high speed connection to your computer, both of which are running 24/7. You have to be running web server software (Apache or IIS). You have to get your domain registered so that the rest of the world can find your website. You should have regular backups in case of problems, as well as backup hardware so that if the server goes down you can get the site up and running again in a hurry.





And you have to know how to run and maintain all this.





Hosting services tend to have T-1 lines, high-speed servers, regular backups, and the tech savvy to keep it all going. The better ones also have good customer support available so you can keep your website up-to-date and working how you want it. They also often provide various e-commerce software if you want to sell stuff off your website, saving you a lot of the hassle of setting up merchant accounts for handling credit cards and so on.