The Basics of Computer Hosting
Web hosting can be a bit overwhelming for beginners. Most people think that you have to hire an expensive company to handle their cheap web hosting services. However, the simple truth is that if you have an internet connection and a computer, you can easily handle your own web site with very few problems. Any good website has three main ingredients: the actual website pages, the domain name (which if you have a business, works best with your own domain, not some existing inexpensive domain), and a place for your site to reside (a web server – basically a computer attached permanently to the internet).
Your very first challenge is, obviously, to design your website pages. There are a few ways you can do this. You could hire someone else to design them for you. In the end, though, that can get rather expensive. You could try to design them yourself using HTML, which doesn't take long to learn, but for those who are not so technically savvy, this can be a difficult process that may simply be not worth the hassle. One of the best ways to design your website pages if you aren’t as good with computers is to choose a web hosting company that offers you templates, or web page design software built in to the system. This way you just fill in the very basic details – company name, description, contact details, etc, and the software creates the website for you. Many web hosting companies will do this, such as [web host name], which actually goes the extra step by offering you a free hour of web programming every month – all you need to do is call them and tell them exactly what you need, and if it takes an hour or less, they'll do it for free. That's like having a hundred pounds worth of discounted web design every month – not a bad deal at all