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by: DarrelHawes
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When starting a new website, you need to decide where it will be hosted. This refers to where on the internet the site "lives". A website has to have a place where it resides, just like an individual or family. It may be a house, apartment, condo, or motorhome, but there is one place they call "home" at any given moment.

Websites reside on web servers, which are computers attached to the internet which keep website pages and serve them up when people want to view them. A computer which stores websites is called a web host.

One major decision is whether to use a free or paid web host.

Using of the free services sounds like a good idea, because not only is the price right, many of them feature easy-to-use web creation tools. Though there are good reasons to use them, you should not do so for your primary sites. Besides showing ads, some of the services are known for deleting your sites for no apparent reason, and there is always the risk of the service shutting down. In either case, you lose the hard work put into building the site.

When you set up your paid web host, you have a few options. You can either purchase it yourself or in the event have engaged the services of a web designer, these professionals will often make web space available to you. Some of the criteria in selecting a web host include:

Price: what is it going to cost you to host the site, not only in base service fees but also for any additional services you may require?

Reliability: do they guarantee uptime? One of the best ways to determine reliability is to ask what others' experience has been. The least expensive web host will not be worth it if you cannot count on it being available when your customers or readers need it.

Cpanel: make sure the web host uses cpanel for accessing the site to make changes.

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