How to Host Your Own Website Tutorial
- 1). Decide on a hosting provider. The cheap hosting offered by most companies is called shared hosting. Your website is kept on a single server with many other websites. This gives you less control but is enough for a personal or low traffic website. Consider how much disk space you need and whether you have any special requirements, such as a special database package. Hosting is typically charged on a yearly basis.
- 2). Purchase a domain name. It is easier to buy the domain through the hosting provider than elsewhere. If you choose not to do so, make sure to have the hosting purchased first because you will need name server information to forward the domain to your hosting provider. Domains can eventually expire and the company you register the domain name with will offer to renew it automatically or at least send you notification of the expiration date.
- 3). Design and upload your website. You have innumerable options to create the site, including paying someone to build it for you, coding it all by hand with HTML or using coding frameworks to integrate your site with information from a database.
