Web Hosting For Dummies by Peter Pollock

By Peter Pollock

Host your individual web site or weblog with this distinct guide

If you'd wish to take the plunge from a hosted atmosphere to a self-hosted carrier, this publication is for you. you will be making the flow from informal running a blog to expert running a blog. Or, chances are you'll already be self-hosting, yet need a solid advisor to teach you the way to get extra from your plan. In uncomplicated, easy-to-understand language, this useful booklet breaks down the entire services of internet hosting for self-hosted clients, from establishing new electronic mail debts to backing up and securing your web site, studying server logs, making a choice on a platform to put in, and extra. * Breaks down the features of webhosting for brand new self-hosters, together with informal bloggers who should be entering into specialist running a blog * is helping people who are already self-hosting maximize the companies they're buying * bargains a one-stop, entire source on internet hosting, instead of quite a few chapters, as in lots of running a blog books * Covers establishing and utilizing e mail debts, operating with FTP consumers, backing up and securing websites, utilizing cloud companies, realizing domain names and DNS, utilizing integrated databases, and more

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Let’s say you own a store called Patti Percival’s Cupcakes and you want to start a website. When people visit your site, you want them to associate the site with your store, so you prominently display your store name and logo on the site. That’s your brand identity. When you’re buying the domain name for the site, though, you want to choose a name that is as short as possible and has as little chance for spelling errors as you can manage. In the case of the store used in the example, PattiPercivalsCupcakes.

Nobody likes making insurance payments until something goes wrong, and then they’re really glad to have insurance and wish they had paid a little more to get even better coverage. Website owners face the same problem. Nobody wants to pay for daily backups — or even weekly or monthly ones — and many people choose not to, but then their website goes down and they really regret not having paid for the backup service. Just as I would suggest that any company get insurance, I absolutely recommend that website owners get a good backup system.

9 percent of the time. Let’s break that down for a moment. There are 24 hours in a day, 365 days in a year. That’s a total of 8,760 hours in a year. 9 percent of the time, that means it will be up for around 8,7511⁄2 hours every year, leaving a full eight and a half hours of downtime. A server reboot takes maybe 20 minutes on a shared server. If the hosts are monitoring the servers, they should spot when those servers go down and be able to reboot them within 30 minutes. 9 percent uptime, the server could go down once a month and be fixed by a simple reboot, which still leaves more than four hours of downtime for some other event.

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