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What is Web Hosting?2.
What is virtual hosting?3.
What is a Domain Name?4.
How do I register a domain name?5.
What exactly is space and bandwidth/data transfer?6.
How do I track how many hits my Web site gets?7.
What is MySQL, MS SQL, etc?8.
What is Domain Parking?9.
What are subdomains?10.
How do I upload my site online?
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What is Web Hosting?Web hosting is the act of renting space and bandwidth through a company so that you may publish your web site online. You can either opt for free hosting that is usually supported with banners and pop ups, or may opt to get paid web hosting, which gives you complete control over your site contents.
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What is virtual hosting?Also known as shared hosting, this form of web hosting should suffice for most everyone.
Virtual hosting simple refers to the fact that your site is on one server, and that this server hosts mulitple sites. You are virtually shared - your site will not be the only one on this specific server.
Very few sites would actually need the power of a dedicated server, so this option provides to be a reliable and cheap solution.
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What is a Domain Name?A domain name is a word along with a TLD that uniquely identifies your website.
Think of a domain name as a civic number in the front of your house or appartment.
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How do I register a domain name?Registering a domain name is very easy.
First you will have to make sure that the domain you want is available - just go to our home page to do a search.
Afterwards, you simply need to visit a registration site such as godaddy.com and then register it and point the DNS servers to ns1.leegraphics.com and ns2.leegraphics.com
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What exactly is space and bandwidth/data transfer?Diskspace is the size your website can be. Every single letter on your website has to be stored somewhere on your web host's server. Each letter is one byte, and a megabyte is roughly one million bytes. HTML pages are usually very small, but it is the extra images, scripts, and even databases that can take up large amounts of disk space.
Bandwidth/Transfer is the amount of data the server will allow your site to send in a month. Transfer is usually measured in gigabytes - billions of bytes. Once you go over your monthly limit, a host may either shut your site down for the remainder of the month or it can charge you 'overage.' This overcharge is usually about $2.00-$5.00 per extra gigabyte of transfer.
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How do I track how many hits my Web site gets?There are a few things that need to be cleared in terms of terminology:
* Hits - this simply refers to the number of 'elements' loaded on your site. If one page has five images in it, viewing that page once adds 6 hits (one page + five images).
* Impressions - the number of times all the pages on your site are seen (also simply called pageviews). Impressions are sometimes referred to as 'hits' which can cause confusion
* Uniques - the number of people that visited your site
So to clarify, if I visit your website, look at two pages, and each page has 5 images on it, then your stats increase by one unique, two page views, and 12 hits.
Tracking on your site can be either done server-side or remotely. With server-side statistics, log files are used to generate visitor information. This is usually much more accurate than remotely hosted solutions. In such cases, you usually have to add some javascript to your site. This javascript is then used to track visitor data.
If your host provides it (and many do), server-side statistics are a good solution. Otherwise, companies like Site Meter can be used to remotely track your visitors.
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What is MySQL, MS SQL, etc?MySQL and MS SQL are database systems. Depending on what your host provides, you can use a database to organize your data.
To help you out, we have lists on hosts that provide MySQL and hosts that provide MS SQL.
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What is Domain Parking?Domain parking lets you buy a domain and then have a 'coming soon' page on it. This is not needed - if a domain is not parked it will simply be iinaccessible to anyone.
Most domain registrars provide this by default.
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What are subdomains?Consider subdomains as an extension of your domain. For example, your site is www.example.com. A subdomain would be test.example.com, and another would be webhosting.example.com. Subdomains are usually treated as separate sites from the main domain site.
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How do I upload my site online?Uploading your site can be done in many ways, but the most popular is FTP.
When your hosting account was created, you should have been provided with an FTP account. Using software such as CuteFTP or WS_FTP, you can log into your host. Then, using the program like a normal windows program, you can drag and drop files onto your web host. These files become live online instantaneously.
There are other ways to upload your site such as using SSH or uploading files through your browser
