Pedro Garcia asked:




First, let me clarify something. There are many reasons why you would want to have your website professionally hosted. However, people in certain situations are better off hosting their site themselves. For example, if you are starting a new business or playing with an idea that you are not sure will work, you might not want to pay a hosting company to host your site, at first. Hosting the site yourself will allow you to save money that you can use to grow your business. Once your business starts growing and your site starts getting a lot of visitors, then you will find it necessary to pay a web hosting company to host it for you, but until then, you need to test the waters.

If you have a computer and a high speed internet connection (DSL/Cable) you can host your own website. You will need to keep your computer on and online 24/7, which should be no big deal. Besides this, you need only to follow the 7 steps I describe below, to make your website available to users on the internet:

1) Install a web server: Most Windows operating systems either come with a web server, or one can be downloaded for free depending on the version of Windows. The web server is the program that runs in the background on your computer listening to requests from people on the internet. It’s the software that finds your pages in your computer and sends them to the users requesting it.

2) Configure the web server: In this step you simply tell your web server where to find your website that is sitting somewhere in your computer.

3) Get a domain name: In this step you decide on the name that you want for your site and buy it from a provider. Domain names are cheap and you pay the fee only once a year.

4) Configure DNS: This is where you associate your website name with the IP address of your computer so users are transferred to your computer when typing the name of your website.

5) Configure your router: Your router needs to know about the computer that has the web page so it knows where to forward users to.

6) Dynamic IP solution: Most people have a dynamic IP address given to them by their ISP. This means the IP address of your computer might change. This is a problem because DNS needs to know the IP address of the computer that people need to be forwarded to when typing a domain name. There is a way to solve this problem without having to pay your ISP more money for a static IP. There are applications that will automatically update DNS when your IP changes.

7) Securing your server: The last step is to make sure your computer is protected from malicious programs on the internet by having the necessary software installed and configured.

Puripong Koomsin asked:




Hosting your web site or web page involves registering it for a server. This had to be done with the help of hardware. You actually needed to go and host your website on a server. The problem with this type of server hosting is that you had it consumes a lot of time and it as soon as your members start growing, the load on the server increases and once the number of members crosses a tolerance point, thee server is not sufficiently strong to carry that load and starts giving trouble to your members and users. This might make your customers angry and leave them unsatisfied eventually making you lose them. To avoid this disaster from happening, many companies have taken aid of cloud hosting which offers you to add as many servers as you require and thus saving you from loosing your customers. There are many advantages of cloud hosting due to which it is gaining popularity among companies but the important ones are,

Scalability: with the help of cloud hosting, you can scale up at the click of one button. If the number of members on you web site is increasing day by day and you need to add more servers, you can do this sitting at home all from your computer rather than the normal hosting techniques. Also, if the number of members takes a dip and you need to cut down on servers, why to pay extravagantly for hosting on servers which you do not need it? You can unplug these servers from your computer if you do not need them anymore.

Instant: this kind of hosting is instant, at the click of your mouse. You can plug in new servers or unplug old servers easily from your computer itself. Hardware is not involved in operating cloud hosting and hence you don’t need to involve or worry about hardware.

Time and money saver: as you can unplug servers whenever not in need of them, cloud hosting saves your time. Also, servers cost extravagantly for hosting, which is saved when you unplug a server instantly when it is not in use. Cloud hosting helps you maintain your members and customers, which eventually gets you money.

Due to these impeccable advantages of cloud hosting, it is fast gaining popularity among companies today. Cloud hosting is becoming a trend not just for the bigger companies but also for the smaller companies due to the easy features that it offers and the less amount of money that it involves as compared to normal hosting.

Cloud hosting trends and other such related trends currently on in the world of websites can be found on the website if you look around.