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Web hosting beginners guide

What is web hosting?
A web page is a file, just like your word processing documents. Just as your word processing documents require your computer to store them, all web pages require a computer to store them. The difference is that web pages are generally intended to be seen by the general public. To enable this, the computer on which they must be stored must be of a much higher specification than your desktop PC, and must be connected to the Internet through a very powerful link. A computer on which web pages are stored is called a web server. Collectively a bunch of web pages is a web site, and collectively all the web pages in the world form the World Wide Web (WWW). The job of making web sites and web pages available to many users is called web hosting. We sometimes like to call the product we offer web space, because we are selling "space" on the Internet for you to host your web site. Web space is measured in megabytes, in exactly the same way as the space on your desktop PC is measured.

Why do I need web hosting?
It is technically possible to connect your desktop PC to the Internet and have it serve pages. But it is not practical since generally a home-based Internet connection is not powerful enough to serve many users at the same time. Also you need to have a static IP. For this reason, web hosting companies exist. They own and maintain very powerful web servers which house your documents. They also connect their web servers to the Internet by very powerful connections, enabling many web users to access your web pages at the same time. If you want to run a web site you need web hosting because unless you've got unlimited funds you would not be able to afford the web servers and connections necessary.

Read our 'Jargon Buster' section to familiarize with the web hosting jargons.

Setting up your first website


Step 1: Decide your domain name
Choose a domain name for your website and check its availability (you can do it in http://www.whois.net/). If it's available you are lucky! Otherwise search for a similar/alternate domain name OR see if you can buy it (there are many domain auction sites).

Step 2: Order a hosting plan in IndiaCPU.com
Choose the right plan for your website and order it.

Step 3: Get your hosting account login details
You will get a mail from us in 24-48 hours with your new hosting account login / password,  FTP login, IP, Control panel URL etc.

Step 4: Login to your control panel
Login to your account control panel (snapshot1,snapshot2). Go to Add/remove email accounts and create a new email account. Update the account contact email (top left) with this email id.

Step 5: Upload your first html file
Create a html file (index.html) using a html editor like frontpage or copy this to a empty html file.

<html>
<head>
<title>My Web Site</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>This is my New Web Site!</h1>
<p>Hey! Welcome to my Web site.</p>
</body>
</html>

Go to 'File Manager' in control panel. Click on the public_html folder icon (not folder name). Click Upload File(s). Browse and select the newly created index.html. Click Upload button.

Step 6: Visit your website

Type your website URL in browser. You should see the 'My Web Site' page. That's it you are done!


Also Read
Setting up a website using Joomla
Setting up a blog using WordPress
Creating a website using templates
 
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