There are several people who for different reasons wish their website to be professionally hosted. Though, in certain cases self hosting is a better alternative. For an instance, a user will not like to waste money to a hosting company on a new project or idea which is according to him/her in the darkness of uncertainty. Self hosting not only saves money but user can invest that money as a capital in his/her own business. When a particular business starts flourishing and starts getting a lot of traffic then priority should be given to pay web hosting.
A computer and a fast internet connection (DSL or Cable) are the equipments required by a person to host his/her own website. What all required is, to switch on the computer with online connectivity for full 24/7. In addition to it, 7 steps mentioned below can be very useful for a person to make his/her website available to visitors:
Step no.1.
Setting up a web server
There are several Windows operating systems which one can get along with a web server; otherwise the user can download it for the free depending on the version of Windows. Now, one question may arise in the mind, what web server actually is? It is a program that accomplishes its role in the background of user’s computer concentrating on troubles of visitors online or one can rather say that, it is software which finds user’s pages in his/her computer and delivers it to the users demanding it.
Step no.2.
Arranging the web server
There is nothing much to do for the user in this step, rather there is just need to tell the web server to seek out the website from the entire location of computer.
Step no.3.
Getting a domain name
User needs to decide on the name that he/she wishes for his/her site and should purchase it from the provider. They are cheap and user needs to pay on per year basis.
Step no.4.
Arranging DNS
It is a place where user need to link website name to the IP address of his/her computer. So users are transferred to that particular computer when they type the name of that particular website.
Step no.5
Arranging user’s router
It is compulsory that the router should have the knowledge about the computer that contains the web page so that it can easily understand the location where users are needed to be forward.
Step no.6.
Active IP solution
A large number of people possess an active or a dynamic IP address provided to them by their ISP. This denotes probable change in the IP address of user’s computer. This trouble arises due to the reason that DNS requires to know the IP address of the computer that people require to be forwarded while typing a domain name. One can easily sort out this problem without paying his/her ISP by having a static IP. There are applications available that will automatically update DNS when user’s IP changes.
Step no.7.
Server’s Security
The final step is devoted to protection of computer from malevolent programs present on internet through installing and arranging the essential software acting as a shield for computer.
A computer and a fast internet connection (DSL or Cable) are the equipments required by a person to host his/her own website. What all required is, to switch on the computer with online connectivity for full 24/7. In addition to it, 7 steps mentioned below can be very useful for a person to make his/her website available to visitors:
Step no.1.
Setting up a web server
There are several Windows operating systems which one can get along with a web server; otherwise the user can download it for the free depending on the version of Windows. Now, one question may arise in the mind, what web server actually is? It is a program that accomplishes its role in the background of user’s computer concentrating on troubles of visitors online or one can rather say that, it is software which finds user’s pages in his/her computer and delivers it to the users demanding it.
Step no.2.
Arranging the web server
There is nothing much to do for the user in this step, rather there is just need to tell the web server to seek out the website from the entire location of computer.
Step no.3.
Getting a domain name
User needs to decide on the name that he/she wishes for his/her site and should purchase it from the provider. They are cheap and user needs to pay on per year basis.
Step no.4.
Arranging DNS
It is a place where user need to link website name to the IP address of his/her computer. So users are transferred to that particular computer when they type the name of that particular website.
Step no.5
Arranging user’s router
It is compulsory that the router should have the knowledge about the computer that contains the web page so that it can easily understand the location where users are needed to be forward.
Step no.6.
Active IP solution
A large number of people possess an active or a dynamic IP address provided to them by their ISP. This denotes probable change in the IP address of user’s computer. This trouble arises due to the reason that DNS requires to know the IP address of the computer that people require to be forwarded while typing a domain name. One can easily sort out this problem without paying his/her ISP by having a static IP. There are applications available that will automatically update DNS when user’s IP changes.
Step no.7.
Server’s Security
The final step is devoted to protection of computer from malevolent programs present on internet through installing and arranging the essential software acting as a shield for computer.
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