A Domain to Call Your Own - Finding the Best Web Site Host for Your New Web
Pages by Sandro Salsi
Developing our own ecommerce web site isn't easy. And finding the best web site
host can be frustrating. So we need to go through a process of deciding what
our real problems are and what we really need. In this article, we will step
through the top five "real" problems and look for a nuts and bolts solution
that will meet us where we are today and take us where we need to be tomorrow.
"Everybody is doing it." Boy you have heard that little phrase thrown at you
often enough, especially when it comes to designing and hosting your web site.
It can get confusing, that's for sure. All we want is to get our web site up
and have it work really well. But how to get from no web site or from a simple
one to a sophisticated site? This is one of what seems like a million questions
that come up as we make these important decisions.
Questions, Questions, Questions
The decision on finding the best web site host is not a trivial thing. So the
questions that pop into your head can be both confusing and intimidating
including...
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How can I build a web site if I don't know any programming languages?
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Who can I trust to help me get my ecommerce domain name registration done
right?
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What about Linux based web hosting? What are the advantages and who can advise
me on this decision?
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How do I decide who is the best web site host for me?
Our goal in this article to start to put some organization to the array of
information that we all have to wrestle with when we are trying to pick just
the right partner to put up the best web site host possible for our web pages.
Divide and Conquer
So often, when we are faced with a big problem, we have trouble getting our
arms around how to even understand the problem, much less the solution. We know
how hard it is to grapple with these questions.
They say that if you start to break a problem down into smaller and smaller
pieces. So let's ask two really simple but important questions of each part of
the problem.
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What is the REAL problem here?
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What will the solution look like?
STEP 1 - A Domain to Call Our Own.
This whole process of getting a domain name can become a maze to those of us
who don't live and breathe computer lingo. Even if we were settled on our name,
the path we need to tread to get the name reserved and getting it attached to
our web site are hard to get your arms around sometimes.
The real problem is knowing what to do first, second and third. The whole issue
of web hosting addresses and domain name registration seems murky and not easy
to sort out.
The ideal solution would be to find the best web site host that would include
services to either help us understand the whole domain registration process or
just handle it for us at a reasonable rate.
STEP 2 - Talented and Cheap!
There really is no question that we are going to use a company to serve as our
web hosting web site. So one of the primary goals of our quest is to find best
web site host that will serve our needs well as we go online. To state it
plainly, we want a web hosting service that is talented and cheap.
How can we cut through the hundreds of web hosting companies to find the one
that is perfect for our needs? In short, we need a small business web host site
that will be a repository of web design and hosting talent and they will offer
there services for a reasonable price.
STEP 3 - There's No Place Like Home
Your small business host web site will reside on a server somewhere. That is
the place you upload your web pages to and that handles all of the traffic and
much of the "business" that is generated by your web site. So right now, you
consider what the best web site host that your ecommerce business web site will
call home.
The real problem also is finding the best web site host that knows what our
problems are and how to deal with people who are not web programmers but want a
high quality ecommerce web hosting provider that can meal all of our needs.
The real solution will look like a company that is built from the ground up
around servicing people like you and me that need someone to cut through the
mumbo jumbo and help us get our web site up and working well quickly and
economically.
STEP 4 - Do I look Like a Computer Guru?
The computer industry is not an easy one for the regular businessperson to
understand.
The real problem is NOT that you don't know how to program a web page or that
your web programming skills are not up to the most recent bells and whistles
the professional developers use.
The problem is that you SHOULDN'T HAVE TO know how to be a computer programmer
just to have affordable ecommerce web site.
The ideal solution would look like a company that can not only provide anything
from hosting a Linux streaming server to a FrontPage based host web site to a
host MP3 site if we need it at a reasonable cost and without making us provide
the training, the talent and the technical savvy to get the job done right.
STEP 5 - Where Do We Go From Here?
Even if you know exactly where you are in the development process, how do you
go about mapping out what step one through one hundred is to take your site
from where it is to a state of the art ecommerce web site?
The real problem can be summed up in one word - experience. We don't have it
and we need someone with a wealth of it.
The real solution will be a company that wins your trust because they build
their services around your needs, your budget and your timeline.
Are We Dreaming?
Are we dreaming that such a company exists? The search for a company starts
with recommendations from friends and others who like us want an affordable
ecommerce web hosting company. The list we get from our research will almost
certainly include epinions as a research tool.
But better than that, you will be able to find additional services as the
sophistication of our site grows and so do our needs. Their services are
leveled so we can step up at our pace so we are always at a level that we need
and always have an answer to that question "where do we go from here?"
About the Author
Sandro is the creator of the http://www.sandrosalsi.com/
website. Since 1998 he has been helping ordinary people achieve
"extra-ordinary" results in business and in life. He lives in Vancouver, BC -
Canada, and he teaches Internet Marketing strategies. Learn to supplement your
income, get free weekly tips and how-to advice by visiting:
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