Creating a website is the first step. But keeping it just in your localhost makes it useless. In this talk, you will learn everything that you need to know about hosting a website and making it go live.
3. - Purchase a domain name
- Purchase a hosting server
- Point domain name to hosting server
Steps for hosting a website
4. - You can purchase domain name from any Domain Registrar., like
godaddy, 1and1.com, namecheap.com
- You can purchase free domain from dot.tk or any other website for
testing purpose
- Who controls different domain registrars? ICANN (Internet
Corporation for Assigned Name & Numbers)
- My suggestion is to purchase domain by your own. Don’t tell your
friends or others to purchase domain for you.
Purchase a Domain Name
5. - You can purchase hosting server from any 3rd party hosting
provider company, like., Siteground, DigitalOcean, Hostgator, etc...
- For testing purpose you can purchase free hosting from
000webhost.com, 5gbfree.com
- Shared or Dedicated Server?
- Windows server/Unix Server ?
- You can also set up server by yourself. It will require Static IP &
regular internet connection.
Purchase a Hosting Server
6. - Nameserver
- DNS Record
- A record
- CName
- MX Record for email address
Basic Configuration on Domain Registrar to point your
domain to Hosting Server
8. - Cpanel/plesk panel: which provides GUI to handle your server
- Add your domain name on hosting server
- Upload your files using FTP(Filezilla or any other software)
- Upload your Database
Configuration on Hosting Server