How to Select a Website Host for your Website

How to Select a Website Host for your website

To get your Website (Domain) on the internet, or www, you need a host.

Selection of packages

All Website hosts have several packages available, many will have an introductory fee for a period and then rising to the true price afterwards.

On introduction, selecting the correct plan, with a new Domain Name – Website Name some will offer this free for 1 year, depending on the domain selected.

Size in pages, and number of users

The plans will state the typical size of the site in Gb – this will be reflected in the number of pages on the website and the content (images – pages – e-commerce)

Bandwidth requirement – the number of users/data handling capacity

SSL – Secure Sockets Layer is a standard security technology for establishing an encrypted link between a server and a client

Hosting should have Email

The host should provide free email set up with the domain name i.e, yourname@websitename

Webmail – access your email on any computer, anywhere

Email forwarding – send email to another email address

.On my website https://norm4webdesign.co.uk I have used for hosting TSOhost, for this site and https://logolfminscot.org.uk, I have used this host for many years.

For another site, we selected for Hosting Siteground and made a migration of the website to Siteground from another host, successfully.

The SSL, secure server status on TSOhost, is at a price, though they offer free encryption for a period.
Siteground offer full SSL as a standard with no extra cost.

Finally, the choice of Website Hosting is yours and there are many to choose from in the marketplace, should you need any further information or assistance please do not hesitate to contact me.