A Domain to Call Your Own

A Domain to Call Your Own
A Domain to Call Your Own - Finding the Best Web Site Host for
Your New Web Pages

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:

1) How can I build a web site if I don't know any programming
languages?
2) Who can I trust to help me get my ecommerce domain name
registration done right?
3) What about Linux based web hosting? What are the advantages
and who can advise me on this decision?
4) 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.

A) What is the REAL problem here?
B) 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
hat 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?"

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