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What do you need to do to start your Website? It is not too complicated to produce and publish a basic website, anyone can do it, all you need is to grasp a few of the basic principles of how it works!
Where it is:
Your website needs to be stored somewhere in order to be delivered to visitors, and this computer is called its host-server. Internet service providers (ISP's), like the one you called up or connected to to read this page, maintain many of these servers, and most all of them will host either webpages (free) or a whole website (at extra cost) for you.
The distinction between websites and webpages, lies in the name of the server, or more precisely, the internet location of the files that make up your site. Free webpages are everywhere, your provider probably threw in a webpage available for you to use on their server in a subdirectory of their members area, or simply as a subdirectory of their website. You can also get free webpages, quite similar in nature, almost everywhere.
Most commonly, publishers rent the filespace, traffic usage and connections needed from a competitive, independent 3rd party 'hosting provider' business, cheaper and separate from their everyday local ISP. You may also buy and install your own dedicated Internet webservers, at your own offices or at your hosts offices (rent a backbone-web connection) but this is very expensive in the former case and still a large investment in the latter!
Webpages or home pages are just the last part of a website name, website (domain name) owners can offer many thousands of webpages to others by adding subdirectories below, or within their site, or domain, in the form of:
theirdomainame.com/~bob
and so on. Most providers offer pages in this manner, using the ~ mark or /members/ or some other way of
separating these pages from their own site's actual webpages and files like:
www.theirdomainame.com/members/bob/ or
There are many problems with this very cheap approach. You don't own the pages location, and if you find a better or cheaper provider, it may be lost! They may limit the size or amount of use the page can get, and even cut it off by disabling it when too busy, or censor it on you for whatever reason they like. Some search engines will not even index pages of these sorts, depending on the providers reputation. You end up, in many cases with a long site URL (Universal Resource Locator) name like:
www.anyname.com/members5/~your3rdchoice/
These webpages are ok to experiment with, use as a temporary homepage or advertise on, but not too much else. Needless to say, few will be likely to remember a strange URL-name like the one above! In another rather interesting
twist, you can now easily also shorten these longish names to:
come.to/mypage or
Simply go to V3 Redirect Services for this free service! Yes, it seems to be free so far...
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