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To publish your website the first thing you need is a web server to put your web site online on the Internet. A web host can do this for you. A web host provides equipment and other technical programs that are required to build a brand new website. These hosting services charge a monthly fee for the service of storing your website and allowing your website to be live on the Internet. Within that fee, it allows website visitor traffic to flow through their servers so people can view your site on the Internet.

The physical web server does not reside at the consumers home or business which means that the web host services are designated as outsourced services. This means that the hosting organization that you choose has the responsibility to maintain your site structure, files and web pages.

Many web hosts provide excellent services and support that truly assist individuals and business owners to succeed. If you are looking for a reliable web host then Bodhost would be a right choice to host your website as my website is also hosted at the same Hosting Company. BodHost is the top ranking UK web hosting provider along with 24×7 customer support.

All the weight of maintaining the host servers and application fall on the hosting company and not the individual and as a business owner, this is great because there are so many technical routines that you have to do daily to maintain a server.

When you choose a web host to handle your Internet server needs, you achieve the following:

You streamline your Internet costs getting the maximum from your hosting provider;

Work with knowledgeable technicians; and pass IT control functions to the host so you won’t have to worry about maintaining servers and other equipment.

You can self publish your site and use the web host to handle the technical aspects of server management. The host that you choose will give you the capability to load your own site to the server for updates and revisions to your web page.

For uploading your new site, you will need an FTP (File Transfer protocol) program that you can install on your computer. The best I have found (and free) is Filezilla.

Web hosting doesn’t include developing your site (unless they have a special development program) or the development of certain customized programs. You can develop the programs (web-site or server side code) or have someone do it for you.

If you wish to customize your site, you will also need a web page editor, and I would recommend PsPad (also free) which installs on your computer and can be used in tandem with Filezilla.

BodHost can offer a range of web hosting packages like Dedicated Server Hosting, Linux VPS and Windows VPS. Linux VPS hosting being the best option for small to large businesses but, with Windows VPS hosting, you tend to get less for more money as the host has to pay additional bugs for licensing, which is passed on to you.

Choosing a provider to host your site may appear daunting at first, but is really very easy if you ask them your questions on their Live Chat Support, and choose the hosting provider that offers the most help to get you started.

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Into the Internet & web hosting world, one word that you will always get to hear a lot of time is IP Addresses. Shared and Static are the two basic IP addresses which are normally used in hosting. To understand the difference between both the IP addresses you need to know the meaning of IP.

Whenever, you insert a website name in your browser – (www.example.com) that name is translated into some numbers (known as an IP address) and then the computer is headed towards that IP address which is the web site. All the web sites on the internet are established not by its domain name but by its IP address. IP addresses are in the format similar to 192.168.0.48, four discreet blocks separated by periods. You can reach a site by typing in the IP address alone and that will take you directly to the site.

For Ex: www.google.com resolves (turns into) 209.85.129.99. So if you type in 209.85.129.99 directly into your browsers address bar you will be redirected to the home page of this site.

Every web site on internet has an IP address provided to it. For example, every single website on this server does not use different IP addresses. If every site used a different IP address there could potentially be a problem with running out of IP addresses. (Fortunately this is not a problem and is going to be resolved when a new IP address standard is fully adopted).

There are so many sites that runs on one IP address on a server. For example: joeswebsite.com and maryswebsite.com both sites are using the same IP address. Using more than one IP address frees up IP address which are a limited resource. Basically what happens is that when joeswebsite.com is resolved into the IP address, the person looking for joeswebsite.com arrives at the server; the server then realizes that the person is looking for joeswebsite.com and sends that page to the person requesting it. The server basically steps in and does a millisecond of work and saves an IP address.

The use of multiple sites on an IP address is known as Sharing IP’s or a Shared IP address. A particular site having its own IP address, and doesn’t share with any site, it is know as Static IP address. You can always reach a site which has a static IP address by using its IP address alone, but you can’t reach a site using a shared IP address by typing in the IP address alone because when you type in a shared IP address you arrive at the server but the server doesn’t know which site you want because you haven’t told it which domain name you want. So looking at our example above, we typed in 209.85.129.99 and aimed at www.google.com, we know that only www.google.com uses this address as we can get to site without typing in a domain name and thus it must be a static IP address. However, do you know why you need a static IP address?

The main reason for having a static IP address is that you can use SSL encryption Certificate (the thing that makes e-commerce happen) only on a static IP address. In order for a person to transfer sensitive data over the internet at times, this data must be encrypted to prevent someone from intercepting the information. You can only use this encryption (called SSL Certificate) when the web site has its own IP address (static IP). It doesn’t work on a shared IP. So when a website takes in order with a person’s credit card it needs to encrypt this data and it uses SSL with its static IP.

Another cause for having a static IP address is that if a web site wishes to have anonymous ftp transfers (basically where anyone can download files off a site) the site needs to have a static IP address to handle the anonymous ftp transfer. Besides these two causes you don’t need to have your own IP address for a web site.

Hence, while choosing an IP address for your website doesn’t forget to consider these points.

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