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There are 3 broad ways to host a web site.
The first is to use a free
service from communities such as geocities. The problem with free communities
is that you normally can't sell anything, but most important is search engines
will not spider your site. You are isolated.
The second is to use your
ISP. If you are with a small ISP that may not be a bad idea. Small ISPs in
the past setup their web servers so that they could work and build their
own web sites. That meant that you could benefit from those advantages without
being hampered as might be the case on a very large ISP which is more concerned
about security and ISP connections. In all cases I would stay away from AOL.
The third approach is to use
a dedicated web hosting service company. The advantage of this approach is
that these companies do not have to waste precious resources on ISP connection.
That takes both computing power and man power to handle newbees to the Internet.
So the prices and performance appears to be better if your go with one of
these companies. The disadvantage to this approach is that your free 10-40
MB that you have with your current ISP is idle.
There are a number of sites that specialize in keeping track of ISPs and web hosting services. The following site is not bad.
Hostindex.com This is a nice site that has a good selection of reseller links
If you chose to go with a web site hosting company, be aware that you can become a reseller of web hosting space. Although you may not want to resell space, you may find that you want to open multiple domains. This approach of becoming a reseller will reduce your costs.
Be careful of fast talking salesmen (and I guess women too). Your service should provide the following capabilities as a minimum, with no additional costs for use or setup:
Although not required, its a good idea to register your own domain name. I would recommend that if you have created a site and you are still working with it 6 months later, that you definitely register your own domain name. So instead of folks arriving at your place with with a domain name like:
www.yourisp.com/~yourusername
it will be
www.yourdomainname.com.
Although there are many registration services, go to NetworkSolutions.com. They are a nice third party. Follow their instructions, pay the $$$ and be done with it. Do not use your ISP to register your domain name. Sometimes they take ownership of it and you can't leave the ISP. It is also a good learning exercise to go through the registration process. Although painful, you will feel good after you are done.
Before signing up with a web hosting service or and ISP or and ISP which offers web space you should analyze the network. There are big differences and it shows in the analysis. The simplest tool to use is tracert on the PC. Just fire up a DOS window from your start menu and enter:
tracert www.theplaceyouarecheckingout.com
This will perform a tracerout from your current connection to the destination that you entered.
Tracert Example
C:\WINDOWS>tracert www.fredsspot.com Tracing route to www.fredsspot.com [64.176.161.253] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 325 ms 337 ms 340 ms hamster.magpage.com [216.155.35.44] 2 335 ms 340 ms 339 ms eth3-0.pm3-gw.phl.magpage.com [216.155.35.33] 3 338 ms 339 ms 339 ms Serial2-9.GW5.PHL1.ALTER.NET [157.130.7.253] 4 338 ms 339 ms 339 ms 540.at-3-0-0.XR2.TCO1.ALTER.NET [152.63.38.194] 5 355 ms 339 ms 338 ms 292.at-7-2-0.XR2.DCA8.ALTER.NET [146.188.162.253] 6 336 ms 340 ms 340 ms POS7-0.BR2.DCA8.ALTER.NET [152.63.35.193] 7 357 ms 339 ms 359 ms uu-gw.wswdc.ip.att.net [192.205.32.133] 8 338 ms 339 ms 339 ms gbr4-p50.wswdc.ip.att.net [12.123.9.54] 9 336 ms 339 ms 339 ms gbr5-p70.wswdc.ip.att.net [12.122.5.197] 10 337 ms 339 ms 340 ms gar2-p360.wswdc.ip.att.net [12.123.9.57] 11 338 ms 359 ms 340 ms 12.124.234.10 12 352 ms 339 ms 338 ms BGW-VE2.dedicatedns.com [64.176.255.249] 13 * 549 ms 338 ms www.fredsspot.com [64.176.161.253] Trace complete.
The things to look for are number of hops and the time. Note that we left our ISP after 2 nodes, went to the ALTER.NET backbone, jumped to the att.net backbone, then arrived the the fredsspot web hosting service.
Folks have developed ping and trace programs using PERL, CGIs and the web. Just enter traceroute and or ping into any search engine and these sites with surface. Some folks have created nice analysis tools. This is a nice alternative if you find yourself unable to use tracert on your PC.
http://www.cassbeth.com/cgi-bin/trace.cgi
The nice part about a trace route is you can start to analyze who owns and operates various parts of the web using the whois capability. The best place to go is networksolutions.
http://www.networksolutions.com
http://www.networksolutions.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois
Registrant: L-3 Communications (L-3COM-DOM) 640 North 2200 West Salt Lake City, UT 84116 Domain Name: L-3COM.COM Administrative Contact, Billing Contact: Brown, James (JB7488) brown@CSW.L-3COM.COM L-3 Communications 640 North 2200 West Salt Lake City, UT 84116 (801) 594-2836 (FAX) (801) 594-2722 Technical Contact: ORME, Kenneth A (KO591) ORME@CSW.L-3COM.COM L3 Communications 640 North 2200 West Salt Lake City, UT 84116 (801) 594-7020 (FAX) (801) 594-2722 Record last updated on 09-May-2000. Record expires on 22-May-2002. Record created on 21-May-1997. Database last updated on 7-Jan-2001 05:01:46 EST. Domain servers in listed order: DNS1.L-3COM.COM 128.170.244.4 DNS2.L-3COM.COM 128.170.244.5 GCSD02.CSE.L-3COM.COM 166.20.84.100 SYS3.CSW.L-3COM.COM 128.170.20.2 HERMAN.CSW.L-3COM.COM 128.170.20.150
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