There are several options available to you for
hosting. Some are better than others especially for
business.
Your ISP (phone or cable
company) may offer free hosting with your Internet
account. However, the address of your site will be
something like this: myaccount.phoneco.com.
You can choose to purchase a
URL and forward it to your ISP account so your URL
will look like this: mywebsite.com.
The best option from the
perspective of search engines is to have a
dedicated hosting account. Forwarding your URL to
a generic account is not the best solution.
Hosting is relatively
inexpensive and you don't need to know anything
about servers to have one.
Hosting also allows you to have
an email address based on your domain like this:
me@mywebsite.com, so that even if you change your
ISP your email will always remain the same. You
can even change hosts and still keep your email
address.
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Agent X was hosting a website site on her ISP's
server for free. She enjoyed the cost savings that
this arrangement provided but learned that there
were more features available with a dedicated
hosting account.
She discovered that many of the
features were available free in a hosting account
that she was paying for separately to three other
companies.
Agent X was paying her registrar
to host an email associated with her forwarded URL.
She was paying another company to gather
statistical information. And finally, she was paying
yet another company to create a mailing list.
By choosing a dedicated hosting
package, Agent X was able to realize some savings,
have a better URL arrangement for the search
engines, and have full control of her server with an
easy-to-use control panel. |
