Now that you have registered your domain name you need to find a place where your web site will be hosted, unless the registrar already provides you with some kind of web hosting. What's next? Your hosting company should give you details about how to get your site up and running. This information includes your website administration username, passwords, FTP information, paths to directories where your files should be uploaded, and most importantly, what your domain name servers (DNS) are.

Before you can get your website on the web you need to have a domain name. Domain names are the familiar web addresses (domain-name-registration-info.com) that web browsers use to locate a particular website. Domain names, in fact, are pointers to a particular IP address (IP = Internet Protocol) and we use them because they are easier to remember than a series of numbers.

Dedicated hosting or shared hosting? In this article I will analyze what the terms represent and how to pick the best suitable hosting server for your website.

Introduction to your website hosting - it helps to understand some of the details of web hosting services and web hosting companies.