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Resources for Web Hosting
A web host is a company which allows you to rent space on their specially
configured computers. Your web pages are placed on these computers, in order
to make them visible by people browsing the web.
If you have a good quality Internet connection, it is also possible to
run a web server on your own computer(s). Your computer will of course
need to be running all the time.
Here are some web hosting resources:
- WebHostingPicks.com
This is a searchable directory of web hosting services.
- HostingCavern.com
Another directory of web hosts. Provides a list of hosting companies
arranged by the facilities/features that each provides.
- Web Server Software
Here's a collection of web hosting software, which might be helpful if you want to set up your own web server.
- Linux Web Server Software
Here's another collection of web hosting software. The programs on this page run under the Linux operating system.
Here are some books from Amazon:
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By Peter Pollock
For Dummies
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Host your own website or blog with this unique guide If you'd like to make the leap from a hosted environment to a self-hosted service, this book is for you. You may be making the move from casual blogging to professional blogging. Or, you might already be self-hosting, but want a good guide to show you how to get more out of your plan. In simple, easy-to-understand language, this helpful book breaks down all the functions of web hosting for self-hosted users, from setting up new e-mail accounts to backing up and securing your site, analyzing server logs, choosing a platform to install, and more. - Breaks down the functions of web hosting for new self-hosters, including casual bloggers who may be moving into professional blogging
- Helps those who are already self-hosting maximize the services they are paying for
- Offers a one-stop, complete resource on web hosting, rather than just a few chapters, as in many blogging books
- Covers setting up and using e-mail accounts, working with FTP clients, backing up and securing sites, using cloud services, understanding domains and DNS, using built-in databases, and more
Web Hosting For Dummies helps you take charge of your own web hosting and having fun in the process! |
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By Sarah McHarry
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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If you are a small business owner or a hopeful Internet entrepreneur, then you know you need a professional website. The first challenge is, how do you build that website without needing to learn how to do computer programming or having to sell your first-born to get a website built for you? The second challenge is, how do you get a professionally-designed and beautiful website built that won't cost you mega-bucks per month to maintain? Because let's face it, it is hard to justify the high costs of building an elaborate website, when you are not yet sure a website will be a good investment of your time and money. The good news is that there is a better - and much less expensive - way to get a beautiful website made, with just a few clicks of your mouse. WordPress started in 2003, with the goal of providing ordinary people a simple way to build a website for free. Today, WordPress is being used on millions of websites, including those of many Fortune 500 companies. The beautiful thing about WordPress as a website content management system is that it is a fully-customizable experience, and it is very easy to use. WordPress Themes define how a website will look - they cover website layout, color schemes, font colors, and page display elements. With over 2,000 Themes currently available, it is very easy to change the appearance of a website. With just the click of a mouse button you can change the look, feel and layout of your entire website without affecting the content. What used to take days to get looking right, now takes only minutes. WordPress Plugins add functionality to a website - what you want the website to do for you or your visitors. With over 43,000 Plugins available, you will find that you can make your website do a lot of specialized tasks for you or your visitors. And with the power of plugins, you can add functionality to your website - track users and what they do, take online orders, manage content in new and unique ways - and more. Again, all with the click of a mouse button. Now a #1 Amazon Best Seller, this popular, up-to-date, step-by-step guide by expert Sarah McHarry will walk you through the essential first steps to building your own website or blog using WordPress. What you'll learn in this book: - How to register your own domain and get the right WordPress hosting
- How to install WordPress with a few clicks of the mouse
- How to create a professional-looking, commerce-ready website with very little effort
- How to add and format your content
- How to use graphics and images
- All about themes, plugins, widgets and other WordPress tools
...and lots more... Sarah shows you how to create a world-class website, quickly, easily and inexpensively, even if you have absolutely no current knowledge of how to build a website. WordPress is so easy to use, and "WordPress To Go" will take what is already easy and make it even more simple - simple enough a monkey could do it! You'll know all the "gotchas" before setting up a WordPress site, discover how to make it content rich, and even how to attract the search engines! You'll gain traffic, exposure, and ultimately more business. Get your copy of "WordPress To Go" now, and you’ll be a thriving WordPress webmaster in no time at all! |
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By Matthew MacDonald
O'Reilly Media
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Think you need an army of skilled programmers to build a website? Think again. With nothing more than an ordinary PC, some raw ambition, and this book, you’ll learn how to create and maintain a professional-looking, visitor-friendly site. This Missing Manual gives you all the tools, techniques, and expert advice you need. - Plan your site. Create web pages by learning the basics of HTML and HTML5.
- Control page design with CSS. Format text, images, links, tables, and other elements.
- Attract visitors. Ensure that people can find your site through popular search engines.
- Build a community. Add forums, fresh content, and a feedback form to encourage repeat visits.
- Get smart. Use free tools to identify your site’s strengths and weaknesses.
- Create your own blog. Post your musings with a free blog-hosting service.
- Bring in cash. Host Google ads, sell Amazon’s wares, or push your own products.
- Add pizzazz. Include audio, video, interactive menus, and more.
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By Doug Kaye
Wiley
Released: 2002-11-15
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Arms IT professionals with a complete blueprint for developing successful Web hosting strategies
Written by a consultant who helped develop the Web hosting strategies at many of today's top e-commerce vendors, this book fills in IT professionals on the full range of services available. The book provides decision-makers with criteria checklists and other useful tools they need for determining what they need, why they need it, how to find it, and how to evaluate and manage it. Doug Kaye provides a clear, complete roadmap for building an effective Web hosting strategy, and offers practical advice and answers to critical questions. The book covers important topics, including the real cost of bandwidth, domain name services, shared versus dedicated servers, backup and recovery, service-level agreements, security, negotiating with and managing vendors, and hardware maintenance and support.
Companion Web site includes links to Web hosting directories, tools for evaluating hosting services, and online articles and white papers. |
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By Amazon Web Services
Released: 2012-03-29
Kindle Edition (56 pages)
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If you have a website that delivers static content, such as product catalogs, images, or user manuals, deploying it in the cloud can make managing traffic much simpler. This guide shows you how to host your site with Amazon Web Services by using Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) to store your content, Amazon CloudFront to serve it up, and Amazon Route 53 to use your own domain name to route users to your site. This documentation is offered for free here as a Kindle book, but it has been replaced with the content in the "Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) Developer Guide" book at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007Q4VYDK or online in HTML or PDF format at http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/website-hosting-custom-domain-walkthrough.html |
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By Amazon Web Services
Released: 2012-03-29
Kindle Edition (61 pages)
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Hosting a web application on Linux servers can be complex and expensive, especially if traffic is growing rapidly or fluctuating significantly. This guide shows how to use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to create a scalable web application that can handle sophisticated demands and workloads. It includes an example architecture of a web application hosted on AWS, and it walks you through a process, using best practices, for deploying a sample application that uses several key AWS services. This documentation is offered for free here as a Kindle book, or you can read it online or in PDF format at http://docs.aws.amazon.com/gettingstarted/latest/wah-linux/. |
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By Meg Brown
Released: 2016-08-09
Kindle Edition (165 pages)
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Thinking of hosting your websites on your own web server but do not know how?
You may want to give this book a try.
This book was written to achieve a single goal: to get you started. By the end of this book, you will be able to host websites on a web server that you built using Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Who this book is for
This book is for those who would like to know more about web hosting on AWS, but are not sure where to start.
Aimed at absolute beginners, this book does not expect you to have prior experience in managing a virtual server. Some knowledge on how websites work is expected, but considering you probably will not be looking into books on web hosting if you do not have at least one website of your own, this should not be a problem.
With more than one hundred screenshots and illustrations, this book will guide you in building a web server for hosting your sites in a step by step fashion. The lessons are explained by examples. As you progress from one chapter to the next you will be adding more and more components until you end up with a fully functioning web server.
Why this book is not for everybody
This is not a reference book. This book avoids using technical terms as much as possible in order to keep absolute beginners engaged. It is true that technical terms are often inevitable (we are addressing a technical subject after all), but a lot of effort has been put in to simplify them. In short, if you expect a highly technical book, this is not it.
All information covered in this book can be found online. AWS has extensive documentation and tutorials available for free. Before you buy this book, make sure you visit http://aws.amazon.com/documentation. If you can manage to go on by using the information available there, you do not need this book.
This book provides a fair amount of hand-holding. It is organized in a step by step fashion, chapter by chapter. That means in most parts, the latter chapters are built upon what were done in the preceding chapters. This is great for those who like to go step by step, but not desirable to some who prefer to skip some chapters and read only the parts that they need.
What you will learn from this book
The lessons start with how to launch a server in AWS and how to install Linux, Apache, PHP, MySQL and phpMyAdmin, which is a setup commonly offered by commercial web hosting providers. They are covered from Chapter 2 to Chapter 7. By the end of Chapter 7, your web server is up and ready to go.
Hosting websites involves dealing with domain names. Chapter 8 will show you how to link your domain name to your server. The lesson continues to Chapter 9, where you will find out how to host multiple sites, each with their own domain names, and to Chapter 10 where you will learn how to create a subdomain within a website. By the end of Chapter 10, your web server will be hosting your sites and you will be able to visit them by using your domain names.
The next step would be to upload the websites’ files from your computer to your web server. This is covered in Chapter 11, where you will learn how to use Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP).
By having your own web server, you are of course free to give other users access to your server. Chapter 12 will show you how to create user IDs for other users to log in securely. It will also show you how to limit your users’ access, to ensure they can only access the part that you allow them to.
Web hosting would be incomplete without the ability to host blogs. Chapter 13 will show you how to implement one of the most popular blogging platforms, WordPress.
The remaining chapters are dedicated to maintaining your server, such as managing log files, utilizing a job scheduler called Cron, implementing updates and installing additional software packages.
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By Gerhard Homveld
Released: 2015-04-21
Kindle Edition (49 pages)
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a Complete guide to help you start your own web hosting and domain registration business from home
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Start a Home Business: Sell Web Hosting & Domain Registration
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---- Imagine being able to fire your boss and work in your pajamas! ------
In this guide, you will learn the following:
* What it means to work from home
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The guide will also help you get *FREE* traffic to your website and grow your home business using various free methods and techniques.
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By Philip M. Parker Ph.D
ICON Group International, Inc.
Released: 2019-11-27
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This study covers the world outlook for web hosting services across more than 190 countries. For each year reported, estimates are given for the latent demand, or potential industry earnings (P.I.E.), for the country in question (in millions of U.S. dollars), the percent share the country is of the region, and of the globe. These comparative benchmarks allow the reader to quickly gauge a country vis-Ã -vis others. Using econometric models which project fundamental economic dynamics within each country and across countries, latent demand estimates are created. This report does not discuss the specific players in the market serving the latent demand, nor specific details at the product level. The study also does not consider short-term cyclicalities that might affect realized sales. The study, therefore, is strategic in nature, taking an aggregate and long-run view, irrespective of the players or products involved. This study does not report actual sales data (which are simply unavailable, in a comparable or consistent manner in virtually all of the countries of the world). This study gives, however, my estimates for the worldwide latent demand, or the P.I.E., for web hosting services. It also shows how the P.I.E. is divided across the world's regional and national markets. For each country, I also show my estimates of how the P.I.E. grows over time (positive or negative growth). In order to make these estimates, a multi-stage methodology was employed that is often taught in courses on international strategic planning at graduate schools of business. |
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By Carl Burnham
McGraw-Hill/OsborneMedia
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This text focuses on the key essentials that a Web host and those who work for that Web host must have to gain and keep the competitive edge. It covers key essentials involving people skills, marketing dynamics, and specialization. As well as addressing a range of services from security and support to outsourcing speciality services, the book covers different types of Web hosts and how to implement the technology needed to offer customers a high quality of service. Blueprints outline the various ways in which Web hosts can structure their technology and services. |
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