Selecting a reliable web hosting service provider for your web site could be a real challenge. Web hosting market is oversaturated with all those web hosting companies that appear and disappear each other day, throwing a shadow on web hosting industry in general. It is very difficult to select and indeed to find dependable web hosting service provider and for this, you should consider a range of things such as functional peculiarities of web hosting provider, its stability, reliability, and secure work of its web servers.



How does the process of placement of your web site in the Internet look like? Web site hosting constitutes the final stage of your web site working out, at this you choose the place where your website will ?inhabit?. For sure the best way will be to choose paid web hosting services. It is necessary if your web site is essential for you and it is even more important if your web site is commercial or business project. You may get Linux web hosting services or web hosting on any other server platform, for example Windows. You get qualified technical service, fast speed of your website load, you will not be liable to place any advertising stuff of web hosting company on it. More over, if you chose paid web hosting service, the attendees of your website will trust you more than if you chose free hosting service.

So here there could be two possible scenarios:

1) You already have your personal web site and domain name registered and your website was hosted elsewhere previously. You determined to transfer your existing web site to any other web-hosting provider. How should you act now? And how to reduce downtime of your website (the time when your website will not be available in the WWW? When you have already selected your future web-hosting provider you should

a)Choose if you will transfer domain name registration service to your new web-hosting provider or will leave domain name management at your registrar place;

b)If you want to control web hosting and domain name registration service from one place make sure that the chosen web hosting provider accepts domain name registration transfer;

c)Ask web-hosting provider about its name servers. Now after you buy web-hosting account you may start placement of your web site.

We recommend changing name servers for your domain name right away since name servers change will require DNS update and this may take from 24 to 72 hours. During this time your web site will not be accessible to public view using its name. But, with web hosting account we will provide you with dedicated IP address and can start to manage your website and upload your web site content (via FTP client software for instance) via IP address assigned to your domain name.

2) The second scenario takes place when you have just taken determination about on-line existence. With web hosting account we will provide you with professional web site builder that will allow you to build your web site in about half an hour. To put your web site in the web you should register a domain name and upload your website to the web server (if you have made it in FrontPage or if you have your web site files on your hard disk) or publish web site of you made it with help of site builder.

Please note that domain name registration will take about 24 hours and when they expire you can access your site using its name. In the meantime your website should be fully functional and accessible through IP address assigned to your domain name.