Developing Dynamic Website with PHP&MySQL - 3 - Web Programming, Web Hosting Service, Domain Name registration
24 January 2008The reason that I chose PHP&MySQL to create my webiste is because they are free and also as powerful as other tools such as .NET.
The server will be Linux server with Apache server software installed. The Linux server is much cheaper than the Windows one and it has many third party tools for you to use, such as: FFMpeg for audio/video conversion directly on your server; ImageMagick for powerful image manipulation.
Next thing is webhosting choice. You have two choices in this case. One is go for a so-called virtual hosting in which you share the same server with other ones. Or you can rent or buy a dedicated server. The first one is much cheaper than the second one. And the first one has less techinical works for you because there are system adminstrators managing it for you 24 hours a day. The later choice will require more techinical attention from you.
For me, as a fresh starter, I chose the first one because the cose is low and I really do not have much time to solve technical issues on my own. I would rather spend time on building the website and promote it and start make money as soon as I could.
Here is a list of webhosting company I have came accross before:
1. IXWebhosting.com:
2. Hostmonster.com:
There are many other hosting companies out there, but these two so far are what my friends and I have used before. I found they have very good service in terms of providing in time technical support as well as the general hosting qualities such as server reliability.
The final thing of this post:domain registration.
You will definitely need a good domain name to start a website. Good names are just like people’s names. If a person has a easy to understand and meaningful name, then people will remember him/her. They also can recall this person more easily. For your site, before you start coding and designing your pages, you need to decide a name for it and found a good domain name.
Good domain names are not that easy to find nowadays because a lot of them have been registered already. Following are my ideas to find a good one:
1. Good names should be short and simple. You want people to remember your site right?
2. Try to use meaningful names not weired ones.
3. Use .com if you can because normally people remember your domain with .com. People do remember .org, .net, and etc., but .com is by far the easiest.
- the next post will discuss my ideas to design the first homepage
One Response to “Developing Dynamic Website with PHP&MySQL - 3 - Web Programming, Web Hosting Service, Domain Name registration”
January 6th, 2010 at 10:20 am
You lucky guys, watch ths video, this is, to me, the 1st flash based free web editor like this, all seo friendly create a free flash website