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Getting Started Chapter 2 – Time to get hosted(Part-2)

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What we were talking about was where to get hosting from and I hope you might be through with an account by now. In case, you are not, just leave a message (as a comment) and I will try to help.

You should have received the welcome mail with your hosting details. It should include the following:

1. Your account details

These include you user name and password.

2. Site details

Your site’s domain name (should be a sub domain provided by the host/domain you signed up with) and cpanel’s address.

3. Server details

These should include name servers and might include shared ip address.

You will need the server details later once you’ll get your domain name. But if the host asks for a domain name at signup, get a co.cc domain from http://co.cc.

Getting familiar with your working conditions

Once you have an account,you should get thorough with the control panel. Just wander around,click on random links, to get familiar with your control panel. You will generally find short instructions coming up for your help once you navigate to any page.

Site Initialization

Navigate to the file manager and find you main root folder its generally public_html or ht docs (depends on the service ). Now use, ‘create a new’ file option to create new html document with file ‘ index.html ‘ (don’t use any other name for this time ). For the content go for anything like ‘hello world ! Welcome to my new site’.

Now you are surely through with the hosting so now you need to learn how to set up stuff on it like blogs, forums, etc.

Next chapter will help you learn about setting up domains.

DRV

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Maximizing your potential: Knowing the real you

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‘I gave my 100%’. Well, you might have heard and used these words quite often. May be then you should question yourselves, ‘Is that it? Is that all I’ve got? Have I reached the limit?’ You’ll surely get a no from yourselves.

Actually humans got no limitations. For example, more you exercise, more stronger you’ll get. There are absolutely no limits. Now just look around and you’ll find millions of people doing the same stuff which have done many times before by many other people. Even if you think you are doing something unique you’ll still find loads of people on the same very path. So If you want to give this world something new you really need to think a lot.

All of us tend to spend our lives in searching ones real potential. But as I mentioned in the previous para that we’ve got no limits which in turn means, infinite potential. It all depends on you on to what extend you are able to exploit your potential.

Doing hard work isn’t enough but doing it intelligently and in a unique direction is what matters. That’s the only way you can give something new to the world. I really wouldn’t like people to forget me when I’m no longer around, I’d like whole world to acknowledge my work and remember me in the centuries to come.

Well, I feel that one’s life is a waste if he/she fails to do something extraordinary which has never been done before and is of any use to our future generations. What do you think about yourself, your potential, you aim in life? I know you might have bigger problems to deal with but this is where the secret of life lies.

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Announcements: 7th May 2009

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I finally turned 16 today! And Divyun.com will be completing an year in a few days!!

You should have seen a great deal of improvements around the site!

1. About Page updated.

2. Advertise page finally online and will be further updated soon.

3. Chapter 2 of my tutorials finally out.

4. Proper orderwise list of the chapters can be found at http://divyun.com/tutorials

I know you wouldn’t mind wishing me birthday!

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Getting Started Chapter 2 – Time to get hosted(Part-1)

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TIME TO GET HOSTED

Part-1

Hosting

Well,  other tutorials might suggest you to a create a site and then host it afterwards but I find the following sequence better. As a beginner, making a fast online presence is quite important.

I don’t agree with the idea of launching a site on a particular day or put count downs. I have tried this and believe me , it just wont work. No one’s interested in your site till you really got some viewable stuff on it.

You should get started from the first day itself. Behave a little shameless and invite people to your site ignoring how bad it looks. Constant diligent hard work, maintenance  and promotion is what’s needed for a brand new site.

And now back to topic.

What is meant by hosting??

A web server is expensive and needs a lot of maintenance which, in turn, means more money and time. So we need an alternative and that’s where web space/hosting comes into play.

Hosting is a popular keyword widely used among webmasters. It generally stands for a little space on a web server which allows your files to be viewed on internet using a web browser(eg. Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, etc.).

A browser connects to the web server and displays the files user has asked for. So the first thing is to arrange for web space.

Where to get hosting from??

Just like a web server, hosting might sound to be a costly affair. But the truth is that there are loads of hosts providing web space for free. Though, they lack in a few essentials services you might need later. But for now they would do.

My host suggestions/tips:

Go with http://byethost.org. I think they should be highly suited for our purpose.

Or else.. Google’s always there for you. Search for keywords like ‘free host’, ‘free hosting’, ‘free web space’, etc. and you’ll find thousands of them. Keeping searching till you find something which suits your requirements best.

….Continued in part 2.

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