Self hosting & home development explanation
28 November 2008
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Free hosting a web business & home development
If your confused about the terminology, free web hosting and home business development, then I will try an clear it up here. I will also go a bit more in depth about the pros and cons of each option.
Self web hosting for free means your web site will be located on your very own PC. The up side of this is it costs you absolutely nothing. This is useful if you just want to experiment with your idea. The down side is that there are a few minor technical challenges, a reduced number of options in the future and most significantly the quality and availability your customers will experience, will be reduced.
The minor technical challenges are dealt with in this chapter. These challenges are a one off. That is once you have overcome them you can forget about them. The most significant options that you will not have are that you are restricted to just one payment processor and a reduced range of domain names that you can use.
The process of setting up off-line development and self hosting are different, but have so many steps which are identical, makes it sensible to describe them together, while pointing out the few differences along the way.
Off-Line or home business Development means using a similar, but slightly different system to the self hosting option to develop your store away from the Internet. Then when you are happy with your money making online business, moving it to the professional hosting, as described below. The plus side of this is you can take as long as you like before paying any hosting fees. The down side of this is the extra technical challenge, as with self hosting, to get started and an extra technical challenge when it comes to transferring your home developed business site to the professional hosting company. However, all the technical challenges are described in detail, in this chapter alongside the self hosting for free option.
As previously mentioned, the process of setting up off-line business development and self hosting are different, but have so many steps which are identical, makes it sensible to describe them together, while pointing out the few differences along the way.
Professional Hosting is were you pay a specialist company to use their facilities. Developing on line gives you the quickest, simplest path to opening your shop. More important than this, it gives your customers, the fastest most professional shopping experience, probably translating to making more money.
If you want to self host for free or develop your business off-line then read on. If you want to develop your business and host on-line with a good value pro host, then skip to the guides about, Getting On Line.