Web hosting facts and Beginners Guide

I have to set up a new website

Step1 : Register your domain name
A domain name or a web address is the basic name using which you will be viewing your website. example : mydomain.com A domain name being an unique address, should preferably relate to your company name. Though domain names can be upto 67 characters in length it is preferable to  have short names since it would be easy remember and use. Always remember that you should have full control over your domain name since it is equal a brand name of your company. Vist this link for Online Domain Registration.

Step 2 : Ordering web hosting - how much space ? windows or linux ?
Once you have registered your domain it would be necessary to choose a location where you would like keep your web pages which would be displayed globally. In this case you would need to choose an appropriate web hosting platform ie either windows website hosting or Linux website hosting. If you plan to host simple html pages (without asp) then linux is fine. ASP is supported only by windows platform. Web pages consume a lot less pages. For example a 65 page website like ours is just around 1.5 mb of html pages and 5 mb of graphics. So a 10 mb website space is suitable. But what consumes space are emails. We receive around 150 emails daily and the space consumed is around 20 mb per day. So please choose your hosting plans based on the above guidelines.  If you have doubts feel free to Contact us.
 
Step 3 : Pointing your domain name to our servers
Once you have decided the appropriate hosting platform and placed your order then you will receive the details for uploading your website, setting up your emails and the nameservers of your server. You would need to change the name servers of your domain to point to our servers where your website space is reserved. This can be done be logging in to your domain control panel and making the changes. If you have doubts feel free to Contact us.

Step 4 : Checking your website and setting up your email ids
Once the nameservers are correctly set within 24-48 hours your website will available globally and can be viewed by any person with an internet connection. Our default under construction page will show up. We will provide the correct instructions for setting up your email ids.
 
Step 5 : Web design and development
Now that you have your website setup and emails working you can proceed with the task of web designing. We provide professional lowcost web design to suit people at all levels -- personal websites, small business and large corporates. We provide an unbelievably low cost web design as low as Rs. 2000.00 for 5 pages and the entire website is delivered in 48 hours.
 
Step 6 : Ecommerce / Custom software development (optional)
If your web design requires the integration of Ecommerce payment gateway systems, shopping carts and other utilities then we can give you a cost-effective and complete turnkey solution.

I have to transfer an existing website from XYZ web hosting service provider to your server.

A domain is basically a web address and every domain is linked a particular server which contains the web pages so that when a person connects to the internet and types the domain name on the web browser (ex Internet Explorer) the web pages are displayed. The process involved in transferring a website are as follows.

a) Place your order for web hosting with us and receive your ftp user name and password.
b) Backup all your web pages to your local pc. This can be done via ftp. Also download all your emails.
c) Upload your web pages to our server using the details provided with your web hosting setup done by us. Create the email ids also as required.
d) Login to the domain management control panel of your domain and edit the nameservers to those provided by us.
e) Within 6 - 24 hours the nameservers will resolve globally and your website will be transferred to our server.

Note : In case of any kind of difficulty please feel free to contact us. This entire service is provided by us free of cost to all those clients who wish to migrate to our servers.