#12 Publishing Website

Assalamualaikum..

For the 12th week, we learned about how to publish our website. Eventhough only 3 students present in the class, because the other 2 students have went back to their hometown for the general election, the class must go on. At the beginning of the class, each of us are asked to choose one web host. we need to present it to the class about the packages provided, and all of other things that need to be consider before we choose a web host.


FREE WEB HOST

There are many commercial web host available in the market. However, to choose a free web host, there are a lot of things to consider such as:

• Advertising

Does your publish website will be covered by advertisement?

• Amount of web space

How many website can you publish under one account?

• FTP access

Does it provide FTP file transfer or you have to upload each file one by one?

• File type and size limitations

What is the limit of your website file size?

• Reliability and speed of access

Does the website reliable and does it takes too much time to load the website?

• Perl, PHP, ASP

Does it have restrictions in types of files for your website?

• Bandwith

Does it have limit in bandwith?


Some of the free web host are tripod

geocities

and freeservers

Some web host even provide you with free tools and free templates. However, remember that nothing is free in this world. There are some limitations with the free web host. the limitations are:

• You get a free site and the host gets to advertise on it.
• Storage and download amounts are an issue here too.
• Sites that exceed their bandwidth allotments during the month may get shut down until the next month when the bandwidth counter restarts.
• File transfer >> File Management instead of FTP

COMMERCIAL WEB HOST

There are also things that need to be consider when you are planning to use a commercial web host. 

Choosing a Commercial Web Host:

• Reliability
• Data Transfer (Traffic/Bandwidth)
• Disk space
• Technical Support
• Platform/OS
• PHP, ASP, CGI, MySQL FTP, Telnet
• SSL (Secure server)
• Control panel
• Domain name
• Multiple Domain Hosting, Subdomains
• Server
• Price

Overall, after learning about publishing website, now i find that publishing websites is not really complex. I think if i take my time and do a little research about this, i think i can produce my own website.
Till next time, bye!