Web Site Hosting
The Daily News Web is pleased to offer both web design and hosting. An important step in the web site development process, is choosing a suitable web hosting service. A secure, reliable hosting plan is essential to maintaining a hardworking web site.

What is Hosting?
Hosting services are required for all web sites in order for them to be accessed via the Internet. Most plans are based on a monthly fee ranging any where from $19.99 to $69.99 or more. A great hosting service will combine reliability, features and support for an affordable price.

What's Included In Our Plan
Currently, web site hosting rates are $19.99 per month or $131.00 per year paid in advance. This rate includes the following features:

• Email accounts
• Webmail and POP/IMAP access
• 100MB of storage space
• Full PHP/CGI scripting
• MySQL database account
• FTP, sFTP and SSH access and much more…

Tracking and Logging
Look for a good tracking and logging program for your web site. Ask a potential hosting service if they have one already installed on their system for you to use. A hosting or web design company may be able to set one up for you. Use the reports to see how many visitors saw your web site, what search strings they used to find you.

Domain Name Registration
What is a Domain Name? A domain name is the address by which a web site can be accessed. When you type www.mybusiness.com into your browser, the name is sent to a domain name server that will find the web site for you. In order for you to own a web site, a domain name is required.

A Good Domain Name
A good domain name is easy to read and remember. The most obvious choice is your business name. Most Internet users expect domain names to be all one word, so it's best if you choose one without dashes. The extensions at the end are also important to consider. The most common extensions are .com .net and .org. Because there are so many web sites out there, new extensions have been invented such as .biz and .shop. These are not great choices since many people don't remember them.

Domain Protection
If your desired domain name is available for both .com and .net, that's great! Buy them both! You probably don't want your competitor to have one and you the other. If a potential customer were to type the wrong extension, they may end up buying from your competition. Buy any similar domain name to the one you want to protect your business name or trademark. All domain names can be set to point to the same web site.

Domain Name Registration Help
Daily News Web can help you choose a good domain name and secure it for you as part of our regular web site development services. Please call (340) 774-8772 x 341 or contact us for a quote.