If you are thinking of setting up your website for your business or you have an entrepreneurial idea and want to make it known, you will need to know the basic questions you need to have before starting. Of course, setting up your own page is a good showcase to publicize your business and an investment that you will not regret.
There are two basic things that you will need to set up your page: hire a domain for your business, which will be the digital showcase, and hire a hosting or other hosting system, to host your page. Both questions are necessary and cannot exist without the other. Normally many web hosting companies offer you the domain for free if you hire an annual hosting plan. Without a doubt, we recommend it.
First step: hire a hosting
In the market you will find many web hosting plans. The choice of one or the other will depend on both your budget and your needs as well as the technology you are going to use to design your website.
If you are clear that you are going to use WordPress, the star CMS in Spain and the world, in fact more than 60 million people use it for their website, we recommend hiring a WordPress Hosting . Unlike the basic shared Web Hosting, a WordPress Hosting has a special configuration to work with this CMS. A configuration that will improve, thanks to different cache systems, the loading speed of your website and that will promote its security.
If your budget is tighter, however, opt for a Web Hosting plan . You will find them on the market for 2.90 euros per month , as is the case with the plans offered by the Spanish web hosting company, Axarnet. Opting for web hosting is the logical step for those of you who are starting out, since you can always choose to migrate to another hosting plan with more resources, such as a VPS server , as your project grows.
What should you look for when hiring your hosting
Once you decide on the type of hosting plan where you want to host your website, you must look at a series of questions before hiring it. In the first place, we believe that 24 × 7 Technical Support is essential and that in addition to being always available, issues are explained to you simply and in Spanish. Because if understanding any technical incident in Spanish is already difficult, imagine if they speak to you in another language. You tend to think that when you are setting up a project, you will never need that service, but believe us, you will.
On the other hand, it is interesting that the hosting provider gives you pre-installed apps like WordPress or Prestashop . They will avoid wasting time with CMS installation processes, which can sometimes take a long time. Along with this functionality, you should also look at whether they offer you the opportunity to try the free hosting for a period of time. Axarnet offers you 3 months free , enough time to start designing your website at no cost.
Other questions you should look at is whether the servers are in Spain , because this will affect your positioning if not; if they offer scalable plans, to be able to upload resources once the web begins to attract traffic and if web security works well , with automatic patches and antimalware.
Second step: Register your domain
Once you have contracted your hosting plan, it is time to register your domain . And this is when the problems with the star question begin. What domain do I choose? Choosing the domain for your website can be a laborious task. We recommend that you make a list of possible names and always opt for domain extensions such as dot com and dot is . Choose the latter if you are clear that your audience is never going to be international.
When it comes to naming names, include the name of your brand , but also include a keyword . Of course, do not create long names, with hyphens or with numbers. They will be more difficult to remember and to pronounce. And that is not convenient.
Once you have it clear, find out if the chosen name is free, and if it is, register it. In the event that another person already has it registered, perhaps you can choose to either incorporate a keyword or opt for another domain extension such as online point.
Conclution
Once you have contracted the domain and the hosting, you can start designing your website. Sometimes choosing your hosting provider can be a complicated task, but if you follow these tips, it will surely be much easier.
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