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Hi everybody.

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Today we're going to talk
about hosting your site.

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And what I mean by hosting your site
is how you take pages that you've been

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working on so far and put them up on the
Internet for everyone else to see them.

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In order to host your site,
you need two things.

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You need, first, a domain name.

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That's the name that people
look at in your URL.

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The second thing you need is a hosting
company, usually called a hosting service.

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And they are gonna be the one
to act as a server for

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your files to let other people see them.

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So first, let's talk about domain names.

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Usually, when you go to buy a domain name,
you're gonna purchase it for

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multiple years at a time.

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Cuz it really doesn't make that much
sense to own your domain name for

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only a single year, unless of course
maybe you're running for an election or

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doing something where you know you
only want it up for a short time.

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The most common domain names
have the domain ending of .com.

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But more and more the other
extensions are getting acceptance.

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So if you're go to buy a domain name,
and the only way you can get the name

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you really want is to use .net or
.biz, that's okay.

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I recommend that you still go ahead and
do it.

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The important thing to know is
that domain names by themselves,

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they're really pretty
much completely useless.

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You can own it, but unless you have
files there that people can look at,

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no-one's going to be able to go there and
see anything.

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So this is where the hosting
services come in.

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So if you were to look at your url right
now on your page, when you make a file and

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you right-click and you're looking at your
site, in Chrome or Internet Explorer or

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anything like that, you're probably
gonna notice that the protocol is file.

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We don't want that.
We don't want it to be file or C: or

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my documents.

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We want it to be something
that looks like www, and

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that's where the hosting company comes in.

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So, what you need is a registered IP
address to connect your domain name

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with the Internet.

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So, hosting services are going to vary.

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They go from free, to what I call
midrange, to really full service.

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And so, you need to decide what kind
of hosting service best fits you.

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To be honest, I usually recommend
free when you're getting started, and

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then make your way up.

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But let's talk about the pros and
cons of each one.

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So with free services,
you really have little or

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no control over your domain name.

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So if you go and look at some other
people's, particularly from your school,

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your work, things where people are not
really there just for the domain name,

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and you're gonna see things like
wicks.whatever.whatever and

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then your name.

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You're going to have really limited tools.

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Sometimes when you pay for a site,
you're gonna be able to have

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email registration and
different things like that.

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Free services don't really
wanna give you too much freedom

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because they're a little worried
about what you're gonna do.

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Probably the worst part about free
services is that there's a lot

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of advertising and redirects.

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If somebody goes to your site and

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makes the smallest little typo, rather
than getting a nice friendly warning,

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they're probably going to be redirected to
some somebody trying to sell something.

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The nice part about free services is
that they have a very familiar look and

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feel across all of them.

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If you sign up for one service and

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learn how to do your hosting on it, you
can pretty much rest assured that you're

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gonna be able to manipulate your files
on any other free service as well.

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So let's talk about paid services,
both the mid range and the full.

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With paid services, you tend to have much
better tools for manipulating your code.

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It's not just about putting
your files up on the web.

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You can do things like have email filters,
send out special, what we call cron jobs.

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Cron jobs are different files that you
can run at different times of the day.

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So if you wanna have a database,
you wanna have a list server,

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you wanna have emails, then you might
wanna pay for the paid services.

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The other really nice thing about paid
services is that there's technical support

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available to you.

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So you can go ahead and email,
chat, anything you need.

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You're not gonna find that
with the free services, or

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it just won't be quite as good.

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But before you go for the paid services,
I really recommend that you check for

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free services through work or
school as well.

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A lot of time these free services
still have the really great tools and

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the support, but
you just don't have to pay for them.

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So, if in the end you're not
quite sure what you want to do,

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if you want to go with free or

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paid, I know it can be overwhelming
when you decide what you're gonna do.

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So I've simply recommended one site
that I know a lot of my students use and

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that's Byethost.

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You go ahead and
go to this url, byethost.com.

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Notice that it's b e y t h o s t .com.

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Once you get signed up, you're going
to want to make sure that you remember

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the password that you type in because
they're not going to mail it back

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to you and if you cannot remember it, it's
really going to lead to a lot of problems.

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In fact, you'll probably end up giving
up and signing up for a new account.

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Once you've done that and
you've filled it out,

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you're probably gonna need to check
your spam because in that spam,

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they're gonna send you an email that tells
you all the details that you're gonna need

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in order to connect through either
cPanel or some other type of FTP device.

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So, I hope you're excited, and I hope
you're gonna take that next step, and

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that you want to go and
post your work out on the web.

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Good luck.