Hey guys, do you ever thought of having your own website and whats the procedure for getting your own domain so that you can tell others that you have a website. So, let us talk about making of a website. These are the procedures you need to follow to have your own website :

1. Domain Name Registration:

You need to have your web address registered that is commonly known as domain name registration.Their are several places out there where you can register domains for yourself. Name.com  is the best place to register your web address if it is available and the good news is you can also pay through paypal and you don’t need to pay directly through your credit card. Godaddy also offers some good amount of discounts while registering domain names. Do search in comptalks to get coupon codes for Godaddy.

We know that internet domain names are like girls, the ones you like are already taken but you have to smartly chose the address and register it and move on to the next step.

2. Hosting

Now that you have registered your domain name you need a domain name so you need to buy a hosting or if you have some spare PC in your home then you can host by your own, but that’s a tedious process and if you don’t have 24*7 power supply in your home then it is always advised to buy web hosting from the web hosting providers. There are many hosting plans available and you will be confused while choosing a good web hosting company. While choosing a web hosting company do keep in mind about various aspects of web hosting like downtime,speed,security and whether it is Windows hosting or Linux hosting. If you are a college student then you may find that most of the times FTP doesn’t work due to the external firewall of your college. In that case,you need to choose linux webhosting. There are several options available to you regarding webhosting like hostgator,bluehost,justhost and lot more.

When you are starting up you can have shared web hosting plans which are good for the new websites as they don’t need much space and bandwidth and your website works flawlessly.

We have also started hosting site GenX Hosting which is basically for the college students who can’t pay much or don’t have Credit card or paypal . So, if you are living in India and want to buy web hosting then you can contact us to have your own hosting. Even if you have paypal balance then also you can buy web hosting from us. We are also providing free SEO services to our new users for this month.

3. Changing Name Servers

Your web hosting provider will provide you nameservers something like ns1.genxhosting.com and ns2.genxhosting.com . You need to login to your domain registrar and change the values.

4. Upload your files

Now, its time to upload your files to your webhost, you can do it either from FTP or you can directly upload your files through web browser. In Linux Hosting they have cpanel installed in their server and its quite easy to work with . Sometimes in colleges FTP doesn’t work but cpanel works like charm . Using Cpanel you can install any CMS on your hosting in just 2-3 clicks without having to upload your files too.

We have also written on installation of CMS in your computer,so if you want to test those sites on your localhost,have a look at these tutorials :

• How to install WordPress in your computer
• How to install Joomla in Ubuntu
  
• How to install Drupal in Ubuntu
  

If you have any computer related problem, you can ask it at our Question & Answer portal and our experts will answer your queries.

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