When beginning your internet business there are a few things that are vital to your success, having your own site name and a domain web hosting service are two of the most important. Your own web site name will enable you to ‘brand’ your service and you need a good host provider that will offer you a space to put that domain name and the site you build around it. Consider it like this, a massive storage facility where anybody can lease one, or even more, storage units. You pay a monthly fee and will have various degrees of access to your space for storing. The company that is leasing the storage buildings will take care of all of the upkeep and service, you have to look out for your special storage unit. Web hosting is an identical concept. You’ll be hiring some of their server, or a whole server depending on your wishes. You will pay a once per month charge and they will take care of ensuring that their servers are up and working 24/seven. For many folks an easy shared hosting plan (where you lease a portion of a server) that may allow them to host unlimited websites (so long as none need plenty of bandwidth) will be lots.
Still another option is a reseller account. Here’s where you pay to rent a block of the servers and you can sub-divide that block into smaller units and then lease those out. The host provider will still handle all of the maintenance and sometimes the buyer service. Just check the specifics with whichever hosting company you choose.