The majority of the websites in the course of the creation become not on the Internet, and on local computers of webmasters and only after final completion of all works are transferred to network. Such mode it is justified in terms of savings of network traffic and convenience in work as it is protected from failures and falling of network. However if necessary to make the website available to visitors at the beginning site builders there can be certain difficulties. And first of all it is a question of how to post online the ready website.
Instruction
1. In order that the website was available to users day and night, it should be physically on the powerful computer (server) having permanent connection to the Internet. Therefore, first of all the good hosting is necessary for the webmaster for the publication of the website.
2. A hosting (from English hosting) call service in providing computers of the company hoster to owners of the websites for placement of information in network. Today very many companies give such opportunities to the clients. The hosting can be physical or virtual, and also paid or free.
3. A free hosting call the service provided by some large Internet portals, and allowing to create personal pages of users (websites) on the server. Such free hostings as Narod.ru, Ucoz.ru are most known,
Alfaspace.NET, etc. It is possible to receive the complete list of free hostings through any search engine on key request "a free hosting for the website". Some of these services, such as Ucoz.ru, at the same time are some kind of designers of the websites and help the novice user to create web pages, others just provide physical space for the website on the servers. As a rule, all free hostings have any given restrictions in functionality (lack of MsSql, Perl, a limit of mailboxes), forced presence of foreign advertizing, absence of technical support and frequent falling of the website. Therefore more serious and experienced webmasters always prefer paid hostings for the projects. It is worth noticing that at a modern variety of the companies providing hosting services rather it is not difficult to select the most optimum combination of the price and quality for any situation even at very limited budget.
4. After the choice of a hosting it is necessary to transfer files of the website not the server of a hoster. It is the for this purpose most convenient to use special programs – ftp-clients. The most ordinary and available ftp-client it is possible to find in the widespread manager of files – the Total Commander program. For this purpose it is necessary to select the FTP tab in the main menu of the program and to click the option "New Ftp-connection", then in the opened window it is necessary to enter the url-address of a hoster and advanced settings. All necessary data are provided for this purpose by support desk of the company hoster.
5. In addition to the option Total Commander it is possible to transfer the website to a hosting by means of special FTP clients. One of the best is the FileZilla program today. It does not take a lot of place on the hard drive, is very simple in management and it can be downloaded free of charge from the website of manufacturing company (http://filezilla.ru/get/). After all directories and files of the website are downloaded to the hoster server, they need to be configured that the website became visible to net surfers. For the correct setup it is necessary to contact technical support of a hosting that provided you necessary instructions and data of settings. It should be noted that at good hosters support service usually itself helps the beginning webmasters not only to download the website to itself to the server, but also to completely configure it for work. Therefore do not hesitate to write to technical support and to ask for help at any difficulties.