Before you can start a website you need to have a hosting provider, a host is basically where you domains are parked, hosts will provide space for your website. Many hosts offer unlimited space for your websites, unlimited domains and unlimited FTP (File Transfer Protocol). FTP Allows you to transfer data from your site to your host, so you can build a site on a different network and transfer it to your host and you will get that website on the domain you currently have on the host.

There are some hosts that offer limited space like only 200GB of disk space and only a certain amount of transfers, you want to stay clear of these hosting sites because they are most likely not worth the money. A Domain is the name of a website, you can transfer them from host to host if you don’t like your current hosting provider and you want a new one, so you basically have millions of options with what you wish to do with your website. Read the rest of this entry