Hosting Your Web Site

In order to do network marketing of any kind, you need to own and control web sites. In fact, you will need a network of web sites that grow and link to each other in order to cross sell your products.

To have a web site you need a domain name (in fact, you will need multiple domain names) and a place where your web site will “live,” a web hosting service. Of course, you will need other things, and these will be covered in future posts, but this entry will deal only with domain names and web hosting.

First, the domain name. In order for visitors to access your web site, you must obtain a domain name. Web sites are accessed by an Internet Protocol (IP) address, which is a number that uniquely identifies each computer or device connected to the Internet. A domain name the text version of an IP address. It usually has the format www(dot)mydomainname(dot)com (or one of a number of other prefixes like .net, .biz, etc.).

There are hundreds of sites where you can register a domain name, but the one I like the best is the same company that I like best for hosting a web site. It is 1&1 Internet Inc., the largest web hosting company in the world. Since you are going to need a web hosting company anyway, if you sign-up for hosting service with 1&1, you get some number of free domain names, depending on the program you choose. You can click on button at the end of this post to go to 1&1 to register a domain for only $5.99 a year for .com names or to sign up for web hosting.
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