Website Hosting
While you can obtain a website design and development from anyone, the website will not actually be on the Internet until a website domain name is purchased, hosting has been provided, and the website is uploaded to the hosting company’s server.
Domain Name
The domain name is nothing more than the name of your website or company, if available. For example, if you owned a company called United States Red Widgets, you may want to obtain the website domain name “usredwidgets.com” to point to your company’s website. Alternately, you could just call your company’s website “redwidgets.com”. There are several extensions (.com, .net, .us, .info) you can try to obtain but the .com extension is the most popular.
There are several companies who deal in domain names at a cost of around $10.00 per year and you can use anyone you chose; however, if you use BeTheNet to produce your website, we will obtain your domain name for you at no initial cost to you after determining what name you want. This works out to be the best because after the first year the domain name has to be renewed and many website owners forget to renew it and lose there valuable URL. By having BeTheNet keep track of your renewal, the chances of this happening are greatly reduced.
Web Hosting
Website hosting can be obtained from a multitude of companies for from approximately $5.00 per month for the cheaper quality hosts up to any amount depending on what your website requirements are. Again, if you use BeTheNet to produce your website, we will provide you a basic hosting package for the first year at no cost to you. After the fist year, we will charge you $10.00 per month to continue hosting your website. By hosting your website, we can be certain that the requirements for our website construction are met and provide you a valuable service. Of course, you can use any hosting company provided they meet the requirements of your website. If you have a website but desire hosting with BeTheNet, just contact us for pricing.
Web Deployment
Finally, the Deployment of your website involves the uploading of your website files to your web server and pointing your domain name NDS to that server. Again, if you use BeTheNet services to build your website or if you simply want to move your existing website to BeTheNet hosting, we will handle this free of charge.