Starting A Web Design And Hosting Company
There are many things to consider if you want to start your own web design and hosting company. This article is going to look at those things so you can decide if it is in your best interest to start a web design and hosting company.
Web Design And Hosting Startup Basics
If you plan to do web design and hosting, you are going to need to very important things to start. First off is a server. There are many different kinds of servers that you can choose from, but if you are looking for stability, ease of management and overall low cost, I would start with a Linux machine. Reason being is that the Linux OS is very secure and makes incredibly easy to set up an Apache web server. You can also do this on a fairly low resource system when compared with Windows.
Next thing you are going to need is a solid Internet connection. Make sure that you get a business class connection and that you can do transactions and business over your Internet connection as most home connections will not allow this. Upload speed will be of utmost importance for your web design and hosting company.
Once you have those two things in place you should be almost ready to go. Next you will need a machine to do your actual web design on. You could use your web server for this, although I highly recommend having a separate machine. This way if you have a problem on your editing station it will not affect your live customers' web pages.
You can choose to go with just about any operating system for your editor machine, but based on the program you are using it will determine what machine is the best choice. If you plan to do your web design and hosting on Adobe products, you may want to consider a Mac. If you are going to use FrontPage, Word and the rest from Microsoft you probably will want a Windows based PC.
As you can see there are many factors that go into putting together a web design and hosting company. It is best that you should know everything you need up front and make sure that you have everything you need before you get started. There are many right and wrong ways to get your company going, so do some research before you get started. I hope this article has helped and good luck with your web design and hosting company!
