If you want to have a website, the first thing you are going to have to do is to find someone to host your web pages.
Free Hosting
Some ISPs and 'free' (advertising based) web hosts will allocate you some email addresses and web space under their domain name. If you choose to use this type of web hosting, you will usually end up with a long website address like 'www.geocities.com/something23/index1.htm' and an email address like 'john@something23.freeserve.co.uk'. Don't worry, if you choose to use this sort of web hosting you can still use your Domain Name - our
URL Forwarding and Email Forwarding Services will allow you to reach your web space and email address(es) using your domain name!
Full Hosting
Many people prefer the added flexibility (and no adverts!) of full web hosting. With full web hosting, your website address is simply your Domain Name - i.e. 'www.yourdomain.com'. Plans and options vary depending on the web host and plan you choose, but generally you'll get an amount of web space and a number of customisable email addresses for your Domain Name - so you can send and receive email as 'you@yourdomainname.com'. With Full Hosting there are usually many extra options available, including web site stats, spam and virus filtering, autoresponders, databases, webmail and more...
We have teamed up with our sister site, wrchosting, to offer our clients an easy to use full web hosting package, complete with the powerful SiteXpress Website Builder.
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