So you have your domain name and you have your new wonderful website. But how are you going to get that up on the brilliant World Wide Web for all your customers to see?

Many hosting providers may try to sway you with talk of the very high bandwidth levels they allow you and the massive amount of disk space but don't base your decision solely on this factor. The truth is over 90% of sites on Shared Web Hosting never get anywhere near there bandwidth levels, with a large number using less than a tenth their limit.



Selecting a good domain name for your website can be tricky. While sometimes the domain name you want may be taken already, you will see that just a small change in the domain name can give you a much better and SEO friendly name for your website. So, before you apply for a domain name, you will have to decide the best domain name for your website.

Presented as Web Space, Disk space or Storage, is the amount of information you can upload to your web hosting account. You can fit more information on a CD than on an floppy disc, Affordable Web Hosting works in the same way. If you are going to present text information, the storage doesn't really matter much, but if you are planning for a large number of images, or videos, you should be sure to get a web host that offer the amount of space that you will need. Getting the needed amount of space from the beginning means you will not have to think about increasing the limit when your material doesn't fit.

If you are planning to put up more websites, then it will be helpful to have the 'addon domains' feature. This will enable you to host multiple websites on one web hosting account without the need to incur additional costs.

Before deciding on a snappy name for your new Shared Web Hosting UK property, what do you want your site to say about your business? Are you going to offer information only, will it be an online catalogue, will you sell online or do you just want to encourage visitors to call your office? If you already have a company registered then it makes sense to register a domain name in the same name. If you are just setting up in business try and make sure your domain name matches your trading name.

The DNS information need to propagate correctly and this can take up to 24 hours for all the DNS servers globally to update and list your new domain setting that hold your website.

The hosting company that I use also allows you to purchase a new domain name with PayPal. This is what I did. The online domain name purchasing website did not accept my debit card. However, I was able to email full payment via PayPal along with the domain name that I wished to purchase. This request was then carried out within minutes by the support team, whom emailed me confirmation of purchase.