There are millions and millions of websites available on the internet, it indicates that how easy having a website is. Before starting a website you should have a plane of what you are going to do with that website. Then you have to select an appropriate domain name which matches the purpose. As we can see, there are millions of domain names have already been registered, thus you have to find a domain which is not owned by anyone. Usually .com is the most preferred domain and in case the .com is not available you can consider registering .net or .org or etc as well, depending on how great that domain name is, or simply you can select an alternate available .com name. Generally, registering a .com is always preferred and advised rather than registering .net or .org, as long as you don’t have a specific purpose to go for a .net or .org. Even it you really need a .net or .org or etc domain name, you had better own the pertaining .com as well and you can redirect it to your .org or .net website, like wikipedia does.

There are many domain name registrars available, there you have to choose one considering it’s reputation, customer base, and the other factors which you are looking for. They register your domain in ICANN and remember your domains are registered under one authority which is ICANN and not the company throw which you register and administer the domain. You can not register the domain name yourself  directly in ICANN and you have to do it through a register. Usually the registrars  charge $10 for one year. You can register a domain name for any number of years paying the charge or you can register for one year and extend it further before it expires. Once you have registered a domain you are the owner of it and you are entitled to either extend it or disown it any time. Besides, you can transfer your domain from one register to another anytime after 60 days of registration.

After registering the domain name you have to buy a server space in order to host your website. There are several type of hosting solutions available and you have to select the appropriate solution. Usual Solution are

Dedicated server – Very Expensive and not necessary for an ordinary website, used by the websites which has very large number of visitors. cost roughly, $200-$600 per month or even more depending on the server features.

Virtual Private Server – Expensive but not as expensive as dedicated servers and even VPS is not necessary for an ordinary website. Cost roughly,  from $20-$200 per month depending on the server features.

Shared Hosting – The affordable option by anyone, more than 95% of the websites are hosted in shared hosting and this is the most suitable type of hosting for an ordinary webmaster. If your websites have a four digit number of visitors per day. This options is perfectly enough. Cost roughly $2-$20 per month.  And when starting a website, any way you are are starting it as shared hosting and you can consider switching to VPS or Dedicated if your website become popular and visited by many thousands of users per day.

Before buying a shared hosting you have to find a proper web hosting company and a proper package which well fits your requirements. Some hosts charge bit higher and some charge bit lower. If you go for a cheap host, you have to make sure that their quality of service is not bad and it you are selecting a bit expensive host, make sure that you are not paying more than the deserved price. Be aware that expensive doesn’t always mean good. By referring to unbiased forums and reviews you can get a clear picture about the leading and reliable web hosts. And some chicanery hosts will say they give you unlimited space and allow unlimited bandwidth, but in reality it is impossible because even the total wed space a webhost have and the total bandwidth they can use are limited. They will not tolerate the space and traffic after some extent though they say they are unlimited. You don’t be much concerned much on the web space and bandwidth which a web host says that they allow, because, usually, the will not hit that limits, especially at the initial stage.

This article gives you a good guideline to start a website or many websites.