Lesson Task - Providing Your Own Hosting Service

This lesson Task is to acquire your own hosting service. This hosting service will be needed throughout the rest of your studies, and this Learning Activity is therefore mandatory. You are free to choose any hosting service in the world. If you find it difficult to find one, we recommend one.com. If you choose one.com, the monthly fee is low. The beginner plan is sufficient, and there are step-by-step guidances to setting up the account, creating e-mail addresses, connecting via ftp etc. By acquiring the web hosting yourselves, you get (depending the hosting service):

• Valuable training in providing hosting services

• Domain name of your choosing

• Personalized e-mail account with your own domain name

• Cloud drive

• A lot more space

• 24/7 support

• The service and domain name remains yours after your studies are done (if you wish to keep it)

Consider your domain name very carefully. This cannot be altered. (You can of course sign up for other domain names and delete the one you have, but “getting it right the first time” saves you a great deal of trouble.) Also note that it can take 24 hours for the hosting provider to complete the registration. In some cases, you may need to print out a document, sign it, scan it, and e-mail it back to the hosting company.

Although I already own one domain name for my website - www.deiliephotography.com

I decided to buy a new domain and hosting service from one.com that I could use for the tasks without disrupting my main website. The new domain name is www.deilie.eu :)