| Before you can get started in your venture to make | | | | If you type in to your browser 66.154.38.209 you can |
| some extra money online you should understand a | | | | see you will get my EasyCash.org.uk website. |
| little bit about how domain-names and web hosting | | | | When people type easycash.org.uk what happens is |
| works. I will also talk about free hosting solutions | | | | the Domain-Name-System points your browser to |
| which you can use and are perfectly OK to help you | | | | the IP address 66.154.38.209. |
| start off without having to pay for domains and | | | | Now that we know how domains work lets go over |
| hosting. | | | | the actual web hosting. Many web hosting packages |
| A domain name in simple terms is a name in which | | | | are now extremely cheap and the cost of running a |
| you type in to your web browser to access a | | | | website for 12 months is not a lot of money. My |
| website. For example is the domain name we use to | | | | current preferred web host is Prices there start at |
| access the Google website. part at the end is what is | | | | around 3 per month for a simple package up to 15 |
| called a domain extension and there are many | | | | per month for a reseller package. With a reseller |
| different extensions you can register, for | | | | package you can host as many websites as you like |
| example.net.org.co.uk and many others. Some | | | | (you still have to pay for the domain registration). |
| domains such as.edu (Education) and.gov | | | | Once you have signed up for a web host they will |
| (Government) are restricted for the appropriate | | | | provide you with (usually in your welcome email) their |
| professional organizations to register. When | | | | NameServers. NameServers sometimes come in the |
| registering a domain name it must not have any | | | | format of an IP address like we talked about earlier |
| special characters, you can only use A-Z 0-9 and the | | | | or may look like & Once you have your |
| - (dash) character. | | | | nameservers from your web host you need to login |
| Domain names are very inexpensive with many | | | | to the account where you registered your domain |
| costing on average of 5 per year for registration. To | | | | name and set them up. |
| register domain names you can buy them from | | | | There are websites out there that will allow you to |
| places such as GoDaddy or NameCheap. I personally | | | | host your website for free, however they generally |
| prefer NameCheap. | | | | don't allow you to use your own domain name. You |
| So how do domain-names work? Every computer or | | | | will be assigned a domain that will look something like |
| server on the internet has an ip address which is a | | | | Two of the biggest and best free we hosts are and |
| set of 4 numbers. An ip address looks something like | | | | Both of those also offer great packages for building |
| 12.345.67.89. Because these numbers are complicated | | | | your website and make building a website very very |
| and difficult to remember, the Domain Name System | | | | easy. Building a website in general can be simple and I |
| (DNS) was created. The DNS holds records of every | | | | would always advise you to build a site on your |
| domain name and which IP address (the ip address | | | | domain and web hosting over the free solutions |
| of your web host) is associated to it. | | | | where possible. |
| For example the ip address 66.154.38.209 of the web | | | | Get your free web design at |
| server where my website easycash.org.uk is hosted. | | | | MyFreeWebDesign.co.uk. |