Key Points to building a Website

Key 5 Decide where you will host your site

If you have decided to use a Web hosting and design service they will assist you in finding a domain register and a hosting location and in fact most design services already have looked into the cost verses benifits. They will generally provide you with a control panel so that you will be able to do as much of the site maintenance as you care to. Having a control panel also insures you that you can continue uninterupted all the necessary services on your web site

LOCAL VS BACKBONE
When you use a local server you are limited in speed and bandwidth and area of service.

When you use a Web designer with backbone servers you will most likely get a control panel with a broad range of capabilities and the ability to expand into many areas of the internet not even known by some local providers. Stiff requirements for stopping Virus spyware spam and pshing attacks are also built into these larger server systems. All these features are explained in detail by clicking on this link or the icon on the right of this explanation

The Cpanel is usefull to:
        set up Emails
        View Stats of viewers
        check server and
        bandwidth usage
        Password protect files
        upload new files
        the list is too extensive
        to cover here

Here is a few of the backbone providers