In the last post, we saw that to build your own website, you need: a domain name, a machine to host your content and a record that maps your domain name to the machine. We saw that instead of building your own server machine, we hire machines from a hosting company. We used an analogical story about a company that builds shelves of racks and leases it to whoever wants to use them. We also mentioned that hosting companies offer machines at different levels of readiness based on your requirements. These different levels of readiness are called hosting plans. In this post we will see which hosting plan suits which type of website. Continue reading “What you MUST know when you start your own website: Part 2”