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How to Choose, Register or Transfer a Domain Name
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How to Reduce Web Hosting Bandwidth Usage
How to Transfer Your Web Site to Another Host Without Losing It.
How to Analyze Your Web Site Traffic


How to Choose, Register or Transfer a Domain Name
Copyright 2002 Herman Drost

Every professional business should be keeping up with the
demands and needs of its customers, if it is to survive. One of
the essential tools of any business these days is to have a
professional web site. This begins with choosing and registering
a domain name that will clearly identify and brand your business
online for many years to come, so you need to choose wisely.

How to choose a domain name
1. If you want your web site to have an added advantage in the
search engines, think of a domain name that includes keywords
visitors would search for in the main search engines.

2. Make a list of all the possible names that would suit your
business (i.e. isitebuild.com contains resources for building
your own web site or getting one built). Use www.nameboy.com for
researching domain names. NameBoy will generate domain names
based on the keywords you enter. If the dotcom name you want is
not available, create a longer name that describes your business
or use names that include hyphens (i.e. ihost-websites.com)

3. If possible, keep your domain name short so it is easy to
spell and easy to remember. Take into account someone may
remember the name but forget there is a hyphen in it – you then
miss out on those potential customers.

4. If the dotcom name is not available, try the other new
abbreviations such as .BIZ .US,.INFO, .TV. These are not as
popular as .COM, however you may get closer to the name you
want.

How to register a domain name
1. Any company that sells domain names must be registered
and accredited with iCann - The Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers (http://www.icann.org).
You can get a domain name for under $10 from Godaddy.com.
Read carefully what’s on their site as you go through the
registration process. It’s easy to inadvertently sign up
for other services you don’t need.

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2. Register your domain name in your own name, not someone
else’s. Sometimes your host may do this for you. This could
cause you problems in the future, should you decide to transfer
your domain to another hosting company.

3. Renewal - you have had your site on the Web for a year, sales
are pouring in when suddenly, your site disappears – it won’t
show up anymore! What happened? Well, you forgot to renew your
domain name. Hopefully this will never happen to you!

When you sign up for a new domain name, make sure your domain
name registrar will send a reminder when your domain name is
about to expire.

4. When asked about DNS server (domain name system) or Name
Server information, insert your Primary Name Server and
Secondary Name Server information – ask your future Web Hosting
service for this information, if you don’t have it handy.

What is the DNS system?
It is the computer action of changing domain names into
numeric Internet protocol (IP) numbers which enables
computers to locate web sites and e-mail.

If you haven’t chosen a Web Host, then park your domain name
with your domain name registrar (this is a temporary location to
store your domain until you are ready to have it hosted).

How to transfer a domain name.
There may be several reasons why you would want to transfer:

-Renewing Domain Names
There is a good chance that you could save money on domain
name renewals by transferring them to a different registrar.
Check out the prices from different registrars at NewRegistrars.com.

Before renewing a domain name, make sure you know which
registrar the domain name is actually registered with.
WhoIsQuery.com is the only WhoIs known that handles
the CORE registrars as well as the ICANN ones.

-You parked your domain name and have now found a Web Host
to upload your site to.

-You are not happy with the service or are paying too much for
your current web host and want to switch to another.

1. If you are transferring your domain name to another web host,
download (copy) all files to your computer from your old host.
Sometimes files may be stored on your host but not on your
computer, so doing this will ensure you downloaded the whole site.

Keep a copy of your files on the old host, while you transfer to
another host, so you won't experience any downtime of your web site.

2. Open a new hosting account.

3. Change the DNS (domain name system) or Name Server information
on the current domain name to the new hosting company name servers.
You can find this information by going to the domain name registrar
(the place where you registered your domain name).

Your domain will take some time (24-72 hours) to propagate over
the Internet, before it appears on the new hosting company servers.

4. Upload all files to the new host.

5. Amend and test your web site. Check that all files have been
uploaded from your computer and that your web site appears
exactly as it did before.

6. Cancel the previous hosting account when you are satisfied
with the transfer of your domain name to the new host.

A Great Tip for registering several domain names.
Since domain names are so cheap these days
(they used to cost $35/year), you can afford to own several
domains. Each domain can have its own web site. Most
small sites use less than 5MB of hosting space, so you could
host several sites for a small price.

What are the benefits of doing this?
Linking each of these web sites together and submitting them to
the search engines will increase your sites search engine rankings.
It will also broaden the places visitors can access your business.

Generating a continuous traffic flow leads to more sales.
You have now implemented and solved one of your crucial
marketing strategies.
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How to Choose a Web Hosting Company
Copyright 2002 Herman Drost

Ok, you have your web site built and are now confused as to all the choices you have in order to find a home for your site.

It is good to make a right choice the first time, because if you have to move to another hosting service, it will cost you time and you will lose some of your valued customers due to the downtime setting up with another host.

You will also have to pay set up and hosting fees for a new account.

Here are some basic things to consider when choosing a Web Hosting Service:

1. Speed and reliability of the servers and hardware
Make sure they have a high-speed connection
(preferably T3 or higher) to the Internet.

*Effective Bandwidth Management –
opt for unlimited bandwidth for your site.

*Backup Systems – good hosts will have back
up systems in place to guard against power failures,
which will cause you to lose data and customers.

2. Features
Compatibility with existing Software and Skills
Is your host’s server, software and support services compatible with the skills and software you are using? For example if you are using FrontPage to create your site, make sure they have FrontPage extensions installed on their server.
Some of the basic features of a hosting service should include:


Domain name registration
At least 5MB of allocated space
Unmetered bandwidth
Free Technical Support
POP3 E-Mail Accounts
Email Forwarding
Email Auto-responders
Email Aliases
FTP Access
FrontPage Support
Own CGI-Bin Access
Free Perl, CGI
Server Side Includes (SSI)
Password Protection
Reseller/referral program
30 day money back guarantee
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Flexibility and room for growth – Keep in mind the future needs of your web site. If the traffic to your site explodes, or in the future you may need a database solution then your host must be able to accommodate the changes.

Quality of their support services

Quality of existing customers – ask for any BIG current customers that are hosting with that service.
Opinions of existing customers – ask for any testimonies of existing customers to get feedback from them concerning reliability and support.
Stability – you do not want your hosting service to go out of business (like what happened to many of the free hosts) and leave you stranded. Check how many years they have been in business.
Support and Responsiveness – Make sure you can contact them 24/7 by phone or email. Test the quality and efficiency of response by sending them an email pertaining to some question you may have before you sign up.
3. Types of Hosting Services
Free Hosting:
Free sites are for people whose sites are small and do not expect much traffic.

Pros
It’s Free
For small non business sites

Cons
No usage of domain names
Limited technical support
Unreliability of servers, software
Limited web space, technical support
Host may shut down due without notice

Virtual Hosting: (also known as domain or shared hosting).
This is the most popular and cost effective form of hosting.

Pros
Low cost
Great for the average business sites
Good technical support

Cons
Multiple sites on server
Sometimes slow updates
Limited security and control due to the large number of sites on 1 server
Use your own domain name (www.yoursite.com)

What can you expect to pay?

Expect to pay $5 - $50/month for a small web hosting package of 20-50MB of allocated space for your site. This will be enough for up to 20 pages with a few graphics on each page. You may find less expensive ones if you are lucky.( isitebuild.com/sitehosting.htm). Most small web sites use only 2-3MB. Make sure you can upgrade your hosting plan, should your site expand.

When you sign up for a monthly service, there is usually no fixed length contract, so you can terminate your contract at any time. Your commitment is month to month although you often will get a discount if you sign up for 1-2 years.

If you follow these basic guidelines, you will have a reliable, efficient and satisfying hosting service that will contribute to the success of your business for many years to come.
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How Much Hosting Space Do You Need?
Copyright 2002 Herman Drost

Many web hosts try to sell you a large amount of web hosting space that then costs you a lot each month. However, you may not need this much space. Have you ever calculated just how much disc space (MB) your web site uses? Do you really need an expensive hosting solution for your web site?

For my first web site, I purchased 20mb of disc space and wondered if this would be enough as I added pages to it. Well, recently I checked the size of this site which had grown to over 20 pages. To my surprise the size was only 3,269KB. This means it only uses a little over 3Mb of disk space.
Most of my friends sites also only use 2-3Mb for their sites. Therefore it is not necessary to purchase a large amount of space for a small site (if 20 pages = 3Mb, then 20Mb = 140 pages approx). Are you paying TOO much for the actual space you need?

How Do You Calculate The File Size Of
Your Web Site?
1. First you need to understand how file size is measured. The smallest unit on a computer is a bit. One bit is one electronic on or off pulse. 8 bits strung together make one byte. One byte of information can put a letter, such as “B” on your screen.

If you put 1024 bytes together and then you have one unit of information called a kilobyte. Put 1024 kilobytes together and you have a megabyte. (Most floppy disks hold around 1.4 megabytes of information). Most of your graphics and web pages are measured in bytes or kilobytes.

2. To determine your total site file size, right click on the root folder where your web site is housed – this will not only give you the total site size but also how many files and folders are contained in your site.

3. If you use an editor, such as FrontPage, go to the reports view, click on the site summary and you will get a reading of the total site file size. In Dreamweaver, just use the method in No 2.
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If you put 1024 bytes together and then you have one unit of information called a kilobyte. Put 1024 kilobytes together and you have a megabyte. (Most floppy disks hold around 1.4 megabytes of information). Most of your graphics and web pages are measured in bytes or kilobytes.

2. To determine your total site file size, right click on the root folder where your web site is housed – this will not only give you the total site size but also how many files and folders are contained in your site.

3. If you use an editor, such as FrontPage, go to the reports view, click on the site summary and you will get a reading of the total site file size. In Dreamweaver, just use the method in No 2.

Prepare To Expand Your Hosting Plan
You may want to add pages, graphics, features eg scripts, databases etc, to your site in the future. Begin with a small hosting plan at first (even 5mb is enough to start out with), and then expand it as you add new features.

Check with your web host, if you can easily upgrade your hosting plan as you grow your site. You don’t want to go through the hassle of changing hosts every few months.

Once you have determined your total site file size, check what hosting plan you have purchased and how much disc space has been allocated for your site. If you are only using 3mb of disc space but are paying for 100mb, then you may want to switch hosting plans and save yourself a ton of money each year.
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How To Reduce Web Hosting Bandwidth
Copyright 2002 Herman Drost

You just received a higher than normal monthly bill on your
credit card for web hosting. Your hosting company explains
that you exceeded your monthly minimum for “bandwidth
usage” and suggests reducing the size of your web site
files.

What is bandwidth usage?
What does bandwidth mean?
How much bandwidth do you need?
How can you reduce bandwidth usage?

Let’s discuss each of these topics in more depth.

What is “bandwidth usage?”
This refers to the total amount of information that has been
served to your web site visitors each month. Every file on
your Web Site has a specific size (e.g. 22K). Every time a
visitor downloads that file, your bandwidth usage goes up
by that amount.

The larger the file, the higher the bandwidth usage when
it is downloaded. The more traffic to your site, the more
bandwidth you will use.
What does “bandwidth” mean?
Bandwidth refers to the amount of data that can be transmitted
in a fixed amount of time. The “data transfer rate” is the speed
with which data can be transmitted from one device to another.
Data rates are often measured in megabits (million bits) or
megabytes (million bytes) per second.
These are usually abbreviated as Mbps and Mbps, respectively.

Bits and Bytes
8 bits = 1 byte.
1,024 bytes = 1 kilobyte (Kb).
1,024 kilobytes (Kb) = 1 megabyte (mb or meg)
1,024 megabytes = 1 gigabyte (gb or gig)
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How much bandwidth do I need?
To determine how much bandwidth you need, estimate the
file size of each web page, and then multiply it by the number
of pages on your web site.

Multiply this figure by the number of the number of page
views you expect per month from your site.

For example, if your web page consists of two 15Kb images
and 3Kb of html, you would have 33Kb of data for that
page. Now multiply this by the number of page views you
expect to have per month (e.g. 100,000 per month). This
would mean 3.3Gb of data needs to be transferred per month
for that page.

Now recalculate this number for each page, and you’ll know
approximately how much bandwidth your entire site requires.

How can you reduce bandwidth usage?
The easy way is to reduce the size of the files on your site,
particularly images and other graphics. For example, you have
a large image (i.e. 200KB) on your web page that is downloaded
by each visitor every time the page is requested. If you
reduce this image to 20KB or remove it altogether, it will
dramatically cut your bandwidth usage. It will also speed
up your site’s performance.

For more information on optimizing images for the Web, read
my article, “Preparing Images for Your Web Site”,

Web Sites that have MP3s to download, movies, music playing
in the background and large images, will obviously have a
higher bandwidth. Large web sites or sites that expect a
lot of traffic, will also use a lot.

If your site has mainly html pages and small images, your
bandwidth will not be that high.

Bandwidth Tools
Monitoring bandwidth
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Web Page Checker
http://www.searchengineworld.com/cgi-bin/page_size.cgi

Tuning up your Web Site
http://websitegarage.netscape.com/

Bandwidth Tips
If you make changes to your site by adding
more files and/or web pages, recalculate your web site
file size.

Estimate how many visitors will be accessing your web pages
over the next few months.

Recalculate the bandwidth usage for your site. You may need
more web space and bandwidth for your site to function
effectively.

Check with your web hosting company to upgrade your
hosting plan.

Conclusion
Now you can avoid the shock of exceeding your
monthly bandwidth usage and paying higher hosting fees.
You are now ready to receive more traffic to your site and
therefore make more sales.
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How to Transfer Your Web Site to Another
Host Without Losing It.
Copyright 2002 Herman Drost

You want to change web hosts because you have found a less expensive solution for your web site. You are not happy with the services your host is providing. The response time for technical support is too slow. You make the decision to change web hosts.

Now you are faced with the daunting task of switching web hosts without losing the files and beautiful design of your web site. How do you achieve this?
Here are the steps you need to take:

1. Make a complete copy of your web site.
Use your favorite FTP utility (I use SmartFTP.com), to download all files to your computer from your web host. Don’t assume you already have all the files on your computer – you may have added some scripts from the Net that are on your server but not on your computer.

If you are using Dreamweaver, use the GET command to copy all your files.

If you are using Frontpage, use the import feature to make a complete copy of the old web site.

2. Choose your new Web Host.
Choose a new Web Host that meets the needs of your web site (www.isitebuild.com/webhostarticle).
If you don’t know how much space you need, read the article:
“How Much Hosting Space Do You Need?"

3. Transfer your domain name
Contact the domain name registrar (place where you registered
your domain name) and change the Domain Name Server (DNS)
or Name Server information to your new hosts DNS information.
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Your site is going to experience a downtime while your DNS
record is being changed and propagated through the world's WHOIS
servers. It will take about 24-72 hours for the process to be
completed.

Maintain any existing services set up on your old domain name
such as email forwarding, web pointing and website hosting until
the transfer is complete to ensure continuity of your service.

You can check the progress of your domain name transfer by using
a Domain Name Search facility such as Whois.net. You should see
the details change from your previous Host to your New Host when
the transfer is complete.

4. Upload all files to your new Web Host.
When you are sure your domain name has been transferred, upload
the files to your new Web Host.

Dreamweaver – define your site first, and then use the PUT
command to transfer all your files and html pages. This will
ensure that your whole web will remain intact with the transfer.

FrontPage – create a new Web from the site files you have
imported from your old host, then publish them to the new host.
Make sure your new host has Front Page extensions installed.
This process will transfer your complete site to your new Host.

5. Transferring web pages to the New Host.
Dreamweaver or FrontPage editors make it very easy to transfer
html web pages. They keep most, if not all your web site intact
for the transfer (as explained above).

Another way to transfer your web pages is to copy the source
code by right clicking on the page as you see it when you visit
the site and select 'view/source'. It will come up on Notepad.
Select 'file/save as' and save to a place of your choice as an
HTML file. To do this, at the bottom of the box just before you
save it, it will say '.txt'. Change the drop menu to 'all files'
and then change the '.txt' at the end of the name you're saving
it as to '.html', then save it. You will then have a complete
page ready to load to wherever you want. If you have images
though, you'll have to save them separately.

6. Amending your web site.
Sometimes your web site may not look exactly the same as on
your last Web Host. This is because the html code and/or files
did not completely transfer. This may happen more often with
the editors. FrontPage will do this more because it uses FrontPage
extensions for publishing (extra files for easy publishing).

Make the necessary design changes to mirror the site you had
previously hosted. You may have to eliminate or add some code to
completely reflect your original site.

7. Testing your web site.
Once the domain name and your web site files have been transferred,
you should test that all services are working on the your new Host
(i.e. email services, etc). If it’s working correctly, go ahead and cancel
all your remaining services with your previous hosting service.

Transferring your web site to a new Host doesn’t have to be such
a nerve-racking task, once you know the exact steps to take. Now
you can enjoy the savings and services of a new home for your
web site.
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How to Analyze Your Web Site Traffic
Copyright 2002 Herman Drost

Getting traffic to your web site without analyzing it, is like
being blindfolded in a crowd. You hear voices, but you don’t
know which direction they are coming from or who they are.
Without analyzing your web site traffic, it’s difficult to
improve your web site marketing.

Know Your Traffic Language
You should be aware of the different terms used to describe
web site traffic, so as not to be confused about your web site
visitors. Here are the main terms used:

Visit – these are all requests made by a specific user to the
site during a set period of time. The visit is ended if a set
period of time (say 30 minutes) goes by with no further
accesses. Users are identified by cookies, username or
hostnames/ip addresses

Hit – this is a request to the server for a file not a page.
Your page can be made up of different files, such as graphic
files, audio files or css and javascript files, resulting in a
number of hits for that page. Each of these requests is called a
hit.

Counting hits is not the same as tracking pageviews. It takes
multiple hits to view a page.

Pageview/Impression – this is the number of times a page is
accessed as a whole.

Unique View - A page view by a unique person within a 24 hour
period.

Referrer - A page that links to your site. By looking at your
referrers will tell you who's linked to your site. This can be
particularly valuable for seeing where your search engine
traffic is coming from.

User Agent - This refers to the software used to access your
site. Sometimes known as a "browser" or "client", the term user
agent can describe a PHP script, a browser like Internet
Explorer, or a search engine spider like GoogleBot. If you can
identify what software is being used to access your site, you'll
be able to tell if users are abusing it, and when the search
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Ways to Track Your Visitors

1. Counters – these are heavily used on web sites by newbies but
appear unprofessional. It is very common to go to a page and see
something like "You are visitor number 12345 to this page".
These numbers cannot be trusted as the page designer has the
ability to seed the base number or to alter the counter such
that it adds more than 1 each time.

2. Trackers – tracking software details the path a visitor takes
through your Website, so they do more than just count your
traffic: they track it. Tracking software tells you more than
just the number of visitors -- it can break visitor statistics
down by date, time, browser, page viewed, referrer, and
countless other values.

Examples:
Hitbox
Sitemeter
Extreme-DM

Counters and Trackers often require you to place a button or
graphic on your site in exchange for the free use of their service,
which is not ideal for most site owners. So try to avoid using
these services unless you don't have the ability or expertise to
execute tracking scripts of any kind on your own server.

3. Using Your ISP’s Statistical Package
Your Internet Service Provider (ISP) keeps log files which record
every single "hit" (request for a Web page or graphic) on your Web site.

Analyzing log data can give you a good idea of where your site
visitors are coming from, which pages they are visiting, how
long they stay, and which browsers they are using. Before
signing on with a hosting company, make sure they offer access
to raw log files. Even if you don't need them immediately,
sooner or later you'll be glad to have them.

There are also different types of log files - access, referrer,
error, and agent are the primary ones.

Here is a sample of a raw access log file entry:

Access log
Analyzing the access log will give you information
about who visited your site, which pages they visited, and how
long they stayed on the site. This is useful information in
determining whether or not your site is working as you intend.

The record below shows the visitor's IP number or hostname, date
and time of the request, the command received from the client,
the status code returned, the size of the document transferred,
and the browser and operating system the visitor was using.

nas-112-52.slc.navinet.net - - [29/Jan/2000:17:17:12 -0500] "GET
page.html HTTP/1.1" 200 23443
"http://www.mydomain.com/page.html" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible;
MSIE 5.01; Windows 98)"

Referrer Log
The referrer log contains referral information - the source that
referred the visitor to your site. If the referrer was a search engine,
you will also find the keywords that were entered to find your
site - very useful information. Here are some example records. The record
below shows that the visitor followed a link from somedomain.com
to the index page of the site.

http://www.somedomain.com/page.html -> /

This record shows that the visitor came to my site from a search
engine link. Notice the keyword data is included in the record.

http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=design+tips -> /

Agent Log
This log provides information on which browser and operating
system was used to access your site.

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible;MSIE 5.01; Windows 98)

Error Log
The error log obviously provides a record of errors generated
by the server and sent back to the client. The record below shows
the type of server, date and time of the error, client identification,
explanation of the error code generated by the server, and the path to the
file that caused the error.

apache: [Sun Jan 30 10:09:57 2000][error] [client 195.238.2.162]
File does not exist:/u/web/mydomain/favicon.ico

As you can see, log files contain a wealth of information about
how your visitors are using your site. Now we will talk about how
you get the relevant data extracted from the log files and compiled
into a useable format.

4. Web Traffic Analysis Software
These are programs that analyze your server logs and then create
traffic reports accordingly. The quality of the reports generated will
depend on what software you actually use. Some log analyzers are
free and come preinstalled on many hosting accounts, while others
can cost a good deal of money.

Examples:
Webalizer
WebTrends

Webalizer (free)
The Webalizer is a fast, FREE, web server log file analysis
program which produces usage statistics in HTML format
for viewing with a standard web browser. The results are
presented in both columnar and graphical format, which
facilitates interpretation. Yearly, monthly, daily and hourly
usage statistics are presented, along with the ability to
display usage by site, URL, referrer, user agent (browser),
search string, entry/exit page, username and country.

Here's an example of the Web Usage Statistics:
http://www.webalizer.com/sample/index.html

WebTrends ($495)
The Web Trends Analyzer produces essential reports on
web site visitor patterns, referring sites, visitor paths and
demographics. You can learn, for example, which sites
and keyword searches have referred the largest number of
visitors to your site.

It presents data, detailed and in-depth, in an organized and
concise tabular format with full-color graphs.

This Log Analyzer is priced at $495 and is licensed for a single
web server hosting content with a maximum of 50 domains.

Conclusion
Web traffic statistics provide very valuable information about your
web site. You can make better marketing decisions through them
telling you:
Which Web pages are most popular and which are least used.

Who is visiting your Web site.

Which Web browsers to optimize your Web pages for.

Which Web search engines are most useful to you, and which are the least useful.

Where errors or bad links may be occurring in your Web pages.

Web traffic analysis allows you to determine what marketing
strategies are successful, then to change them accordingly, to
boost your web traffic and sales.
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Herman Drost is a Certified Internet Webmaster (CIW)
owner and author of iSiteBuild.com
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