Having websites is not as easy as updating or maintaining your blog. Blogs as you know, are hosted on special platforms, for example: Blogger, Wordpress. You can even host your own blog, but that too falls under the category of setting-up your own net-related site. But hosting your website is a completely different aspect of the Internet. Creating a website is basically a collaboration of several elements that come together to create your specific website. There are many free web hosting services online, but in return for their free services, they will have a suffix of their hosting service's name added to your domain name. Your domain name being the address of your site, for example: www.yoursite.freewebhosting.com

It is impossible and also equally illegal to get a domain name for FREE, without a suffix attached to it. Please do not resort to such methods, and pay for your domain name legibly. Yes, for getting independent domain names with no suffixes, you must pay money online, and get it from a domain hosting service.

But before you get a domain name for your website, you have to get your files, images, HTML documents (yes, you have to write your own codes for your website or create ones in Dreamweaver and upload them) and all those things organized and ready for uploading. Once you've done that, select a good website hosting service online.

Like I said, getting a web hosting service too has to be done legally and most of the services with the best offers are pro accounts, and you have to pay money to get them. There are also free web hosting services like the one I frequently use and also recommend, which is: Zymic.com

For premium web hosting services, you can find good ones online by searching.

There are many ways to upload your files to your web hosting account. Some of the ways are by: FTP (File Transfer Protocol), Uploading it directly using your account's File Manager, or by simply creating the website on the account's online website builder (if there is one).

FTP, as mentioned above, stands for File Transfer Protocol. What it is, is a direct connection to your web hosting account, to which you can upload your files you want for your website. You don't need to manage it, just randomly upload the files as you wish. If you want to edit or delete some of these files, you can gain access to your web hosting account using FTP, and directly delete it or directly edit it. But there a few perks to getting FTP access and using it.

Some FREE web hosting services do not provide an FTP account, but do have an online File Manager. With FTP, you can actually have a much greater control with your website and how you want it to be linked with each other file. With an online File Manager, you are restricted by the software that uploads your files, some may be good and advanced whereas some may be just plain bad. 

Considering you actually have an FTP account, you first need to receive your FTP credentials first. They are your FTP Username, Host, Password and Port no (the Port no. is usually irrelevant, but the rest are extremely important to gaining access to your account). You will usually get the required information once you register for a FTP account with your web hosting service. 

Once you've gained access to your FTP account, your home-page file, or the main HTML document you want the website to open to should be renamed to 'index.html' or 'index.htm'. 

That's all there is to it. Once you've done this, you can update and create a website of your own! So enjoy it the most!

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