Step 1 – Set It Up

Easy Domain Name

Register a unique domain name

The domain name is the name of your website.  It is usually prefixed with a “www” and ends with a number of extensions with the most popular being .com.  Such as www.EasyWebsiteShop.com.  Think of the domain name as the name of your business.  The nice thing about domain names is that they are unique to the entire world.  Which makes the name unique to your business as well.  We recommend that you register your domain using several extensions.  For instance, if your domain is www.MyWeb.com, someone else could register www.MyWeb.org, or www.MyWeb.net.  These other extensions are considered unique to each other.  So if you want to protect the uniqueness of your domain, register it using all the major extensions including .com, .org, .net, and .info.  There are many other extensions you may want to consider also.  See the domain registration page for more.

For countries other than the US, there are domain extensions unique to your country, such as .UK for the United Kingdom, .TH for Thailand, etc.

Your unique domain name can also be used as a unique email address.  So if you have a common name and have a difficult time finding a unique email address, having your own unique domain solves that problem.  For instance, if your domain is www.MyWeb.com, your email address can be Bob@MyWeb.com.

Click here for step by step instructions to register a domain name.

Registering a domain name is just the first step, you still need a place to put your web site.

Easy Website Hosting

Set up a Hosting Account

The domain is just a name.  Just like if you had a retail store, first you need a name, second you need a location to put your store.  The hosting account buys you space on a web server to hold all your website information, files, images, etc.  The type of hosting account you buy will depend on what you will be doing with your website.  For instance, if you are creating a blog, you need an account that will support WordPress or whatever blog software you plan to use.  If you plan to sell merchandise on your website and you want a shopping cart with credit card and shipping features, then you need a hosting account that will support that.  If your website will requiredatabase features, then you need hosting with MySQL or MS Access.

The web server your website sits on is connected to the world so everyone in the world can access your website.  BUT, the company that supports your web server and hosting account must also provide 24/7 support, data protection services such as backing up your data regularly, redundant server support so if a server goes down, other servers are there to keep your website going, etc.  Easy Website Shop provides some of the largest data centers in the world with 24/7 support, total Bandwidth, 1 GB super fast network connections, backup, redundancy, and guarantees 99.9% server availability.  Easy Website Shop offers the best, the most convenient, and competitively priced hosting options.  Our prices may not be the cheapest, but we are the best.  Don’t sacrifice your website by using a cheap service.  In this business, you truly get what you pay for.

Do not purchase a hosting account if you plan to use the Easy Do It Yourself Website tool (Website Tonight).  Hostng services are free with this tool.

Click here for step by step instructions to purchase and set up your hosting account.

Easy Email Account

Set up your Email Account(s)

If you want to receive email using your domain name, then you need to set up your email account(s).  If you purchased a hosting plan from Easy Website Shop, then you received up to 1,000 email accounts free.

Your email address can be any name you want to use since it is unique to your domain.  For instance, you can have Bob@MyWeb.com, and/or Sales@MyWeb.com, and/or Support@MyWeb.com, and/or CustomerService@MyWeb.com, etc.  You can also set up one email address to be a “Catch All” account so if someone sends an email to a invalid account at your domain, it will go to the catch all account.  The email accounts can have a auto responder so an email reply is automatically sent back.

Click here for step by step instructions for setting up email accounts.

For more details on setting up a Windows Hosting account Click here

For more details on setting up a Linux Hosting account Click here