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So you want to put your business on the web and you discover a minefield of different hosting companies all offering similar products with pseudonyms gallore and prices staring from nothing up to extorsion. What does it all mean and what should you be watching out for?

Web hosting is a fiercly competitive industry with hosting providers varying in size from individuals to global corporations. Choosing the right host can be a bit of a minefield. One piece of advice we can give is try to avoid buying your hosting from a reseller.

So you have just built a nice new website and you now need to upload it to your web hosting server to make it available for the world to see.

Sometimes you want to force certain pages on your website to be over an SSL encrypted web page such as confidential pages.

If you use cookies in your website then your browser will send cookies for every piece of content it retrieves from your domain. This causes unnecessary network traffic and reduces the performance of your web page.