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HOSTING A PHP/MySQL
WEBSITE
How to host your PHP/MySQL website at less cost?
Created on 15th of December, 2009

2.
WHAT THIS IS NOT ABOUT?
 This presentation is NOT about
 HTML / PHP or any other web technology
 MySQL Database Concepts
 How to connect database with a web
site?
 A Prospectus of a Web Hosting Company
 Pay Per Click Systems
 Referral Gathering Presentation
 Making Money using internet.

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OUR ASSUMPTIONS
 Let us have the following assumptions about
our web site.
Nature of Web Site Database Driven
Database Used MySQL
Server Side Scripting PHP
No.of databases used Very few (1 preferably)
Site Activity Moderately Busy
Total size of files Preferably less than
100 Megabytes.

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OUR REQUISITES
 In order to run our website on the
world wide web, we need two things.
 These two things are the factors
which decide the cost, performance
and utility of your web site.
 They are:
 1. Hosting Service
 2. Domain Name

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Hosting Service
 Imagine, you are about to start a
coffee shop.
 What do you need in the first place?
 The answer is “SPACE” 
 Yes, you need a shop space to run
the business.
 You have to buy/rent a reasonable
amount of shop space.

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Hosting Service (contd…)
 Our First Requirement – “Hosting
Service” is the space for our web site
 Hosting means copying your web
site’s files to a computer which is
always connected to internet.
 This hosting computer is usually
called the “Server”.
 This server serves your web pages all
over the world.

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Domain Name
 Now, after establishing a coffee shop,
you would like to trademark your
shop name.
 For example, Let us assume our
coffee shop’s name is “Coffee Café™”
 If we trademark the name, then, no
other person can start a shop in the
name “Coffee Café™”
 It gives your shop an identity.

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Domain Name (contd…)
 Trademarking gives a authorised name to
your shop.
 Similarly, Domain Name gives a authorised
name to the files you have stored on a
hosting server.
 For, example, you may want to get a
domain name of myownsite.com for your
web site.
 In short, domain name is just an authorised
name (like yahoo.com, gmail.com) for your
web site.

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Server Requirements
 The Requirements of a Server:-
 Always (or most of the time) ON
 Very high RAM capacity to handle busy
traffic
 Internet connection with very large
bandwidth
 Logging facility to record all the requests.
 High Quality hardware to prevent failures.
 Preferably, a backup facility to retrieve the
files and data lost due to a crash.

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Buying Required Space
 Because of the stringent requirements, we
cannot afford to have a server at home.
 So, in order to host a web site, we have to
contact people who already have these
servers.
 And, buy/rent a certain amount of space on
the server’s hard disk to store our web
site’s files.
 Yes, this is similar to starting a shop. 

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The Cost Factor for Hosting
 The cost of the hosting space
depends upon how much space you
want.
 More the space, more is the cost.
 More the traffic expected, more is the
cost.
 More the facilities, more is the cost.
 More the support, more is the cost. 

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Types of Servers
 There are two types of servers:
 Static servers, which do not support any files
other than HTML, CSS, JS and Flash
 Dynamic servers, which provide a database
connection support, and server side
programming (like PHP, ASP, JSP) too.
 Naturally, dynamic servers cost more than
the static servers.
 The cost depends on cost of software for
the database access and language used for
server side programming.

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Hosting usually includes…
 Hosting service also includes the
following facilities most of the times:
 A Control Panel
 E-mail Facility
 Web Page Editing Facility
 FTP service
 File Manager to upload files via HTTP
 Statistics of traffic (web analytics)
 Sub-domain Management
 And much more…

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Free Hosting
 Some hosting providers provide
hosting services for free.
 This is possible due to the following
reasons:
 They display ads on your web pages. These
generate income to host your web site.
 They display ads on your control panel, but
not on your web pages.
 They use open-source technologies like
PHP/MySQL available free of cost.

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Some Popular Free PHP/MySQL
Hosts
 Justfree.com – No conditions, no ads
 X10hosting.com – Requires periodic
forum posting, no ads
 Heliohost.org – No conditions, high
quality features, bandwidth high.
 Izfree.com – No conditions, no ads
 Zymic.com – No conditions, no ads
 Freewebhostingarea.com – Popup Ads
present on your pages

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Sign up and sub-domain allocation
 Go to any free/paid hosting site.
 Complete registration (including email
verification, if any)
 Check your mailbox to know about
how to access your site.
 Usually, the hosters allocate a sub-
domain for your account username.
 For eg., your site can be accessed
from http://username.hostname.com

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Paid Hosting
 If you are very serious about your website,
then, opt for paid hosting
 Paid hosting has more security.
 The cheapest paid hosting service I have
seen is hostso.com (with great features
also) (around Rs.350/year)
 Usually, a credit/debit card or a paypal
account is needed to pay.
 Feel free to contact the support team of the
hoster to get details on modes of payment.

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Uploading Files
 Login to your control panel. (Details
can be found in mail from hoster)
 Go to file manager.
 Upload,rename,delete files from the
provided console.
 Some hosters provide FTP uploading
facility.
 Some hosters enable you to upload
zip files and extract them on server.

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Testing our website
 Go to the site URL found in the mail
from the hoster.
 You can view your web site from the
server.
 For MySQL database creation, use the
control panel database tools.
 To upload a backup of database from
your local system, use phpMyAdmin
found in Contol Panel.

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Buying a Domain Name
 Now that we have a hosting service, we
have to buy a domain name (similar to
Trademark)
 Many companies act as domain registrars,
who register domain names for people.
 They charge you on a per year basis.
 .com, .org, .net, etc (except .in) are
available for around Rs.450/year.
 .in domain is available for around
Rs.750/year.

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Some Popular Domain Registrars
 GoDaddy.com
 This is the most popular domain registrar.
 Krify.com
 Though this is not so popular, it is a reliable
service, dealing in Indian money.
 You can send Demand Drafts also to register a
domain.
 Many registrars can be found by Googling.
Try to get results that suit you.
 The price is not much different for different
domain registrars.

22.
Free Pseudo-Domain Names
 Some sites like co.cc offer you
subdomains like yourname.co.cc for
free. But, this looks like a top level
domain name.
 One more site is freedomain.co.nr
that gives you free domain name with
co.nr. But, you need to link back to
them on your home page.

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Linking Domain Name with Hosting
 Visit your hoster’s email or site to know about
the name of the “Name servers” of your
hosted web site.(eg: ns1.host.com)
 Check the mail from your domain registrar
and login to your domain administration
panel.
 Enter the name servers of your web site in
the “Name Servers” setting page of your
domain registrar.
 This can take up to 24 hours to come into
effect.
 Then, go to your domain name and you will
see your hosted website.

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Web Site Hosting Budget
 You can start a fully functional,
professional web site just at Rs.0 only
 Provided, you get a co.cc or co.nr domain
 Provided, you get a free hosting service
 For people who want a .com domain,
maximum budget is Rs.500 per year
(including postage, if any)
 Provided, you choose free hosting service
 For professionals, the minimum
budget is Rs. 1000 per year.

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Start Now!!!
 Then what? Start Now.
 Wish you a profitable and happy web
presence.
 Any query/suggestion can be mailed
to me.
 Thanks and Regards
Vivek Ganesan
vivek@vivekganesan.com
caliberoviv@gmail.com
DISCLAIMER: THE PRICES/DETAILS ARE ABOUT TO CHANGE ANYTIME.