Question:
I’m a newbie to this whole “web hosting” stuff.
I am going to buy my own domain. The purpose for the website:
-the service would allow me to upload the files in bulk and would be easily accessible to all clients
-with my own domain
-i want the website to load quickly
-also be able to send emails from that domain (lets say the website is: www.greatestwebsite.com, so when I send e-mails it the email address is: support@greatestwebsite.com, something like that).
-maybe allow the clients to have an account on the website (probably wont do it)
-something that would allow me to put a lot of files
-i don’t want a cap of how many visits the website can have
-maybe put some ads on the website to make money (that’s if I get a lot of hits)
-may be put pics and do little blog
as you can see I’m totally new to this, but i am certainly a fast learner. So any tutorials that you think might help me.

Thanks for any help

Answer:

Sounds like you did your homework.  You’ll get all of that with a shared hosting account with unlimited web space and bandwidth.  If you want to put a lot of files on the account, you’ll need a plan that doesn’t limit inodes.  Inodes are index nodes.  Simply put, they are all the files on your account.  Could be web pages, images, emails, etc.  Most hosts limit the file count.  There are 3 providers that I know of that have no inode limits:

• iPage
• Arvixe
• Cirtex

All of them also have software installers in the control panel so you can install a blog.

You can also place advertising on your site to make money.  If you have a Google Adsense account, Google Webmaster Tools can integrate with your account so you can gather all kinds of stats.

You’ll be able to set up email accounts on your domain.  To access email, you can do it by browser or configure an email client like Windows Mail or Mozilla Thunderbird.

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