Shared Web Hosting U SERVICE. It is most commonly used type by the small businesses. It is easy to use, manage and affordable. Compare to free website hosting service, here you can have your own domain name. But the bad side of it, is there are multiple of users are sharing in one server. This might be the cause of traffic to the network because of different users in one server. And also has smaller storage capacity compare to other types.
(2). Get A Linux Plan - A Linux plan is more reliable and use up less resources than windows. A word of caution here though, unlike windows that is not case sensitive linux is, so make sure that you use all lower case letters in your file names to avoid any recognition problems.
Which all brings me back to what is Affordable Web Hosting? I have my pages hosted at GVO and I pay a higher monthly cost than if I used certain other cheaper hosts.
Most free CMS (Content Management System) like Wordpress, Joomla, drupal, written in PHP and need database to store the contents. You should choose web hosting plan that support database like MySQL. We recommend choosing web hosting plan with more than one database allowed (ex. five or ten). Who knows you need some try-out with different databases? If you just want to set up a blog, just find one of the free CMS mention earlier; most likely you'll stay with Linux and MySQL.
So you have your Shared Web Hosting UK site planned out. You know who you want to visit your site, what you want them to do when they get there, and have a pretty good idea how you want your site to look. Now it is time to give your site a name. For a web site that means "registering a domain name". Domain names can be registered pretty cheaply (from about $8 to $15 depending on the domain type).
Control Panel Control panel included in web hosting packages is an online web-based application that allows you to easily manage different aspects of your account. Most control panels will let you upload files, add email accounts, change contact information, set up shopping carts or databases, view usage statistics, etc.
Now this is just a brief overview of the basics to get started and i appreciate that there are other steps and tips to also consider that i used when i started building my own website. Hopefully this will help you to take that first step.