What most people then do is to use the web browser to remember this login so that the next time they don’t have to retype the username/password.

Although this works very well it happens from time to time that the browser forgets or maybe you start using a new computer and therefore need to retype it.

So the first thing you need to do is to make a note of your account login details.

When you login you can access the ftp settings. You may need ftp to transfer files to the hosting space and so you should make a note of the ftp details, including:

• ftp address (url)
• username
• password

If you have installed WordPress then you will need to make a note of the admin password. Also don’t forget to change it to something that you can easily remember.

If you have just read the above and don’t know any of those details then you should find them out now as you never know when you might need them.

In addition most providers communicate via email only, and so the email address you used when you signed up is very important so make sure that you still have access to it.

Resources:

• Hosting 1and1
• Hosting Bluehost

Answer -Many ( not all) hosting packages support multiple domain name hosting on a single hosting package/account.

Some support unlimited domain name hosting and other restrict the number of domain names you can host on the package.

If it isn’t clearly stated in the hosting features then you have to assume that you can only host a single domain name.

Bluehost and 1and1 support unlimited domain names and is clearly stated in the package features (see screenshots below).

Anhosting limits you to 20 ( more than enough) and is also clearly stated.

Blue Host

1&1-UK

Anhosting

Who needs it and how it is implemented is discussed in more detail in The Multiple Domain and Website Hosting article on the main site.

Because you either don’t have a Web site yet or you haven’t told your domain name registrar what to do with you domain name he will give you a temporary Web Page with a default Under Construction notice Web page .

Most Domain Name registrars provide this facility as part of the registration fee.

If they didn’t then when you attempted to connect to the Web site you would get a browser error message saying domain not found which tends to imply that it doesn’t exist when you know that it does.

You may find that you will need to delete this web page before you go live with your real site. The page is usually called index.html.

Here is the question

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I have a question concerning websites. Free websites versus hosted sites. I see that on google, hosted websites tend to rank better than free sites.

Why? I am imagining that the top ranking sites (hosted) have, of course, had more effort put into them. If they had put the same effort into a free website, would they have the same ranking? If they had the same in and outbound links, wouldn\’t they attain the same ranking? I don\’t look at the address to a website when I visit it. I just concentrate on the content. Isn\’t that what the SEO crawlers do too? Free websites are so much more easy to build and to control.

I understand there are limitations, and that they have some ads and such on them, but does it really make a huge difference to my success if I use a free website service? I could really use a straight answer to this.

Thanks for the help,

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and the answer

I agree with your observations regarding search engines. Free websites seem not to be ranked well by the search engines. A couple of years ago searches would have pages from free sites e.g blogger.com in the first 10 results but I can’t remember the last time I saw that.
It has always been the case that search engines didn’t treat free sites (sites with free domain names) as seriously as standard domain names, but now they almost seem to completely ignore them.
Therefore if you are building a serious site and want to be found by the search engines go for your own domain name and paid hosting.
If there is functionality on the free site that you really need but can’t do yourself, you can build the paid site and use it to promote the free site.