What is Server or Hosting and Domain Name ?

The program you use on your computer takes up a certain amount of storage space, doesn't it? Even your computer's operating system (eg Windows) takes up a certain amount of space on your C or D local disk, right?

Similarly, imagine you are publishing a website.Images, texts or videos on your website must be stored somewhere, right? The storage space you will need for your website is called hosting.To set up and publish a website, you will first need a server where you can install Wordpress and then store content, images and videos.

You have purchased your server.You installed Wordpress in it.Then you upload your content, images and videos.You are ready to launch your website. But how will other people view your website?

Each server has an IP address.You can view websites by visiting these IP addresses.

For example, if you enter the IP address 172.217.22.196 in your browser's address box, the google.com site will appear.But memorizing the “172.217.22.196” IP address instead of google.com would be much more difficult, right? Here, DNS (Domain Name Server) service was established to make this work easier and to get rid of the necessity of memorizing IP addresses .Thus, instead of typing the IP address of a website.You can write the domain name and visit it.

Long story short, to have a Wordpress site, you need to own the server and domain.

You can rent your server and domain name from many hosting services.If you want to have a domain name and server with the lowest cost.You can meet this need with an average annual budget of 140 TL.

However, the cheap one can have a bad side of course.When renting a server, you need to pay attention to the technical features of that server.

Each server has values ​​such as read/write speed, CPU, RAM memory.These values ​​determine the speed of your site.The speed of a website is of great importance for both users and visitors.At the same time, the Google search engine pays a lot of attention to the speed of websites. If you have a slow website, your content will show less in the Google search engine.Therefore, the number of visitors and views will be lower.

Things to Consider When You Buying a Server or Hosting

When purchasing a server, you will come across many different price offers.To set up a site with Wordpress, it will be enough to have an economic cloud server.

However, for sites with a lot of traffic and advanced e-commerce sites, server features may be much more important.

• Disk Space: It is the total storage space of your server.It refers to the storage space that the texts, images and videos you will upload to your website, including the Wordpress content management system, will occupy.One of the important criteria is that the disk space is SSD storage.
• Bandwith: There are interactions between the user visiting your website and your site.As a result of these interactions, data transfers take place between your website and the visitor.Bandwith refers to the monthly limit of this data transfer.It is a very important statistical value for websites visited by many people.It is a value that is limited in other server types except Dedicated Hosting.
• Supported software and features of the server: For your website to have better functionality, it must support many programs.
• RAM: RAM memory is one of the critical features for your website to run fast.For websites with heavy media elements, RAM memory should be high.

• CPU: It is the central processing unit.It is another critical feature for your website to be fast.

Things to Consider When Buying a Domain Name

Care should be taken when choosing a domain name.The thing to note here is not where the domain name was taken from.To summarize, the following points should be considered when choosing a domain name;

• Get a short and concise domain name: When purchasing your domain name, please choose a domain name that will not be long.Thus, it will be memorable for visitors.For example, the domain name kinanurdu.com can be preferred instead of buying a domain name called kinanurducilikvetasarimcilik.com.The domain name mentioned here is just an example.It may have been purchased by someone else.
• Choose a domain name with the correct extension: It will be more correct for you to choose a domain name with the extension .COM, .NET, .ORG.Domain names with .XYZ, .CLUB and similar extensions are not welcomed by search engines.At the same time, visitors do not trust domain names with such extensions.
• Be careful not to use names and surnames in the domain name: If you are going to set up a simple and personal site, it is okay to include your name and surname in the domain name.However, you cannot create a brand equity with this type of domain name.

We talked about the points you should pay attention to when buying a server and domain name.Apart from these, it is entirely up to you which hosting service you choose when purchasing your server and domain name.But you need to be wary of hosting services that are cheap.The hosting service we can recommend you in this regard is GoDaddy.GoDaddy has higher prices compared to other hosting services.However, any slowdown or crash on their servers is very rare.