Pls Advice, Hosting for the 1st Time

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Hi,

Need to start website for my business. I am totally new to this, so please guide how to start with the same.

1. From where to book name ?

2. Who will design the website ?

3. What would be booking / designing charges ?

4. Who will host, what will they charge ?

Please mention if i am missing out on anything / any other expense.

Want to keep expenses as low as possible.

I am looking for a domain name - www.marblemoments.com (pls check)

Thanks a lot
 
If you are totally new to this and don't have the confident you could manage every thing. I would suggest you to take the help from a local developer to setup every thing for you.

Btw www.marblemoments.com is already taken look at here: https://www.namechea...l=&type=single

You need to take care of many things, like your website / business goals, preferences (color, fonts, programming etc.), content management system / shopping cart information etc.
 
You can buy domain from bigrock and hosting plan from Hostdime India.

Regarding the designing. You can go to WHT and give them your Requirement and they will tell the price according to it. Generally depends on the number of pages and stuff. So basically 5page+Main page WOULD cost you $180-220.
 
swatkats said:
You can buy domain from bigrock and hosting plan from Hostdime India.

Regarding the designing. You can go to WHT and give them your Requirement and they will tell the price according to it. Generally depends on the number of pages and stuff. So basically 5page+Main page WOULD cost you $180-220.
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Hi, thanks for the reply. I checked for www.marblemoments.com, try opening in browser, it says Backorder this Domain !! what does that mean, is there anyway to get this name ?

Wow ! that would exceed my budget, i have a friend though who designs website, would contact him to design it for me. Leaving the design part, i need to do the following -

1. Finalise on name & order the same on bigrock.

2. Host the same on Hostdime India.

Is the above combination the best available at decent price ?
 
1)You can book the name from any domain registrar. The cost for .com's vary between Rs.400-1200. You can get them for as low as Rs.100 from Godaddy.com, if you manage to get it in one for their monthly promotions. If you want to keep your contact details private that costs a little bit more.

2)Anyone can design the site. You need to decide what the purpose of the site is first. Is it just an information site, with only a few pages that'll never be updated? Or do you want to use it to sell stuff online? Or do you want to keep updating the content so that you're site's always current? Do you want to interact with your customers? Do you want your customers to interact with themselves?

3)The cost'll vary, depending on what you want, from Rs.10,000 to over a lakh. If you have the time and inclination, you can do it yourself for free using Wordpress.

4)Decent shared hosting costs about Rs.2500/yr. Good shared hosting costs about Rs.4500. You can get okayish shared hosting along with the domain name for about Rs.800 from hostable.com. But that offer may have strings attached, like not being able to transfer your domain/renewing at a higher cost and/or not being able to change your webhost.

If you're paying for designing the site, your designer will advise you about the hosting and domain name. Listen to him/her, but buy it yourself.
 
^^^ Thanks for the useful information -

www.marblemoments.com is available but as Backorder on Bigddday, whats the procedure for that ?

www.marblemoments.in is available for 99.99 Rs for 1 year but 449/year for 10 years, why is that so ??

Bigrock giving lot of free stuff like -

FREE! with every domain (worth Rs. 5000)

  • 2 Email Accounts - you@marblemoments.in
  • Domain Forwarding
  • Privacy Protection *
  • Mail Forwarding
  • URL Masking
  • DNS Management
  • Domain Theft Protection
  • Bulk Tools
  • Easy-to-use Control Panel
  • 24/7 Local Support

Is this just marketing or really worth it ??? ^^^

Lets say i block the name tonight, what would be my next step. ?

Thanks
 
I would also suggest checking out some of the offers provided by outpowerhosting.com

Just started a new website with them. The rates seem reasonable to me.
 
If you tell me your budget, I can suggest according to it.
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Thanks all, to be very honest, i want to start with least. You give me budget in which i can get decent setup. Don't want to spend much..

Would require the following -

1. Upload pictures ( 100 + )

2. Taking order from customer

3. Online secure payment gateway ( as an add on later on )
 
It's not about uploading pictures. Your site shouldn't create muchload on a shared hosting. Anyways to be honest there are many free E-commerce softwares where you can easily upload the pic and can write description of it and regarding payment gateway there are lot of them of which Ccavenue is too good which charges 4%per transaction from you and 7k per annum maintenance charges/set up charge. This Payment gateway needs to be integrated in to the shopping software.

Initially it would cost you 500for a domain + 200pm for hosting plan from Hostdime(do host on indian servers to get best out of seo).

If are good at cpanel and stuff then you can manage free Ecomm software. Or else hire some one. :-)
 
I'd suggest HostGator for hosting. Their customer service is top notch, you get Indian servers & they offer very good uptime guarantee. Since it is a e-commerce site, the should work very fast & up all the time. Good customer support, because you're newbie.
 
Buy your hosting and domain separately. Do not buy bundled packages.

If you shift hosts, shifting the domain might be a nuisance.

If your hosting subscription expires or you don't plan to renew for a while, your domain will lapse and some cyber-squatter may grab it.

Even if your website isnt active, you can still have your domain name under your control. You can always get web hosting, but you cannot always get the same domain name.

coolcatric said:
www.marblemoments.com is available but as Backorder on Bigddday, whats the procedure for that ?
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It means someone else owns the domain for now.

But it has just expired, so hopefully the owner may not renew and it could be up for grabs.

Creation date: 18 Feb 2010 18:21:20

Expiration date: 18 Feb 2012 18:21:20

www.marblemoments.in is available for 99.99 Rs for 1 year but 449/year for 10 years, why is that so ??
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Promo rates (99/yr) are only for the first year.

Bigrock giving lot of free stuff like -

FREE! with every domain (worth Rs. 5000)
  • 2 Email Accounts - you@marblemoments.in
  • Domain Forwarding
  • Privacy Protection *
  • Mail Forwarding
  • URL Masking
  • DNS Management
  • Domain Theft Protection
  • Bulk Tools
  • Easy-to-use Control Panel
  • 24/7 Local Support

Is this just marketing or really worth it ??? ^^^
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Only Privacy Protection. The rest are usually free everywhere. Email accounts can be added with Google Apps.

2. Taking order from customer
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How many orders are you expecting? If not too many, just ask them to mail you to place orders or have a simple mailer form.

No offense but you sound like you're trying your luck with putting your business online. If your main revenue isn't going to be through your website, work on a simple pleasing design rather than attempt a technical tour de force. If you're serious about an e-commerce platform, then asking 'whats the cheapest i can get' is the wrong way to start. What will you tell your customers if their information gets compromised? I know people who have wasted a lot of time trying to do a lot of things for as little as possible from their friends, family, college students (most Indian web designers are rubbish) and ended up with a poor copied design and faulty back-end. Obviously they didn't last more than a year. This isn't to discourage you, but to remind you that the Internet isn't forgiving if you don't have a proper game plan.
 
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