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So you want to start your first Amazon Store but you don’t know how to install a script? Or maybe you have never owned or run a website before. Not to worry – these beginners guides are made for you and will get you up to speed in no time.

Building and running websites is not as complicated as you may think and we will cover everything you need to know in these guides. You will acquire many new skills that you will use again and again when building your internet empire.

If you feel overwhelmed or need clarification on anything, do remember that there is always help via our support or the Fresh Store Builder private forum.

See our guides to the right to get started!

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1. Co je potřeba?

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Co je potřeba?

There are a few basic things required to start your own website. In this guide we give an overview of Domain Names, Web Hosting and what you will need to get a website up and running.

In order get a website up and running you need 3 basic elements:

  • A Domain Name – the address of your site, for example www.golfclubs.com
  • Website Hosting – somewhere for your site to „live“ that your domain name points to
  • An Actual Website – in our case, the Fresh Store Builder files

A simple analogy of these elements could be your house. Before you build a house you need an address (domain name). Then you need an actual area of land where you will build the house (website hosting). Finally you need to actually build the house on your land (the actual website).

Lets look a little closer at each element.

Domain Name

A domain name is simply the „address“ of your website. Every website you know has a unique domain name that you type into your internet browser to get to. To get your website online, you will need to decide on a domain name to use and then make sure it’s available to register. For example, www.golfclubs.com is a domain name someone might use for a Fresh Store Builder site selling golf clubs. For our purposes you will likely want something a little more specific; choosing a domain name is covered in a seperate guide.

Once you have registered a domain name, you will then configure it to „point“ to your hosting account. This is so when people type in or click to your domain name, they will see your website when it is done.

You have probably seen quite a variety of different types of domain names…most ending with a „.com“ but probably also many „.net“ or „.org“ or any of the many other available „extentions“ or TLDs (top level domains). For your site you will likely want the „.com“ for US websites and .co.uk for UK sites, for reasons we cover in more detail in other guides.

When you register a domain name you are paying for the right to use it for a period of time, typically in 1 year increments. A domain name should cost roughly $10 a year. For more information on registering a domain name and our recommended places to register, please see our Hosting and Domain Name Recommendations.

Web Hosting

A web hosting company (known as a „Web Host“, „Hosting“ or simply „Host“) provide you a place for your website to live. You typically pay monthly or yearly and the cost is roughly $8 per month. You can usually have more than one website on your host account for the same price.

The cost of your hosting will depend essentially on how busy your website is. When you are first starting a website, you are fine using the cheaper packages but keep in mind you may need to upgrade your hosting as your site gets busier. This is because the more visitors you have to your site per day the more resources you will use (i.e. bandwidth and processing power).

When you choose a web hosting account you may find that there are different types of host available, such as basic „shared hosting“, virtual private servers and fully dedicated servers. Each comes with a varying cost starting as low as a few dollars a month for basic shared hosting all the way up to many thousands of dollars a month for dedicated servers. For your first websites you will only need a basic shared hosting account to start. If you find you need more you can always upgrade.

When you sign up for a hosting account you may get a specific amount of hard drive space on your account. All this means is you have limited space for all the files of your website/s. In most cases, especially with our recommendations (see here), you will have more than enough space for all your sites.

Another important factor of your hosting account is allowed bandwidth. Each time a visitor loads your site they will use a certain amount of bandwidth. This costs your hosting company so in turn they charge you for bandwidth. Some hosting companies will offer unlimited bandwidth and others will offer much more than you will ever need, especially if you use our recommended hosts.

To understand bandwidth further, you must think about how large a file is. If a visitor was to view a picture on your website and that picture is 1mb in size then they will use 1mb of your hosting bandwidth to view it. All aspects of your website including the text, video and pictures contribute towards bandwidth use. Bandwidth use is less important these days although worth considering if you ever run sites with large files (such as video).

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2. Najít webhosting

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Najít Web Hosting

Here we take a look at how to get web hosting, what to expect and an introduction to how to manage your hosting with cPanel.

Ordering Web Hosting

When you have chosen a hosting company (see our recommended hosting companies) and decided on a hosting package (see our previous guide for more info – we recommend shared hosting to start with) you are now ready to order your hosting.

As with anything you buy, be sure to take a look at key things like refund policies and terms of use. When you are happy continue through the signup process and order your hosting. You will typically get discounts for ordering 12 months of hosting instead of 1 month at a time, so that is worth keeping in mind.

At this stage you may be asked if you want to register a domain name. Our recommendation is to use a seperate company to register domain names as they are cheaper and if you wish to move hosting company it is less hassle to do so. As a rough guide domain names should cost around $10 per year to register (our next guide details purchasing domain names).

After you have ordered you will receive a welcome email with all your login information and important details. Be sure to keep this email even if you don’t understand everything in it – some of it you will need when you start building your website and some of it you might not need until later.

You may see some of the following information on your welcome email:

  • - Your hosting IP address, username and password
  • - Your FTP login information (usually the same as above)
  • - Your cpanel login information (usually the same as above)
  • - Your nameservers (needed for „Pointing“ your domain name to your hosting )
  • - Information on how to contact your hosting support if needed.
  • - Your hosts help files and FAQs.

About cPanel

You may have heard the term cPanel before. It is an admin area that is used to manage hosting accounts. In cPanel you can do all kinds of things related to your hosting such as setting up email addresses, editing files, creating databases and setting up cron jobs. We will cover these tasks in more detail when required, but is important to know that cPanel is the place to do it.

The majority of web hosting companies (including those that we recommend) use cPanel to allow their customers to manage the hosting accounts. Our guides assume that this is the case for you. If it is not and you are struggling with any aspect of these guides, please contact our support team.

cPanel can typically be accessed by visiting http://www.yoursite.com/cpanel/ where „yoursite.com“ is your actual domain name. If your domain name has not been pointed to your hosting this may not work, and their are usually alternative ways to access your cPanel.

Once inside cPanel you will see a variety of options as well as information on your hosting account such as bandwidth use, disk space use and number of doman names added. There are help guides inside cPanel if you wish to read further on a particular feature.