You Decided on a Website Now What
You next step is for you to decide on which website hosting service provider. There are a great many companies out there that can host your website. It is economically infeasible for you to host your own website through a home provider. It takes an internet connection that is always on, the bandwidth on your service to allow multiple users at the same time as well as your computer being on all the time. And, of course, you will need a very good firewall software and virus protection software program. You will have to do all the coding and computer maintenance and contact the domain registry service and give them the website coding information to point to your webpages.
A hosting provider will do all of that for you. Then all you have to do is chose one that is within your price range, have a lot of free services included, register the domain for you and renew it each year, gives you enough space to allow your web to grow and have 99% up-time. You do not realize how much space you will need for a website until you run out. Before deciding on a hosting provider you should read articles about hosting providers on the internet, ask friends and coworkers and articles in magazines. You can be charged by the month, quarter or year. You will sometimes be asked if you want a windows server or a linux server. Either of these will have their own advantages but if you are looking for more free services or software products then try Linux servers. I use two different hosting providers but find that www.godaddy.com fits my needs the best.