Beginner's guide: Choosing a domain name and hosting

This is a pure tutorial for beginners. Experienced users please avoid reading this to avoid making a fool of yourself.

These are actually two questions: how to choose a domain name and how to choose a host. Let’s talk about them separately below.

1. How to choose a domain name

There are three aspects:

1. What kind of domain name to choose depends mainly on your own preference. There are many domain name suffixes now, so choose one for yourself, short and meaningful.

2. Where to buy the domain name? It is recommended to go to a foreign registrar. Basically, all the domain names of Host Encyclopedia are placed on NameSilo. The price is reasonable, and privacy protection is provided for free . It also supports Alipay payment.

Details: Namesilo: Free whois protection, reasonable domain name prices

3. How to use it is actually domain name resolution. You need to know the host's IP address and then record it. As shown below:

2. How to choose a host

Judging from the current situation in the hosting industry, it seems that VPS has become the mainstream, with virtual hosting serving as an auxiliary. For individual users, VPS is actually not expensive now and provides great autonomy, so it is recommended to use VPS.

1. VPS platform selection
VPS has different virtual platforms. It is recommended to use KVM VPS. If there are special requirements, use Windows VPS.

2. VPS selection

The most important thing is stability . Isn’t it annoying that the website is inaccessible from time to time?

Second, speed. The sooner the better.

Again, don’t price it too high.

Based on the above, you can check the VPS used in the host encyclopedia: self-use host.