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Book VIII
Chapter 1
Managing Your
Servers
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Managing a Remote Site
✦ You get a nice batch of extras. The free service comes with FTP and
e-mail support and also a MySQL database.
✦ Customer support is excellent. Most free hosting services offer no
customer support. Freehostia provides good support, even to the free
services. (I asked a couple of questions before anyone there knew that I
was writing this book, and I was impressed with the speed and reliability
of the responses.)
Choose whichever hosting service works for you. If you find a free hosting
service that you really like, upgrade to a paid service. Hosting is a reasonably
cheap commodity, and a quality hosting service is well worth the investment.
Managing a Remote Site
Obviously, having a hosting service isn’t much fun if you don’t have pages
there. Fortunately, there are a lot of ways to work with your new site.
Using Web-based file tools
Most of the time, your host has some sort of Control Panel that looks like the
one shown in Figure 1-6.
Figure 1-6:
This Control
Panel
allows you
to manage
your site
remotely.
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