How to upload your website on your own domain?

After successfully creating a website, you want to publish your website to the internet. In this blog, we are going to learn how to publish or upload a website to the internet in 6 easy steps.

Buy a domain name
Buy a web hosting service
Choose a website upload method
Upload your website files
Import database for your website
Check the website

1. Buy a domain name

Buy a domain name and a web hosting service

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First thing first, in order to host any website the first and the most important step is to get a domain name. A domain name is an address that people type in a browser URL to reach your website. Anyone can buy a domain name. You need to visit a domain registrar like Mastodomain, GoDaddy, or any registrar. Search for a domain name you want to buy and pay a fee. A domain name should be unique and accurately represents your business or portfolio for that matter. You can buy any domain name that is not registered yet and need to have a valid domain suffix.

2. Buy a web hosting service

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After you have got your domain name, you need space in the internet to store your website. There are many web hosting provider in the market like Mastodomain hosting, Blue Host, HostGator and many more. Web hosting are of different types like Shared Hosting, Virtual Private Server (VPS), Dedicated Server Hosting etc. Based on your requirements you choose the right hosting for your website. Almost all the hosting provider provides the same kind of control panel with almost same settings. Once you buy a web host you point your domain to your host then when you enter your domain in the browser it should redirect to your website. At this point it will show empty page or will show the page your host had configured.

3. Choose a website upload method

Now, you need to choose the website upload method to the internet. There are many ways to upload website to the web server like File manager, FileZilla or any FTP application, WordPress Uploader if you are developing a WordPress site. Today, we are using File Manager as it is the most easiest option.

Go To cPanel and click on file manager in the Files Section

Go to public_html folder, This is the root folder where your website index is uploaded

4. Upload your website files

Its time for us to upload the website files to server. Make sure you publish all the files to the public_html or root folder based on your host as visitor will be redirected to this folder when they visit your site. To upload make a zip of the website files and use the upload button at the top of the page.

On clicking upload new page will open where you upload the zip file and in the public_html or root folder refresh to see the zip file. Now right click on the zip and click extract to extract all the files.

5. Upload database for your website

If your website also uses a database, you need to import it too.

In the cPanel go to MySql datatbases and create a new database.
Go to phpMyAdmin and import the database from import section
Update the MySql databases details in your configuration file in your code

6. Check the website by visiting your domain

Once everything is done and domain is successfully pointed to your site. That’s it you can see your brand new website up and running.

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