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# Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site

Once you have registered your domain name, constructed your Web site, and purchased a hosting package from your hosting service provider, you can:

- Publish your site to your web space on the provider's server,
- Deploy databases and applications that your web server will be using,
- Secure data transfer with Secure Sockets Layer encryption and restrict access to web server resources with password protection.

In this chapter:

Creating and Publishing Your Site

Previewing Your Site

Configuring ASP.NET (Windows Hosting)

Setting PHP Version for a Domain (Windows Hosting)

Deploying Databases

Accessing Data From External Databases (Windows Hosting)

Configuring Data Source Names for Adobe ColdFusion (Windows Hosting)

Installing Applications

Using IIS Application Pool (Windows Hosting)

Securing Online Transactions on Your Site With SSL Encryption

Restricting Bandwidth Usage for Sites

Restricting the Amount of Simultaneous Connections to Sites

Protecting Sites From Bandwidth Stealing (Windows Hosting)

Restricting Access to Web Server's Resources With Password Protection

Setting File and Directory Access Permissions (Linux Hosting)

Setting File and Directory Access Permissions (Windows Hosting)

Organizing Your Site Structure With Subdomains

Setting Up Additional Domain Names for a Site (Domain Aliases)

Using Virtual Directories (Windows Hosting)

Hosting Personal Web Pages on Your Web Server

Setting Up Anonymous FTP Access to the Server

Customizing Web Server Error Messages (Linux Hosting)

Customizing Web Server Error Messages (Windows Hosting)

Customizing DNS Zone Configuration for Your Domain

Serving Your Site with External Domain Name Servers

Changing Web Hosting Type from Physical to Forwarding