Add a Chat Room to Your Website

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Chat rooms are a cool addition to your website, but you should also know that they may bog down a web server...especially if it there's a lot of traffic. 

So if you know your room will be getting lots of visitors, make sure you have a web host like Powweb that can handle the bandwidth.

What You Need to Create a Chat Room

Before you install a chat room on your web server, you need to ensure that your web hosting company provides the right kind of platform.

Almost all paid hosting plans provide what you need. For example, Website Palace's hosting plan comes with a pre-installed chat room script that you can install with the click of a button (free web hosts do not provide this.)

So all you would do is login to your hosting account, go to the area where the free applications are located, and instruct your host to install the script and create your chat room.

Your chat room will be up and running in no time.

Gone are the days where you have to download a script, configure, upload and launch. Hosting has come a long way and installing a chat script is no longer the headache it used to be.

Chat Room Setup Overview

So let me back up a bit. All you need to setup a chat room is a domain name (yoursite.com) and a web host. Stay away from free hosting because you will not have the rights to install a chat room.

If you don't already have a domain and host, you can go to Website Palace and sign up for both. Once your hosting account is active, just login to your account and go to the Applications tab located in the "Hosting" section.

Browse the scripts until you find the chat script you want. Click "Install" and your chat room script will be installed instantly.

Good luck and happy chatting!