What is Web Hosting?
What is Web Hosting? Web Hosts Explained For the Novice and Techno-Phobic
- Web hosting is the service that allows you to have a website on the Internet.
- The author likes to think of the author's hosting service as the author's site storage space, but it is on the web, and looked after by the author's web hosting company.
- A good hosting service runs their own server monitoring to ensure that your data is kept safe and that your hosted websites maintain maximum operational status.
- Once you have chosen a web hosting service you will need a domain before you see any web site you upload on to your hosted web space.
- Many web hosts provide domain registration services that allow you to buy and use your domain name, but be aware that their charges may be higher than hunting around for registration elsewhere.
- Don't let the idea of the cost of domains put you off starting a web site, Domains are very affordable, and registration is very simple.
- Shared website hosting permits more than one site to be hosted on the same server.
- The web hosts provide system administration on up to say 1,000 sites on the same server.
- The authors like the low cost and this is an economic solution, these types of sites typically cannot handle large amounts of storage or traffic.
- If you are successful with your site you may need to move up to using a dedicated server which a web host can buy for you and locate in their data centre.
- This will be a natural progression for any successful web site creator, and the cost will not normally be an obstacle as by the time your traffic rises so that you need a dedicated server, you will be able to make more than enough money from the site to pay for a dedicated and colocated server.
- A lot of the time spent in choosing a web host package will be consumed in assessing the bundle of features provided.
- Website-related software for creating and optimizing your web site is getting better and easier to use.
- Website hosting and editing has never been this easy, writing good looking pages, adding or deleting pages, changing navigation labels, and adding links wherever you need them, requires no special skills.
- As a consumer of web site hosting services since 1997, he has a great deal of experience from which he has provided consumer reports on more than a dozen web hosting services.
