What Indeed is Web Hosting

If you have made a decision to develop your own web site, but are not quite sure about what a website is and are not familiar with the term "web hosting", this article is dedicated to clarifying these notions in plain terms.

What precisely is a website?

A website is a collection of web pages gathered in a systematic fashion. It has a special address, also called a URL (Uniform Resource Locator). A website may be comprised of only one single web page and sometimes may even have as many as one thousand pages.

What is a hosting server?

A web hosting server permits you to upload your site onto it. In some instances, there might be even 1000's of sites on one single web hosting server. The hosting server basically is a computer with specific hardware, which is held in a data center facility with special cooling systems, whose mission is to safeguard the smooth performance of the machine and all the sites accommodated on it.

In short, a web hosting server will be indeed a launch pad when the time arrives for you to launch your web site. It could be any type of site - a corporate web site containing multiple webpages, or a site, which contains only several webpages and which you have created just for your pals and family members.

You've made a decision about what your site will be, now what?

As soon as you have decided what type of website you desire to set up, the next move is to discover what sort of web hosting service you must pick for your web project. Basically, there are two kinds of website hosting services - free-of-charge hosting services and professional paid web hosting services. The cost-free website hosting solution is typically used by users that do not own a business-related website.

Pluses and minuses of the free-of-charge website hosting solution

You will not get many options with a charge-free web hosting package. Features like bandwidth, RAM memory and web server disk drive space are restricted and insufficient for a complex e-store or a business web site, or even for a website with a lot of graphics. In addition, there are a lot of banner ads embedded on your website by the web hosting accounts provider. These adverts occupy a lot of space on your site and are rather irritating.

Shared website hosting

The paid shared website hosting services tend to be more dependable and offer plenty of sophisticated features beside the high-quality web hosting server that will host your web site and its content. Still, it is essential to find out which features your web site needs prior to selecting your web hosting package. You should not rush and wind up purchasing something that your site does not need.

Find your web hosting packages provider

It is not hard to find a web hosting packages provider. You have to simply carry out an online survey in order to find a web hosting company that fulfills your site's demands. Before you take your actual choice, have a gaze at the specifications of the packages supplied by the hosting vendors that have attracted your interest. We, for instance, are among the best web hosting vendors on the market nowadays. The enormous variety of services and our prices are what renders us an appealing choice. Yet, you must confirm what sort of web hosting service you require and whether the price corresponds to your budget. Furthermore, you must always remember to double-check the web hosting supplier's ToS prior to signing up to make sure that your website is not abusing them.

Signing up for a website hosting account

Once you have found out what features are most important for your web site, the next move is to sign up for an account with the hosting distributor of your choosing. You will gain all the needed tools for handling your website files and databases. With us, for example, you will receive a hosting Control Panel, which has domain, web site, database and mail account management areas. You log in the web hosting Control Panel using your unique user name and password, which grants you secure access to the portion of the web hosting server where your site will be located.

Uploading your website

You can either upload your web site through FTP client software or, as is with the majority of web hosting companies, via an online tool that is integrated within the hosting Control Panel. With us, the File Manager is pretty user-friendly and offers features similar to those encountered in Windows Explorer, which renders file manipulation exceptionally easy. We offer additionally a site building tool and a PHP script installer, which you can use to develop your web site if you have no programming abilities and are making your very first steps in web design. The web-based web site building tool, whose name is SiteStudio, will also save you the time and effort of creating a website on your PC and then uploading it via an FTP client application or the File Manager interface.