What Does Web Hosting Stand for?

If you have made a decision to make your own website, but are not quite sure about what a website is and are not familiar with the phrase "web hosting", this article is dedicated to defining these concepts in plain language.

What precisely is a web site?

A web site is a combination of webpages gathered in a systematic fashion. It has a unique web address, also called a URL (Uniform Resource Locator). A website may consist of only one single webpage and sometimes may even contain as many as 1000 webpages.

What is a web hosting server?

A hosting server permits you to upload your site onto it. In some cases, there might be even thousands of sites on one single web hosting server. The web hosting server basically is a computer with special hardware, which is held in a data center facility with special cooling systems, whose mission is to ensure the smooth operation of the hosting server and all the web sites located on it.

To sum up, a hosting server will be indeed a launch pad when the time arrives for you to launch your web site. It could be any kind of web site - a business web site consisting of a lot of webpages, or a website, which has only a couple of webpages and which you have built just for your mates and family members.

You've decided what your web site will be, now what?

Once you have reached a decision about what kind of web site you want to build, the next move is to discover what kind of web hosting service you have to choose for your online venture. Basically, there are two kinds of web hosting services - charge-free web hosting services and professional paid website hosting services. The free-of-cost website hosting solution is generally used by clients that do not have a business web site.

Strong and weak sides of the charge-free website hosting solution

You will not get plenty of features with a cost-free hosting package. Features such as bandwidth, memory and web hosting server storage space are restricted and insufficient for a complex online store or a business web site, or even for a web site with a lot of graphics. Besides, there are lots of banner ads put on your site by the hosting provider. These adverts take up plenty of space on your web site and are rather irritating.

Shared website hosting

The professional paid shared website hosting services tend to be more dependable and offer numerous advanced features beside the high-quality hosting server that will host your site and its files. Yet, it is essential to find out which features your website needs before choosing your web hosting plan. You should not rush and end up purchasing something that your web site does not demand.

Find your web hosting supplier

It is easy to find a web hosting accounts provider. You need to just conduct an online survey in order to find a web hosting services provider that answers your web site's requirements. Before you make your actual decision, take a gaze at the specs of the packages offered by the hosting companies that have got your attention. We, for example, are among the best web hosting distributors on the market these days. The wide variety of web hosting services and our prices are what makes us an enthralling choice. In spite of that, you must confirm what type of hosting service you require and whether the price suits your budget. Also, you must not forget to go through the web hosting company's Terms of Service prior to opening an account to make certain that your web site is not abusing them.

Signing up for a web hosting account

Once you have determined what features are ideal for your site, the next step is to sign up for an account with the hosting solutions provider of your preference. You will get all the important tools for handling your website files and databases. With us, for example, you will receive a hosting Control Panel, which consists of domain name, website, database and mailbox management sections. You log in the Control Panel using your unique user name and password, which grants you secure access to the portion of the server where your web site will be located.

Uploading your site

You can either upload your web site via an FTP client application or, as is with most hosting suppliers, through a web-based tool that is included within the hosting Control Panel. With us, the File Manager is very easy to use and offers features similar to those observed in Windows Explorer, which makes file manipulation extremely easy. We offer additionally a website builder and a PHP-powered script installer, which you can utilize to set up your website if you have no programming capabilities and are making your very first steps in web design. The web-based website building tool, called SiteStudio, will also save you the time and effort of creating a web site on your computer and then uploading it using an FTP client or the File Manager tool.