What to look for when Buying Web Hosting
Written by PLRMan on May 21, 2009 – 7:13 am -The web world may lead you into terms like domain names, web hosting and secure certificates. Confused yet? If you are new to this you probably are. What do you need and what are the extras they are trying to sell you on. For any web site there are two main essential requirements - a domain name and web site hosting. Your name would be something like msn.com and your files would be hosted online for people to see.
Domain names are just an easy way for visitors to remember your site and type it into their browser. What about the web hosting side of things? Well let’s explain what you are doing when you purchase web hosting. Web Hosting is like a container for your web files. Files for your web site could be code or multimedia files, such as HTML, CSS or Flash. Your web site needs a server for web hosting, that is basically a computer configured to display your web site pages. Basically a web hosting package is a service provided by a Company that will make your web site live so people all around the world can view it at any time.
Now that we understand what web hosting actually is, when you look to purchase web hosting what do all these features mean? For beginner sites, you will be mainly looking at two main features - disk space and bandwidth. Disk space is the file size you are allowed to keep on the actual web server. The latter means how much data your server is allowed to transfer when web site visitors visit your web page. As you want to grow with your site and use more advanced features like for a Blogging system, you will want to look into language support (ASP or PHP) and database support (mySQL). The programming language the site was coded in will help you choose the language support required, while the database is essentially where your data is stored.
To summarize, web hosting is a server that displays your code and visual files to users of your site. Depending on the nature of your site, you will then need to consider package features such as disk space, bandwidth, language support and database support.
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