How Web Hosting Services Functions

If you have decided to launch your very own personal website, but are not quite sure about what a website is and are not aware of the phrase "web hosting", this article is dedicated to explaining these concepts in simple words.

What precisely is a web site?

A website is an amalgamation of webpages assembled systematically. It has a unique web site address, also known as a URL (Uniform Resource Locator). A web site may include just one single web page and sometimes may even contain as many as a thousand web pages.

What is a web hosting server?

A hosting server permits you to upload your website onto it. In some instances, there might be even 1000's of websites on a single web hosting server. The hosting server essentially is a computer with special hardware, which is situated in a data center facility with special cooling systems, whose task is to ensure the seamless performance of the server and all the websites hosted on it.

To sum up, a hosting server will be indeed a launching pad when the time arrives for you to launch your site. It could be any sort of web site - a corporate web site having numerous web pages, or a website, which includes just a couple of web pages and which you have created just for your mates and relatives.

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

As soon as you have reached a decision about what type of web site you wish to create, the next move is to find out what type of web hosting service you have to select for your online project. Essentially, there are two kinds of web hosting services - free website hosting services and paid website hosting services. The free-of-cost website hosting solution is ordinarily used by customers that do not have a business-related website.

Positive and negative sides of the free-of-cost web hosting solution

You will not receive plenty of features with a charge-free website hosting package. Features like traffic, RAM memory and disk drive storage space are restricted and inadequate for an elaborate ecommerce web site or a business site, or even for a site with a lot of artwork. Furthermore, there are lots of advertisements put on your website by the web hosting company. These advertisements take up lots of space on your web site and are extremely frustrating.

Shared hosting

The professional paid shared hosting services are more reliable and offer a lot of powerful features apart from the high-power hosting server that will accommodate your website and its content. Still, it is important to know which features your web site demands before purchasing your web hosting plan. You should not rush and end up spending cash on something that your site does not need.

Choose your web hosting accounts provider

It is not tough to find a web hosting supplier. You need to just conduct an online search in order to find a web hosting company that answers your web site's needs. Before you make your actual choice, have a glimpse at the specifications of the plans offered by the hosting providers that have grabbed your attention. We, for instance, are among the premier website hosting providers on the marketplace at the moment. The broad assortment of web hosting solutions and our prices are what renders us an appealing option. Nonetheless, you must determine what kind of hosting solution you require and if the price matches your allowance. Besides, you must always remember to double-check the web hosting provider's Terms & Conditions prior to opening an account to ensure that your site is not violating them.

Signing up for a website hosting account

As soon as you have determined what features are most important for your web site, the next step is to open an account with the web hosting vendor of your choosing. You will acquire all the important tools for handling your website files and databases. With us, for instance, you will get a web hosting Control Panel, which consists of domain, web site, database and e-mailbox management sections. You log in the Control Panel using your unique username and password, which grants you safe access to the portion of the server where your site will be hosted.

Uploading your website

You can either upload your website via an FTP software program or, as is with the majority of hosting companies, via an online tool that is included within the web hosting Control Panel. With us, the File Manager is extremely user-friendly and offers features comparable to those found in Windows Explorer, which renders file manipulation very easy. We offer additionally a site builder and a PHP-driven script installer, which you can use to set up your website if you have no programming expertise and are making your first steps in web design. The online web site builder, whose name is SiteStudio, will also spare you the time and effort of making a website on your computer and then uploading it via FTP client software or the File Manager interface.