Web Hosting- Dependent Upon Your Website And Budget
A service provider who serves your web site for viewing on the internet is called a web host. People who are browsing the internet access web site's through each site's respective web host. The computers the web hosting companies use to serve web pages are very similar to home computers. Running software designed to serve web sites, these computers are referred to as servers.
Web hosts usually host thousands of websites, using many servers, and typically have very fast connections to the Internet. Basically, they function by renting out space to users who want users to be able to access their websites through the World Wide Web.
Many of the larger web hosting companies directly own their own batch of hosting servers. Some of the smaller companies will rent a server from the larger ones, then market that same space under their own company name. In these situations, the web host manages your account holdings on the server, but is, in fact, renting the server space from a different company altogether.
There are a large variety of web hosting plans which are all designed upon the needs of your website and your budget requirements. Bandwidth is always a factor and will be limited in a MB or GB size. Plainly spoken, this is the amount of data that can be moved from the web server where your site is hosted, to the browser of the surfer currently looking through your website.
If you exceed the set limit, you will end up either paying a fee, or your website will become unavailable. The bandwidth that you use is directly connected to the level of traffic that your site receives.
There are some web-hosting companies that offer unlimited bandwidth. This sounds like an amazing deal. The truth is that this is nothing but a lie and you should steer clear of web hosting companies that offer unlimited bandwidth. Bandwidth is a commodity that costs the web hosting company money- unlimited bandwidth is not only impossible, but would cost an unlimited amount of money. Finding the right web hosting company should be your primary plan.
Web hosting services consist of providing a server, which is like a computer, but it's always online, and set-up specifically to be accessed. Generally speaking, they have to be fast, since they host thousands of sites. Similar to an dealing with real estate, they rent out their space to users who need the space. Sometimes you're going to deal with a big company that owns all their servers, or sometimes you may deal with a smaller entity that rents its servers. There are lots of different plans depending on how you want to use your bandwidth, budgeting concerns, etc.
Published August 17th, 2008
Filed in Business, Home Business, Internet