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Today through this guide, I shall be giving
you tips and definition that is associated to Web Hosting and how they will
contribute to the success of your online business.
What is Web Hosting?
Web Hosting is
the process and act of putting your website files, data, on a connected
24 hour computer that is hook up on a central server on the internet so that
visitor to your website can easily access your website on the internet any
where they are. When you host your website, your files pictures, data, videos
etc it becomes very easy for people to quickly access your website from any
part of the world. The reason why you are actually reading this guide is
because my website is actually hosted and you are reading it because the
computer which have 24 hour internet access is giving you access to the web
page of my website and that is why you have access to read what I posting here
on these website.
What is domain Name?
Domain Name is different from a Web Hosting because
domain name is just an integral part of the whole process. I will use a very
simple example to explain the concept using a landlord and a tenant as shown
below:
When you want to park in to a particular house, you
are expected to pay the landlord a particular fee let say $100 dollar for a
yearly House rent Fee. See this fee you pay the landlord as a domain Name and
the house the landlord gives you the key to live on as the Host.
You can see from the above illustration that both
hosting and domain Registration goes hand in hand and you can equally see from
the above narration that one thing is constant in landlord and tenant relationship
system which is renewing of house rent each year the same thing is applicable
to web Hosting and domain Registration, you need to renew both your Domain
Name and Your Web Hosting each year for your to keep your website alive in your Web
Hosting Company Server on 24 hours basis.
What is Web Hosting Company?
Web Hosting company are special group of
individuals/company's that have a 24 hour internet access and server that is connected
to the internet where you can go to buy both your web hosting and domain name
for your website. This company is online 24 hours and they have a particular type of computer called server that are always connected to the internet which serve your files and
data to your website visitor when they visit your website.
Can I Build a Sever By myself?
Yes, you can actually build yourself a server, the
only thing is that you need to spend big time money and hire technical personal
for the management of the server and network in-fracture. The work load may be
tedious on you if you decide to build yourself a server for your website. I
strongly advice you buy a web Hosting Plan and domain name form a web hosting
company instead of building one for yourself.
What is a Web Hosting Plan?
When you want to register your website and buy web
hosting from a web hosting company, they present to you what we called web
hosting plan to make a choice out of their plan. I will summaries some of the
poplar thing you may be presented to below.
1.Bandwidth space
Bandwidth space talks about the website traffic of
your site. This bandwidth space may range from Megabyte (MB) to Gigabyte (GB).
And it is measure per a month. Some web hosting company offer unlimited
Bandwidth space while others offer a range of Bandwidth space.
2.Storage Space
Storage Space talks about the space on the hard disk
of their sever where you will store your website files and data. The storage
space is measured in both Megabyte (MB) and Gigabyte (GB). Just like bandwidth
space, some web hosting company offer unlimited storage space while others
offer a range of storage space.
3.Database
Virtually all the web Hosting Company and plan comes
with Database which is where your website data and file will be stored. Some
website offer unlimited database while some don’t offer such.
4.Automatic Software Installation
Web Hosting Plan Also come preloaded with automatic
software installation of some web application building tools such as Wordprss,
Joomla, Wiki, Shopping software’s, Forum Scripts, which you can easily install with a click of
a button.
Other features and specification that comes along
with a web hosting plans are Advance
Language Like PHP, CGI, Perl, etc.
How do I choose a Right Web Hosting company,
Where do I register my Domain Name and Purchase Hosting Plan?
There are a lot of several company's that you can purcase a web hosting plan in the internet and below i shall list a few of them.
1. www.bluehost.com
2. www.hostgator.com
3.www.whogohost.com
4. www.ipage.com
Conclusion
You can visit any of the above web hosting company to buy your web hosting plan for your next website. with time on our subsequent articles on this, we shall be reviewing few of them on this blog just keep visiting and subscribe to receive our blog updated direct to your inbox.
