What Exactly is Hosting?

If you have made a decision to establish your very own site, but are not very certain about what a website is and are unfamiliar with the phrase "hosting", this article is devoted to explaining these concepts in plain terms.

What exactly is a website?

A web site is an amalgamation of web pages brought together systematically. It has a unique web address, also called a URL (Uniform Resource Locator). A site may have just one single web page and sometimes may even be comprised of as many as 1000 webpages.

What is a 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 one single web hosting server. The web hosting server essentially is a computer with special hardware, which is held in a data center facility with special cooling systems, whose task is to ensure the seamless functioning of the web hosting server and all the sites accommodated 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 sort of website - a business website consisting of a lot of webpages, or a web site, which consists of just several webpages and which you have created simply for your comrades and family members.

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

Once you have made a decision about what type of website you want to build, the next move is to find out what type of web hosting service you must choose for your web adventure. Basically, there are two sorts of website hosting services - cost-free hosting services and professional paid website hosting services. The cost-free hosting solution is typically utilized by persons that do not have a business-related web site.

Upsides and downsides of the free-of-charge web hosting solution

You will not get many options with a charge-free website hosting package. Features like traffic, RAM memory and hosting server hard disk space are limited and inadequate for a complex e-shop or a business web site, or even for a web site with a lot of artwork. Furthermore, there are a lot of banner adverts incorporated in your web site by the hosting vendor. These adverts take up lots of space on your web site and are rather frustrating.

Shared hosting

The paid shared hosting services tend to be more reliable and include a lot of powerful features apart from the high-power hosting server that will host your site and its content. Nevertheless, it is important to know which features your website demands before selecting your web hosting package. You should not rush and wind up investing money in something that your website does not demand.

Find your hosting solutions provider

It is not difficult to find a web hosting distributor. You have to just carry out an online search in order to find a web hosting solutions provider that satisfies your website's needs. Before you make your actual choice, take a gaze at the features of the hosting plans furnished by the hosting distributors that have caught your eye. We, for instance, are among the best hosting distributors on the market these days. The vast variety of services and our prices are what makes us an enthralling choice. Still, you must ascertain what sort of hosting solution you require and if the price matches your allowance. Also, you must always remember to take a look at the hosting service provider's Terms & Conditions prior to signing up to ensure that your site is not violating them.

Opening a hosting account

As soon as you have determined what features are optimal for your site, the next step is to sign up for an account with the hosting distributor of your choosing. You will acquire all the essential tools for administering your web site files and databases. With us, for example, you will obtain a Control Panel, which consists of domain name, web site, database and e-mail account management areas. You log in the Control Panel using a unique username and password, which gives you safe access to the portion of the web hosting server where your web site will be hosted.

Uploading your site

You can either upload your web files through an FTP client application or, as is with the majority of hosting companies, through an online tool that is included within the hosting Control Panel. With us, the File Manager is extremely intuitive and offers features similar to those observed in Windows Explorer, which makes file manipulation exceptionally easy. We offer also a site builder and a PHP-driven script installer, which you can use to develop your site if you possess no programming expertise and are taking your very first steps in web design. The online site builder, called SiteStudio, will also save you the time and effort of making a web site on your PC and then uploading it through an FTP client application or the File Manager tool.