Hosting for your Web Site

This is about affordable hosting of your web site and factors to consider about web site hosting with a random web hosting solution provider.

First consider how much storage space you need, how much bandwidth. If you are going to use scripts you might need CGI or PHP functionality. If you want to know which of your pages get traffic / visits, you will need stats info. If you want to publish adult content you need a web host that allows that. There are many web hosts how don't allow that kind of content.

Web Hosting
Every Web site is stored on a computer--called a server--that is connected to the Web. When your web site is stored on one of these servers, your site is being "hosted" by the server.

Storage
Storage space is the amount of memory in MegaBytes on Web servers that can be provided to you for your Web files. Your Web files can include html pages, images, audio and video files, log files, data from on-line forms, and anything else you wish to load.

Bandwidth
This is the amount of bytes per month (i.e. 500 Mb is 500 million bytes, 1 Gb is giga or billion bytes). Unlimited bandwidth is rare.

CGI / PHP scripting
A script is a program that runs on a server and processes requests in response to input from the browser. There is client scripting as well as server scripting.

Connection Speed
Just how fast is their connection to the Internet? Just because somebody claims to have T3 service doesn't mean much if they have to pass through a series of less speedy routers.

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Reliability
Nothing and nobody is perfect. How often do they backup their servers?

Support
Is there on-line documentation? Can you contact support staff by phone or e-mail? Do not expect free help when it comes to setting up CGI scripts and other work. But verify that hosting companies can answer your questions.

Are They the Real Hosting Company?
Check to be sure that the hosting company is in fact really the provider and not a reseller for another company!

FTP
File Transfer Protocol. FTP utilities are used to transfer Web pages and other files from your hard drive to a remote server.

.HTACCESS Access
Password protecting directories.

Your-name.com
Your-name.com means you can use your very own domain name. This makes your Web presence more professional and more memorable to visitors. your web hosting solution provider might offer domain registration.

International domain names
Many web site owners use country domains with TLD's (=TopLevelDomainnames) other than .com, .net or .org. Webhosts provide hosting with international domain names, but many webhosts do not register international domains.

These pages are about affordable hosting and factors to consider about web site hosting with a random web hosting solution provider.

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