You have finally created a neat looking website and purchased your domain name. It is now time for the website to be published on the World Wide Web. In order to achieve this, you need the services of a web host. So what exactly is web hosting and what do you get when you purchase a web-hosting package?
Web pages essentially comprise of content in terms of text and images. Now, in order to make this content accessible to online users, all these files need to be stored on a web server. The function of these web servers is to store tens to thousands of web sites and these in turn are connected through a high-speed Internet. When the user attempts to access these web pages, the browser connects to the web server that stores those pages and downloads it to their computer. So a web-hosting provider is a company that owns these web servers and thereby hosts your websites to be made accessible to users worldwide.
The web server computers are all housed in special buildings or sections of buildings called a data center. Apart from offering high-speed Internet connection services, these locations are set up and specially customized to ensure the optimum operational conditions and security for the web servers. These could include HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, & Air Conditioning) control, fire shielding, virus protection, data backup services, power backup facilities as well as even autonomy in case of any unforeseen technical errors or disasters. Another term for the web servers in the data center is a web farm.
The customer needs a certain amount of space on these servers in order to store their data. The amount of data available to the user on a web server is simply referred as space and is usually measured in MB. The Internet connection needed so that your web site can be accessed online is referred as bandwidth and is also measured in MB or even GB. The space and bandwidth form the two main characteristics of a web-hosting package.
Now depending upon the nature and purpose of the website, the customer can choose between shared and dedicated hosting.
In shared hosting, many websites are hosted on a single server within a definite quota of space and bandwidth. On the other hand, in dedicated web hosting one single web server is rented to a single customer. It is important to determine one’s website requirement, future website prospects as well as hosting budget before you decide on your web hosting package.
It would also be a good idea to familiarize oneself with the control panel and its interface and features. Most websites feature a tutorial of the control panel offered so that customers may get a feel of the control panel, the place where various aspects of the hosting account are controlled and managed.
The quality of customer support and technical support is yet another aspect that comes into play when looking for a web host. So remember to do your research well and read user reviews about the web host before you take the plunge into the web hosting market.
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#1 by faisal313pk on February 1st, 2010
Free web hosting usually not reliable and it may DOWN,,DOWN,,DOWN,,So your vistor will not come back .All your hard work may be lost and Search Engines are NOT on friendly terms with free webhosting site.Free web hosting are also have a lot of annoying advertisement…
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Good luck!
#2 by nacao on February 1st, 2010
Lol, well then according to OVH’s terms of service you should be paying more!
My discussions with them they said i would have to move up to a premium traffic plan if i use in excess of the 5TB range….
Also… if you look at my calculations above the connection will only allow a max of just over 1TB a day… :p
And OVH provide 100mbps per CLIENT not per server unless you pay more.
#3 by Jack L on February 1st, 2010
If you intend to create a few websites (usually you will end up more than 1 website), go for multiple web hosting where you could handle your websites in one account.
I suggest following webhosting , they are quite good.
Hostmonster http://www.anurl.com/?PQMRY
They offer hosting of "unlimited domains" and you will get massive webspace of 200000 MB (200 GB ). They only charge $5.95/month and they offer "a free Domain Name" and installing service called "Fantastico". By using Fantastico, you could create own forum, photo gallery, shopping cart (e-commerce),your own auction site and your own blogs within few seconds. They also offer "Free Website Builder" as well.
Visit the site to check details.
Hostmonster http://www.anurl.com/?PQMRY
Domains
Following site is quite good to register domains as price is reasonable with free privacy. Some charge about $5/ year just for free privacy.
IPOWER http://www.anurl.com/?TXIBE
#4 by guzen on February 1st, 2010
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#5 by Garry M on February 2nd, 2010
Hello,
Wonder if this helps?
http://help.yahoo.com/verizon/tutorials/index.html
Good luck.
#6 by urbantool on February 2nd, 2010
I guess speed isn’t important anymore?
#7 by psychic on February 2nd, 2010
Wrong Unmetered But NOT unlimited
Example u have unmeter bdwidth on dedi server with 100Mbit port MAX transfer u get
100Mbit = 12.5MB
which is 1.029968TB day max a month thats a max of almost 31TB Which is a lot, but NOT unlimited.
Also bare in mind ALL datacentres have caps on unmetered servers so if you are using say
5TB transfer they will ship you to a high rate or ask to pay x / hundred GB
Note im a host i know what i do and so do the larger companies which i
work with
#8 by Sam on February 2nd, 2010
It is always a bad idea to start a business you know nothing about. You better do some research first.
Here are a couple of books from Amazon.com that you should read to start getting up to speed:
http://www.amazon.com/Web-Hosting-Manager-Christoph-Puetz/dp/1411653149/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194943200&sr=1-9
http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Linux-Web-Hosting-Denoncourt/dp/1583470328/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194943200&sr=1-10
http://www.amazon.com/How-Host-your-own-Server/dp/1847281087/ref=pd_bbs_2_s9_rk?ie=UTF8&s=books&s9r=8afd079f0d3b3162010d40d725800065&itemPosition=2&qid=1194943200&sr=1-2
#9 by rails on February 2nd, 2010
theres no such thing as Unlimited bandwidth
#10 by glad.romance on February 2nd, 2010
My wife and I are building a website for our business through a program that is available online. This program shows you what is being searched by the masses and tells you what keywords you should use to gain ranking in the search engines. This program allows you to plug in any type of website that you wish to design and will help you step by step on how to build it right so you can get rankings above your competitors. I would be happy to give you more information about this program if you would like to email me at robertbreitling@yahoo.com or if you would like to read more about it you can in my Yahoo Answers Profile page. I hope that this helps.
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#11 by CrazyFace on February 3rd, 2010
The short answer is that you shouldn't run web hosting out of your house. Even with significant upgrades to your setup, you likely will lack the infrastructure to adequately provide for any significant amount of website traffic. And if you are having to ask here how to set one up, then you almost certainly will not have the tools to properly maintain and support it.
A better bet is to become a reseller for an existing host, like GoDaddy — http://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/wwd_landing.asp.You can make money, handle clients, and offer a lot more than you'd be able to putting it together yourself. And if there's a technical issue, you have a resource to use instead of being on your own.
If you want something more hands-on, you can rent a server from a place like The Planet — http://www.theplanet.com/ — that provides you a server to host on with an admin system like Plesk that is more hands-on as far as setting up accounts and sites, but is pretty simple to use and ensures your hosted sites have proper bandwidth available, site backups, power redundancy and other features a proper web host should have.
#12 by truth on February 4th, 2010
Unlimited bandwidth and hosting doesnt exist!
#13 by David La Pierre on February 4th, 2010
this site> http://www.interkeys.com/tophosts has a good guide of some hosts that are cheap , reliable and safe to use. They are the best of the best when it comes to hosting.