Hosting Plans Definition
If you have made a decision to create your very own personal web site, but are not very certain about what a website is and are not aware of the expression "hosting", this article is devoted to clarifying these notions in simple English.
What precisely is a website?
A web site is an amalgamation of webpages brought together systematically. It has a unique address, also called a URL (Uniform Resource Locator). A web site may be comprised of just one single webpage and sometimes may even consist of as many as 1000 webpages.
What is a hosting server?
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A web hosting server enables you to upload your web site onto it. In some cases, there might be even thousands of sites on one single hosting server. The hosting server essentially is a computer with special hardware, which is located in a data center facility with special cooling systems, whose mission is to ensure the seamless performance of the machine and all the web sites hosted on it.
To summarize, a web hosting server will be indeed a launching pad when the time arrives for you to launch your website. It could be any kind of website - a corporate site containing many webpages, or a site, which is comprised of just several webpages and which you have developed simply for your comrades and relatives.
You've made a decision about what your web site will be, now what?
As soon as you have made a decision about what kind of web site you wish to develop, the next move is to find out what kind of web hosting service you have to choose for your Internet project. Basically, there are two types of website hosting services - cost-free website hosting services and professional paid website hosting services. The charge-free hosting solution is generally utilized by persons that do not possess a business website.
Positive and negative aspects of the charge-free hosting solution
You will not receive plenty of options with a charge-free web hosting package. Features like traffic, RAM memory and web server space are restricted and insufficient for a complex ecommerce website or a business web site, or even for a site with lots of graphics. Additionally, there are lots of banner ads placed on your website by the web hosting distributor. These advertisements take up lots of space on your website and are rather irritating.
Shared website hosting
The professional paid shared website hosting services are more stable and include numerous sophisticated features apart from the high-power server that will host your website and its files. In spite of that, it is essential to find out which features your website demands prior to selecting your web hosting package. You should not hurry and wind up investing money in something that your site does not demand.
Choose your hosting supplier
It is not tough to find a hosting solutions provider. You need to just conduct an online survey in order to find a web hosting vendor that answers your web site's requirements. Before you make your actual choice, have a look at the specifications of the hosting plans supplied by the hosting service providers that have grabbed your attention. We, for example, are among the leading hosting distributors on the marketplace nowadays. The enormous assortment of services and our prices are what makes us an appealing option. Even so, you must ascertain what type of hosting service you need and whether the price corresponds to your allowance. Additionally, you must not forget to explore the hosting provider's TOS before registering to make sure that your site is not violating them.
Signing up for a web hosting account
Once you have determined what features are best for your web site, the next step is to open an account with the hosting distributor of your choice. You will be bestowed with all the necessary tools for handling your website files and databases. With us, for example, you will get a web hosting Control Panel, which includes domain name, website, database and email management sections. You log in the Control Panel using a unique username and password, which grants you secure access to the portion of the web hosting server where your web site will be located.
Uploading your website
You can either upload your files via an FTP software application or, as is with most web hosting service providers, through a web-based tool that is integrated within the web hosting Control Panel. With us, the File Manager is quite user-friendly and offers features similar to those observed in Windows Explorer, which renders file management extremely easy. We offer also a site builder and a PHP-driven script installation tool, which you can use to create your website if you possess no programming experience and are taking your first steps in web design. The web-based website builder, whose name is SiteStudio, will also spare you the time and effort of making a website on your computer and then uploading it via an FTP client application or the File Manager tool.