How Hosting Services Functions

If you have made a decision to build your own personal web site, but are not very sure about what a website is and are not familiar with the phrase "hosting", this article is devoted to explaining these notions in simple language.

What precisely is a web site?

A website is a combination of webpages assembled in a systematic fashion. It has a special web site address, also called a URL (Uniform Resource Locator). A site may have only one webpage and sometimes may even contain as many as one thousand pages.

What is a hosting server?

A web hosting server permits you to upload your site onto it. In some instances, there might be even thousands of websites on one single hosting server. The web hosting server essentially is a computer with special hardware, which is housed in a data center with special cooling systems, whose purpose is to safeguard the smooth functioning of the hosting server and all the websites hosted on it.

In brief, a web hosting server will be truly a launch pad when the time arrives for you to launch your website. It could be any sort of web site - a corporate site having many pages, or a website, which contains just several web pages and which you have set up just for your pals and family members.

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

As soon as you have made a decision about what type of website you wish to build, the next move is to discover what type of web hosting service you have to pick for your web endeavor. Basically, there are two kinds of website hosting services - cost-free web hosting services and professional paid website hosting services. The charge-free website hosting solution is commonly utilized by users that do not own a business-related website.

Pros and cons of the charge-free website hosting solution

You will not get plenty of features with a free hosting plan. Features such as traffic, memory and disk drive storage space are limited and inadequate for an elaborate web shop or a corporate website, or even for a site with lots of graphics. What's more, there are lots of ads inserted on your website by the hosting accounts provider. These adverts take up lots of space on your web site and are very embarrassing.

Shared website hosting

The professional paid shared website hosting services are more reliable and include numerous powerful features apart from the high-power hosting server that will accommodate your site and its files. However, it is essential to find out which features your website needs before buying your web hosting plan. You should not hurry and end up paying for something that your site does not require.

Choose your web hosting services provider

It is not hard to find a web hosting solutions provider. You have to simply carry out an online search in order to find a web hosting company that matches your website's needs. Before you make your actual choice, take a gaze at the specs of the plans delivered by the hosting distributors that have got your interest. We, for example, are among the top web hosting service providers on the marketplace at present. The large range of hosting solutions and our prices are what renders us an appealing option. Nevertheless, you must determine what sort of hosting solution you need and if the price corresponds to your allowance. In addition, you must always remember to double-check the web hosting vendor's Terms of Use prior to subscribing to verify that your site is not violating them.

Signing up for a website hosting account

Once you have found out what features are ideal for your web site, the next step is to sign up for an account with the hosting services provider of your preference. You will acquire all the important tools for managing your web site files and databases. With us, for example, you will receive a web hosting Control Panel, which consists of domain name, web site, database and mail account management areas. You log in the hosting Control Panel using your unique user name and password, which grants you secure access to the part of the hosting server where your site will be located.

Uploading your website

You can either upload your web site files through an FTP software application or, as is with most web hosting distributors, through a web-based tool that is included within the hosting Control Panel. With us, the File Manager is extremely intuitive and offers features similar to those found in Windows Explorer, which renders file manipulation very easy. We offer additionally a site building tool and a PHP-based script installation tool, which you can use to create your web site if you possess no programming experience and are making your very first steps in web design. The web-based web site building tool, dubbed SiteStudio, will also spare you the time and effort of creating a web site on your personal computer and then uploading it via FTP or the File Manager interface.