Web Hosting Unveiled

If you have made a decision to launch your very own personal web site, but are not very certain about what a website is and are not aware of the term "web hosting", this article is devoted to clarifying these concepts in simple terms.

What precisely is a website?

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

What is a hosting server?

A hosting server permits you to upload your web site onto it. In some cases, there might be even 1000's of websites on a single hosting server. The web hosting server basically is a computer with special hardware, which is kept in a datacenter with special cooling systems, whose mission is to ensure the seamless operation of the machine and all the sites located on it.

To sum up, a web hosting server will be indeed a launch pad when the time arrives for you to launch your website. It could be any type of website - a corporate site containing multiple webpages, or a web site, which contains only several pages and which you have built just for your associates and family members.

You've decided what your site will be, now what?

As soon as you have decided what kind of site you desire to set up, the next move is to discover what kind of web hosting service you have to pick for your web venture. Essentially, there are two types of website hosting services - free-of-charge web hosting services and professional paid website hosting services. The charge-free website hosting solution is normally used by clients that do not possess a business-related site.

Upsides and downsides of the free-of-cost website hosting solution

You will not obtain lots of options with a free website hosting package. Features like traffic, memory and server hard disk storage space are limited and inadequate for a complex e-shop or a corporate site, or even for a site with plenty of graphics. Moreover, there are a lot of commercials embedded on your site by the web hosting provider. These advertisements occupy lots of space on your web site and are quite irritating.

Shared web hosting

The paid shared web hosting services are more reliable and include numerous sophisticated features apart from the high-end server that will host your site and its files. In spite of that, it is important to find out which features your website needs before choosing your web hosting plan. You should not hurry and wind up investing money in something that your web site does not require.

Select your web hosting solutions provider

It is easy to find a web hosting vendor. You need to simply conduct an online search in order to find a web hosting supplier that matches your website's needs. Before you make your actual decision, take a look at the features of the web hosting packages furnished by the hosting suppliers that have grasped your interest. We, for example, are among the premier web hosting service providers on the market these days. The big assortment of web hosting services and our prices are what renders us an enthralling option. Yet, you must ascertain what type of hosting service you require and if the price corresponds to your allowance. In addition, you must not forget to examine the hosting distributor's TOS before subscribing to ensure that your website is not abusing them.

Signing up for a web hosting account

Once you have found out what features are optimal for your web site, the next step is to open an account with the web hosting vendor of your preference. You will obtain all the needed tools for managing your website files and databases. With us, for example, you will acquire a web hosting Control Panel, which is comprised of domain, website, database and mailbox administration areas. You log into the hosting Control Panel using a unique user name and password, which grants you secure access to the part of the web hosting server where your web site will be located.

Uploading your site

You can either upload your site via FTP client software or, as is with most web hosting suppliers, via a web-based tool that is included within the hosting Control Panel. With us, the File Manager is very easy to use and offers features comparable to those observed in Windows Explorer, which makes file management very easy. We offer also a website builder and a PHP script installer, which you can use to create your website if you possess no programming abilities and are making your very first steps in web design. The web-based website builder, called SiteStudio, will also spare you the time and effort of making a web site on your PC and then uploading it through FTP client software or the File Manager tool.