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Web hosting is the placement of your website onto the Internet through a server. Once you have placed your website on a server, anyone using the internet can access your website from anywhere in the world.
Website: this is a page or a set of pages that is located under the same domain name. A web page is a computer document that is written in a publishing language called HTML. As an internet user types in your web address, your web server will send the content of your web page to the user
Domain Name: this is a unique text based address that is used to locate a specific set of web pages. It is made up words and/or numbers plus a TLD (top level domain). The TLD for most businesses is “.com”. Non profit organizations use “.org”. Universities and educational websites use “.edu”.
Server: this is a computer that stores information that can be accessed through the network. It is used to host a website. Servers can also be used to store website information that can be accessed by any computer that has access to the internet.
Web hosting can be looked at as something similar to renting property. There are a large number of companies that will rent you space on their web servers, on the other hand, you can decide to buy a server for your own personal use. People spend thousands of dollars a year on web hosting alone. An average person or a small business would spend $10 – $50 a month. It all just depends on how many features, web space and data transfer they need.
Do not use your own server if you are planning to establish an internet presence in the form of a personal homepage or a full service e-commerce catalogue. You will definitely need a web host. Making the wrong choice for a web host can be damaging to your business. Find out all that you can about your prospective host before making any decisions and have a clear idea of the functions of your website that you wish to have prior to searching for your host. Finding the right web host is often daunting, so it would be best if you can look for a provider with many years of experience. Look for a list of the provider’s list of customers and check out some of their pages. Check out the contents of the web host’s websites as well. They should have a large website that contains several pages of services and support documents, plus their phone and fax numbers, as well as their physical address. Email them with a few sample questions to check out the speed and quality of their responses.