Hello friends! I am interested to give you all the description about web hosting and its uses. From my understanding, A web hosting is a service that will allow someone who wants to maintain or own a Website on the World Wide Web. A web site hosting is an Internet-connected computer (web server), may be several computers, to meet the need for capacity and availability – in which multiple users can upload their web sites or web sites (under different domain names) at an instant.
There are free web hosting and web hosting which costs money. Cost Classified hosting usually offer more extensive tech support than hosting which is free and rarely offer more than very basic support. At times, the same domain hosting company offers some services for free but charge for providing more capacity or more advanced features. Some hosting company is advertising funded.
Web Hosting, in particular, includes these following features:
- Storage space – the amount of data that may be on a website.
- Traffic Capacity – amount of data that a website can deliver per unit time.
- Availability – the proportion of time that the web material is available (often calculated as number of nines: for example, 99.9% of the times corresponding to an average of 10 minutes break in a week).
- Backup – the backup was well enough, or should the customer back up the contents
- Platform – such as Linux or MS Windows servers, essential for some scripting languages and whether it is possible to log in and work directly with a command prompt.
- Databases - how many, and of what type. A common type is MySQL.
- Scripting Language - an opportunity to make dynamic pages in the dedicated hosting.
- The options available to update the web pages – for example through the web, or by sending updated files with FTP or SSH.
- Ability to log into the server to interactively work with the sides.
- Opportunity to get statistics on traffic to websites.
Hope you all enjoyed this post and would have come to know about the importance of web hosting.