Web Hosting Service

Web hosting is the most important part of your business. The web hosting provides you with space for your web pages and email (POP3) accounts. Choosing and Registering a Domain name is a separate activity from choosing a hosting company although most companies do offer both services.

A web hosting service is a form of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to provide their own websites accessible via the World Wide Web. Web hosting companies provides space on a server they own for use by their clients as well as providing Internet connectivity, typically in a data center.

Web Hosting Service

Web pages or files are transferred to the Web hosting server via File Transfer Protocol (FTP) or a Web interface.

Types of web hosting service
1. Free Web hosting Service
2. Shared Web Hosting Service
3. Dedicated Web hosting Service
4. Reseller Web Hosting
5. Virtual Dedicated Server
6. Managed Web Hosting Service
7. Co-location web hosting service
8. Clustered hosting
9. Grid hosting
10. Home server

Shared web hosting service is commonly used. If you plan to have a lot of traffic to your website or do not want to share a server, you can choose a "Dedicated web hosting service" that is your own dedicated server that the web hosting company manages for you. Dedicated web hosting service is more expensive than shared hosting service.

Standard Web Hosting Specifications/features:
Web Space
Free email
Free transfer
Free setup
Money back guarantee
Mysql, CGI Scripts
Unlimited Bandwidth
FrontPage Extensions
Unlimited pop3 emails
Reliable 24/7 support
Reseller options
PHP, Pearl, etc.,

Web Hosting Service

Specific Web services:

File hosting service: Hosting service to hosts files not web pages.

Image hosting service: Hosting service to hosts images only.

Video hosting service: Hosting service to hosts video only.

Blog hosting service: Hosting service to hosts blog.

The following are the Key Parameters to consider in a web hosting package:

Sufficient Disk Space: The disk space is required to store all your web pages.

Sufficient Monthly bandwidth: This is the amount of data transfer from your web site that the hosting service provider allows each month.

Average page size X page views per day X 30

For example if your average page size is 50 KB and you're getting 500 pages view per day the monthly data transfer would be:

50 Kb x 500 x 30 = 750 Mega bytes per month

Sufficient FREE email accounts: Does the web hosting package includes email (POP3) accounts, or are those separate.

Good support system: Do customer support available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week? Customer support is provided by phone, or only by email, or by chat?

High Reliability: This is basically the % of time that the hosting company promises that your web site will be available. Usually all web hosting service providers assure 99.9% uptime. To confirm the reliability, you can contact the webmasters who have already hosted their website from that company.

FrontPage Extensions: If you design/publish your web pages using FrontPage then the hosting company needs to install special software on your hosting account in order for it to work. Don't forget to make sure this feature is available with your hosting package.

Disclaimer: Nothing in this website is intended to be professional, legal, financial and/or accounting advice. Always seek competent advice from professionals in these matters. Also it is always a good idea, especially when it comes to online marketing, to check all local, state, and federal laws to make sure you are in compliance. If you break federal, state, city, or other local email laws, we will not be held liable for any damages you incur.