Monday, January 31, 2011

A Bit on Website Hosting

By Jennifer Geu


With the growing number of people that want to put up their own site and companies that are in need of one, website hosting is becoming a very necessary tool to many. After reading the following you should have a little more understanding of what website hosting is and how it is beneficial to those who use it.

What Website hosting happens to be the service that allows sites to get on the internet for people to find. Without having a host service, it doesn't matter what you do, your site will never get out there for people to find because it will not be on the internet at all. This is not the same as a web design service where you will find someone who creates your site so that you don't have to, but instead it is the service that gets used upon completion of the site creation. This is how your site is going to get to the web.

The How The number of website hosting providers is vast. There are far too many to count or list all of them. The bottoms of the line providers are free of charge. They have few features and support only the simplest of sites and pages. This will not be a good option for you if you need a larger site that has more detail and is interactive for your customers and clients. In this case you will have to pay for a provider.

The paid services offer a lot more tools for the users. These are things such as platforms for the launch of applications and a database that will support the larger more complex site and provide help to the users when they have any questions. There are even some companies that have so much going on through the web that they end up needing to have their own website hosting service.

As you are looking for a service, check all the different features that are offered through each one that you look at. Make sure you are also comparing the up time percentages of each of them. Every site is going to have a small amount of time here and there where the site is not accessible, but this should not be too much. The up time percentage that you are looking for should be no less than 99.99%. This means that your site will be more reliable for your clients.

The amount of detail that is available when doing research about website hosting providers is nearly limitless. This is not going to go into it all. There should be enough covered here that you now have a little better understanding of the basics.

The key to purchasing any service knows what you are getting into and doing some homework about it first. The same goes for website hosting, so make sure that you do that before you commit to anything.




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