A Basic Web Hosting Walkthrough

If you are relatively new to the concept of having your very own place on the web this Web Hosting article may help fill you in on some of the basics.

There are two main categories of web hosting that I am going to cover in this article.

The first is dedicated hosting and the second is shared hosting.

The second type ,shared hosting, I usually break down into paid and free.

Before I break down the hosting types, however, let’s clear up some terminology…

Bandwidth

Bandwidth is the amount of data your site can transfer in a given period of time.

This is sometimes referred to as transfer.

When people view your site on the internet they are downloading it from the server and this uses up your bandwidth.

Storage

Storage is basically the measure of hard drive space your web site is allowed to take up on a server.

Dedicated Web Hosting

Dedicated hosting , or more like dedicated server, is where your website gets one entire server to itself.

You are pretty much entitled to all of the resources this server has to offer.

The entire bandwidth and hard drive capacity is yours including memory for processing and whatever else.

With larger, traffic intensive web sites dedicated hosting is pretty much a must but shared hosting is usually more than sufficient for individuals and small to smallish medium businesses.

Shared Web Hosting

Shared web hosting is basically when a hosting company puts your website on a server with web sites from other customers.

Your hosting provider will usually give you monthly limits for bandwidth, storage, email accounts and such.

Depending on what server you were put on and how good your hosting provider is sometimes things can get a little crowded on a server and cause your site to be slow and unresponsive.

Free Web Hosting

Free web hosting is shared hosting you get from a free service like geocities or another.

It is usually incredibly limited.

Sometimes you can “earn” a decent free hosting account by posting in forums and such but in my opinion paid hosting and a real domain name are much better.

Paid Web Hosting

Paid web hosting is actually inexpensive these days.

You can get good solid hosting that will support a small business for under $100 per year.

Usually hosting providers include a free domain name and free setup as well as a money back guarantee.

I hope you found this article helpful. If you decide to buy hosting make sure to be incredibly picky. The last thing you want is to end up with the wrong web hosting provider.

Tips

Read some articles on picking the right domain name and hunt down reviews of web hosting companies.

I wouldn’t go with companies that aren’t huge and well established. I’ve known many people who have lost web sites when unstable hosting companies went under.

Be vigilant and have fun.

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