Web hosting guide for beginners
So you would like to start publishing your site on the web, but you
are not sure what web hosting is and where to start? This article
points out to you the resources for beginner.
What is Web Hosting?
Web hosting is simply the allocation of your website on a web server
that is connected through the internet. In another words, web hosting
allows your website to be connected to the Internet at high speed
via a web server so its information can be viewed globally through
a browser. Because the nature of the Internet allows anyone from
anywhere connected through an internet computer to view your site,
your web server must be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
How is this possible when owning and maintaining a Web server can
be very expensive, as well as technically intensive? This is where
a Web hosting Provider comes into the picture to provide you with
the hardware and software that allow this to take place at an affordable
cost. In order for a web hosting provider to offer you hosting service,
the provider usually needs to house its web servers in a data center
configured on a high speed network infrastructure and connected
to internet backbones. These internet backbones are long-haul backbone
fibre connections capable of transmitting data at extremely high
speed.
Web Hosting Service and domain name.
If you want to publish your website on the internet, you need web
hosting service. Alternatively, like some corporations, you can
own your web server, line and networks to start publishing your
website. We don't recommend the latter, because it is very costly
to run and maintain. I will explain to you some of the terms that
are essential for you to know before you begin to find a suitable
host for your site.
Data Center.
A data center is a collection of database, servers, computer networks
and software widely used to deploy and support hosting services
and computing application services. Because a data center can be
very expensive to maintain and upgrade. Companies are increasingly
looking to outsource these routine operations so that they can focus
on higher priority technology projects like e-commerce and customer
relationship management.
Domain name.
A domain name is a unique alphanumeric name used to identify a particular
host (computer) such as a Web server or Email server on the Internet.
In another words, it is the main part of what is known as your site's
Uniform Resource Locator (URL) on the World Wide Web.
Domain names allow Internet users to type in a name, such as http://www.isp-guide.com/
or http://www.cheapwebhosting.cc/, to identify a numeric address
such as 66.33.11.174. The main purpose of domain names is to allow
web users to connect to the Internet and find websites or send email
to addresses with familiar names such as "email.com" or
"eudoramail.com" without having to memorize the IP addresses.
A domain name and a web site, connected together allows you to
have a web presence on the internet and allows you to manage email
addressed to your domain. The capabilities and features of your
web site and your email will depend on the web hosting provider.
Usually, to start hosting, you need to register a domain name first.
Domain name registration cost from US$8.00 to US$35 per depending
on the domain registrar. We recommend that you register your domain
names with an ICANN accredited registrar>
