Introduction of Web Hosting

If you are planing to create your own website or Internet business, then you would have to buy a web domain name and hosting space to develp the website. There are many different web hosting service providers which would offer you the various hosting packages. You have to select the Good, Reliable and Affordable website hosting package according to your requirement.

Usually Web hosting also depends on the type of development you want to do or the site you want to build. If you are developing in ASP .net then you could opt for Windows server, relavently windows server are little heavy / slow. Mostly developers develop their sites on PHP as it is relevantly faster and opensource.

 About:

Website hosting is provided by a company who have their own data-center fully managed and secured to store web files. 

Note: 

# Your Data is important and should be stored safely under security channels.

# Your Website should be live and accessible 24*7 for your visitors / people searching for your products and services.

For this the service provider should have a strong and powerful server and a good monitoring functions for memory / hard disk space and CPU usage and making backups of your data.

Functions:

Different web hosts provide offers different types of web hosting packages. The price of the package depends on the features which are involved in the package. Some of those features include support for running scripts such as CGI, Perl, Python, Front Page, Ruby on Rails, PHP and MySQL databases. Most paid hosts also provide a certain number of email accounts that use your domain name. i.e " yourname@yourcompany.com "

Type:

You will first need to choose which type of hosting facility you have to choose.

          1) Free website hosting.

          2) Paid website hosting.

Free web hosting has often disadvantages and are not secured / reliable and stable. Paid website hosts usually offer a number of different types of hosting packages at different prices. 

You could also use Virtual Private Servers / Dedicated servers depanding on your requirements.

Free Hosting vs. Paid Hosting:

Free web hosts are usually not completely free. To get the cost of hosting they will add some advertise banner on your site. These banners or ads generally cannot be removed and may interfere with the overall design of your website. Free hosting customer support also may or may not be available when you face any technical problem. Free servers may not support all the features for the scripts that you may need. Overall, paid website hosting is more reliable, offers more features and tends to have better customer service.

How to Choose Website Hosting:

Once you have an idea of the scope of your website, visit other websites that offer an overview of the different hosts and their plans. By reading what other users say about their experiences with hosting companies you can get an idea of customer satisfaction, service and server up-time. When in doubt, visit a website host's webpage and ask their customer support any questions you have.