What is Web Hosting?

[silverfreak]

Before you can own your own stake to Internet glory, you must know what runs the backend of it. For the most part, Web hosting plays the biggest part in how the Internet has been shapped in the past and shall be shapped in the future. Before you can own your own Web hosting account, you must first know what Web hosting is. What is Web hosting and how does it impact you yourself someday starting up your own Web site?

Sure somebody has explained it to you before, maybe several times. However, not every definition can be understood by the untrained eye, what is needed is a translation from Web hosting geek into regular speak.

Web hosting can be broken down into two parts, the Web hosting server and the Web hosting domain name.

Web Hosting Sever

Your Web hosting sever is the place in which your Web page is stored. When you sign up with a Web hosting company, you in effect rent space off of a shared Web hosting server hooked up to the Internet. No mater what Web hosting company you sign with or what promises they give you, at the fundemental core of all of that is that idea. Think of it as one file in a large filing cabinet. You can put as much stuff inside of that folder as you have room for. Folks can pull it out and look at it anytime they want to.

Web Hosting Domain Name

Your domain name acts as a tool to direct your visitors, or yourself to your own Web site. Simply, your domain name points to your Web hosting account so that when you type in, "http://www.mitchkeeler.com" you in return go to MitchKeeler.com. Think of the domain name as a way to label the folder mentioned earlier. If none of the folders in the filing cabinet had lables it would be aweful hard to tell what content was in which folder. The same could be said about domain names in relation to Web sites they are directed to.

Need More Help?

Try searching Google for the definition of Web hosting, you are given a plethora of definitions and options other than these above.

More Information on Mitch Keeler

Mitch Keeler is a guy who likes to help people out in his own charismatic and odd way. Instead of showing somebody how to do something, he much more enjoys having people see the problem and the solution through his own eyes. Mitch has worked as an article and content writer for various Web sites around the globe.

Mitch Keeler is also a former Customer Service Director and Customer Service Manager for a large Web hosting company as well as a current contributor to Lockergnome.com. Please feel free to contact Mitch, look over his impressive resume of accomplishments or read more at his blog, mitchelaneous.

[contactsonia]

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[kooshin.com]

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[kayleemiller]

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[soniat]

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Web hosting provides the website with a server space so that the website can be visible on the world wide web. There are different types of web hosting that differ in terms of hosting configurations; the main being bandwidth and web space. You can easily determine what web hosting plan would be suitable to your website on the basis of the online transactions done on the website and the nature of the website. The main types of hosting include dedicated hosting, shared hosting, reseller hosting, VPS hosting and cloud hosting. Reseller hosting is used by the people who would like to create their own web hosting business

[vaengaivenkat]

Web hosting is a service which allocates space for customers to showcase their websites on computer servers that are connected to the Internet 24/7.

Servers are powerful computers that have extremely large hard drives, or an array of hard drives. Space is then rented to those who want a "website presence" on the Internet.

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[alein123]

A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to make their own website accessible via the World Wide Web. Web hosts are companies that provide space on a server they own or lease for use by their clients as well as providing Internet connectivity, typically in a data center. Web hosts can also provide data center space and connectivity to the Internet for servers they do not own to be located in their data center, called colocation or Housing as it is commonly called in Latin America or France.