Web hosting is a service that allows organizations and individuals to publish a website or web page on the Internet. A web host, or web hosting service provider, is a business that provides the technologies and services needed to view a website or web page. Websites are hosted, or stored, on special computers called servers.
When web users want to view your website, all they have to do is type your URL into their browser. Their computer will then connect to your server and your web pages will be delivered to them through the browser.
Most web hosting companies require you to own your own domain name in order to host with them. If you don’t have a domain name, web hosting companies will help you purchase one.
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The basic features of a web hosting plan include:
Disk space
All web hosting accounts offer a certain amount of disk space that you can use to store your web files. It’s a good idea to have some estimates of what you need for different tasks – how much space you need for your emails, web files, databases, etc.
By detailing your usage, you will be able to better estimate how much space you need to go.
Bandwidth or data transfer
Very often web hosts talk about bandwidth and data transfer as the same entity.
However, they are, in fact, different.
Bandwidth is the amount of data that can be transferred at once.
Data transfer is the amount of data actually transferred.
Think of it this way, if bandwidth were a tunnel, the bigger the tunnel, the more cars can go through it. Then, data throughput would be the number of cars allowed to go through the tunnel in a given period of time, say a month.
The less bandwidth you have, the slower your site will load, regardless of your visitor’s connection type. Visitors will have to wait for their turn. The less data transfer you have, the more often you will find that your site is unavailable because you have reached the maximum amount of data allowed to be transferred.
To determine what is enough, you need to consider the size of your website and the number of visitors you have to the site per month.
Email accounts
Email accounts are a common feature of web hosting, especially if you host a domain.
There are three main types of email accounts: POP3, forwarding, and aliases.
POP3 accounts are traditional inboxes. You have space on a server to store your emails, and at the same time, you can use email software to download your mail. Each login and password combination is usually equivalent to one account.
Mail account forwarding is useful if you use another company’s service to filter your emails for you. Instead of storing your emails on your mail server, emails are forwarded to another email address.
Alias accounts are similar to forwarding mail accounts. Some hosts allow you to set up a catch-all alias, which is often used to collect emails sent to addresses that are not recognized by your mail server.
FTP access
Once you have created your web pages on your computer, you need to transfer those files to your web server.
In most cases, files are transferred to the server via FTP or by the file manager provided by the host.
FTP is also the protocol for downloading your internet files from the server to your computer,
That is, backing up your website files.
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The article was translated from English to Hebrew by Yahav Bengiat.
The article was taken from the website dot-easy.
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