What Do You Mean Internet Web Site Hosting?
People who have very little knowledge regarding Internet would also like to be on the internet because of the
innumerable opportunities Internet gives to a person. What exactly do you mean by wanting to be on the Internet? Do
you want to just browse the Internet just like most of the people on the net do? Or do you want to have your own
internet web site either for communicating to your friends and relations on matters of common interest or use it
for business purposes? It is not at all difficult to have your own personal or business web site. All you require
for this is a domain registration, an internet web site hosting provider and an .ftp upload program. If you
are confused by these technical jargons do not worry; we will explain to those of you who aren’t internet savvy on
simple terms all the above things. The internet can be considered as a huge highway wherein parking lots are sold;
your web site is one of the many parking lots wherein you display your items.
Domain Registration
Domain registration is nothing but a unique identification for your web site which will facilitate accessing it
anytime either by you or any other person; this is similar to your name by which you are being identified. By our
analogy of highway this is your parking lot on the internet. Just like naming a child you should name your web site
with a catchy name and register it. Since the domain name has to be unique it is necessary that you cannot have a
domain name which already exists in the Internet. The registration normally comes with an internet web site hosting
product. Your web site address could be you.com, you.biz, you.net, you.org etc. wherein "you" is the name you have
chosen and the term behind the dot is the extensions. These extensions mean specific things. For example, .com for
commercial organizations, .net for network services such as ISPs and .org for non-profit organizations. You can
check to see the availability of any domain name from the website http://www.whois.net/ . Host
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Internet Web Site Hosting and Small Business Internet Web Site Hosting
Both the internet web site hosting and small business internet web hosting are related to each other. Small
business web hosting is a subset of web site hosting. The ISP (acronym for Internet Service Provider) provides you
with the web site hosting services for a fee. The fee is dependent on the package of services that you are planning
to buy from the ISP. Small business web hosting is one of those services and it contains a package of the
services that most small businesses need to get a website up and running. All internet web site hosting packages
are equipped with email facility and options in storage space and bandwidth.
E-mail depends on the number of persons for whom you would like to give an exclusive email box at your domain
with your internet web hosting service; normally each email address requires one e-mail box. Storage space is the
amount of space your website will take up; bandwidth is the amount of data transferred to or from the website or
server within a prescribed period of time. This can be explained with the analogy of the parking lot; storage space
is equivalent to the size of your parking lot, the e-mail is the number of slots in your parking lot and your
bandwidth represents the traffic in your parking lot. You can estimate your parking lot size or storage space by
adding the bytes in your web pages and pictures.
It is possible to estimate the bandwidth requirement taking into account the bytes required for each of your web
page including photographs, average number of people who are likely to visit your website everyday etc. Persons
visiting your website and clicking on that page will be using that many bytes. Suppose your website is 1 MB (1000
bytes) and you have 5 visitors everyday you will be using 5 MB (5000 bytes) everyday. When you have multiple pages
the traffic will increase depending on the number of pages visited by each person.
.ftp Program
Having purchased the web hosting services you have to transfer the web site files to the web hosting ISP server
from your computer. This is carried out using a program called .ftp which when expanded to mean file transfer
program. Most of the internet web site hosting services are equipped with built in .ftp services and number of
programs is available for this. Continuing on the parking lot analogy, you can say that .ftp program is similar to
the forklift that you use to put your products in the parking bay. .ftp program transfers files from your computer
to your website hosting server.
Choosing your internet web site hosting is not a child’s play; you have to consider many aspects carefully
before finalizing your ISP. Host
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