What
is website
hosting?
Website
hosting
is the space provided
on servers for your website files or pages, the servers are generally
rackmount and are more stable and built to a much higher standard than
the type of computer that you would use at home for general internet
usage.
There are many different levels of web hosting, shared hosting
is the most
common type of hosting service, where many clients or websites will
share the same server and its IP address. For websites that use very
high traffic or receive many visits there is dedicated
server
hosting or VPS hosting so
that the one website has its own unique IP address and it has the
abitily to use all of the servers resources when it is in demand. If
you are starting a new online business you will probably only
require a shared hosting service inititally, you will just need to
match your hosting plan to your requirements!.
If you just wish to have brochure based website then you can probably
go for the smallest/cheapest web hosting package, if you want to sell
products online and take your clients credit card details securely
online you will probably require a MySQL database and secure server
access.
