What is Web Hosting?
Written by Author on May 21st, 2009
Web hosting (also known as Web site hosting, website and Webhosting), is the business of housing, serving, and maintaining files for a number of internet sites. More significant than the PC space that is provided for Web site files is the fast connection to the Net. Most hosting services offer connections on T-carrier system lines. Often an individual business hosting its own site will require a similar connection and it might be expensive. Using a web hosting service lets many companies share the cost of a fast Internet connection for serving files.
A number of Net access suppliers, for example America Online, offer subscribers free space for a small site site that is hosted by one of their computers. Geocities is a site site that offers registered visitors similar free space for a site. Whilst site. While these services are free, they are also very basic.
A number of net hosting corporations describe their services as virtual hosting. Virtual hosting often implies that their services will be transparent and that each Web site will have its own domain name and set of email addresses. In most uses, hosting and virtual hosting are synonyms. Some hosting companies let you have your own virtual server, the appearance that you are controlling a server that is dedicated entirely to your site.
Dedicated hosting is the provision of a dedicated server machine that is dedicated to the traffic to your site. Only very busy sites need dedicated hosting. Many companies purchase their own servers and place them on a site that provides fast access to the Net. This practice is called colocation.
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