Web Hosting Pt 01

What Every Web Site Owner Should Know WEB HOSTING Congratulations, in just a few short pages you have covered lot of ground. You know what registrars do and you understand what name servers are, it’s time to talk about Web hosting. Web hosting is simply the term applied to the process of publishing your website to the Internet; therefore, it’s no surprise that a Web host is a provider of Web hosting services. To elaborate; a Web server is a computer connected to the Internet that runs a special application (the actual Web server application) that “listens” to the Internet for a request for a Web page, file or other resource contained on one of the Websites the Web server controls. It then sends the appropriate information back over the Internet to the computer the requested it. That’s all there is to it. It is not magic, the Internet doesn’t just “run”, it is made up of millions and millions of individual Web servers. You should look for a hosting company that offers you services that will best suit your needs. Some hosts will offer and faster computers and/or faster connections (bandwidth), others will offer an array of different features and web space, while others will offer a rock bottom price. Depending upon the needs of your Website, how much content you plan to include; particularly; high quality graphics, audio (Podcasts), video (Vodcast) and other large, bandwidth intensive files and applications, will determine what kind of hosting package that you need.