Hosting Services Demystified: What You Need to Know

 

What is this Web Hosting Service?

Planning to develop a Website for your business, launch a personal blog, create any 

social networking platform, or start an online shopping cart, the first step is to purchase 

a web hosting service and domain name.

Web hosting Service can be defined as online space provided by Hosting Providers on 

the internet to publish our web pages. In this space, we can save our files and 

databases which are maintained by web hosting providers. These web hosting 

providers use special techniques to secure our files and keep them online until we want. 

In simple words, as we store our files on personal computers, hosting providers use hi-fi 

computers to save them. These computers are called web servers and all the services 

provided by Web hosting providers called Web Hosting Services.

How does it work?

A user needs a mandatory internet connection to use this service. After getting an 

internet connection, he has chosen the right hosting service for him. There are three 

Types of hosting services.

• Free Web Hosting
• Share Web Hosting
• Dedicated Web Hosting

The user needs to choose the hosting service according to its requirements, like if he is 

planning any e-commerce website, he needs to choose a Dedicated server with SSL 

Certificate. Now after selecting the right service and developing its website, the user will 

type its address into the browser( Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox, Chrome, etc. ), the 

the computer will connect to the web server and the user can view the web page.

Some other things are also important when choosing a hosting service, like its

Uptime: The time taken by the file to get uploaded to the server.

Downtime: The time taken by the file to get the download from the server.

Server Language: While choosing a hosting service we must ensure which server 

language the user will use to develop our website, which means if it's PHP, PERL, or 

PYTHON then the user should go for LINUX Server base hosting service, on another 

hand if the user uses ASP as server language then go for WINDOWS Server base 

hosting service. The LINUX-based server supports MYSQL and PostgreSQL 

databases. Whereas WINDOWS Server base hosting service supports Microsoft SQL

Server and Access database.

Online Space: The total space given by the hosting provider, where you store your files.

Connection Limits: Especially for those websites in which your website visitors need to 

interact with your database regularly.

FTP Access: FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol, which is used to upload and 

download files from your server. You need to check your Hosting service provider how 

many FTP accounts?

Backup: Your hosting service should have the facility to provide backups of your files 

and database means they give you service to make duplicates of your files and 

database.

Email accounts: One is a major service, which means the user can create an email 

account with the domain name he registered with his web hosting service. For example 

info@domainame.com.Along with this, he can forward his emails or can set up POP3 or SMTP accounts.