Web Hosting

Web Hosting, a service provided by Logiweb Internet Services, a website design, development and online marketing company selling a variety of services including e-commerce, hosting facilities and domain names.

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What is web hosting. Web hosting is a service that places your web site on a computer which is connected to the internet. Web hosting gives people who surf the internet a way to access your website. The computer that the web hosting company uses is typically just like the computer you have at home, the only difference being that it is set up to serve up web sites and is therefore called a web hosting "server".

Web hosting will typically have a fast connection to the Internet and they may host thousands of web sites on many servers. Web hosting essentially rents out space to you so that you can get your website up on the world wide web.

Some large web hosting companies own their own datacenter (collection of servers), some web hosting companies rent a server from a larger web hosting company and then resell the space under their own company name. In this case the web hosting company will manage your account on the web hosting server, but they will be renting the actual web hosting space from another much larger company. Most web hosting companies do not own a datacenter, but rent web hosting space in a datacenter.

There are literally thousands of web hosting companies available in the market, all with different types of web hosting plans and at different prices. It can be hard to wade through all the web hosting options, especially if you are completely new to web hosting and just want to get your website up on the web. All web hosting plans have some basic common features.

Server Type: This is the type of server software that is running on the web hosting server.
Windows 2000 server, Linux and Unix are common web hosting server types. If you have a basic website then the web hosting server type does not matter. If you have a more complex website that has database functions and serves up dynamic pages, then the web hosting server type will be more important.
Disk Space: This is the amount of actual space available to you for storing your website on the web hosting server hard drive.
Bandwidth / Month: This is a measure of how much website traffic is available to you with your web hosting. Every time somebody looks at your website, data has to be passed over the Internet from the web hosting server to the browser of the person looking at your site. Bandwidth is a measure of how much transfer is available.
Email Accounts: How many email accounts you can have with the web hosting account.

Different Kinds Of Web Hosting. There are different kinds of web hosting setups and dependent upon your website and budget, any of these web hosting options may be the right type. This is not a discussion of the features a web hosting plan may offer - just a description general types of web hosting.

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1. Free Web Hosting. It is possible to get free web hosting accounts. These are great for small websites, but normally you have to have a banner ad at the top of every page. Some web hosting free accounts let you use your domain name (free virtual hosting) and with some free web hosting your website address is a subdomain of the free hosting company (www.yoursitename.freehosting.com).

2. Shared web hosting. This is the most common type of web hosting account and can be very low cost. With paid shared (virtual) web hosting you pay a monthly fee and get a share of web hosting on a server. For very low cost plans you may only have a small amount of disk space and a low amount of bandwidth (although this will probably not be a problem for the vast majority of websites). With cheap virtual web hosting plans you may be one site amongst hundreds on the same web hosting server - in this case reliability may suffer. For slightly more expensive web hosting plans you will probably find better reliability.

3. Dedicated web hosting. With dedicated web hosting you have a full web hosting server dedicated to your website. This gives you a lot more freedom and you can host potentially hundreds of your own websites. Typically you will have access to the web hosting server just like you have access to your PC at home. Dedicated web hosting servers are normally reserved for large ecommerce type websites, sites that get a lot of visitors (thousands a day), or for people that want to start their own web hosting company and sell shared web hosting accounts. A dedicated web hosting server is more reliable, but also much more expensive.

4. Colocated Hosting. This is very similar to dedicated web hosting, except that you own the web hosting server rather than rent it. Your web hosting server is placed in the datacenter and connected to the Internet through the web hosting providers fast Internet connection. You will then pay a fee for maintenance and bandwidth.

So What Web Hosting Plan Is The Right One To Buy?

You have a lot of choices in the web hosting market and it can be very confusing to find the best deal that meets your needs.

The 1st step before you start to look for a web hosting company is to determine what your needs are. It can be very tempting to look for web hosting plans that offer everything. There are many such d web hosting eals available, even at a low price, but you will be storing up trouble for yourself. Take a step back and determine exactly what you need.

There are many web hosting directories on the web. They all claim to be great web hosting resources. For the most part they are great resources...for the web hosting companies, but not for you, the web hosting consumer. Almost all of these web hosting directories are a place where web hosting companies advertise and they are in business only to generate advertising income from web hosting companies. For the consumer they are worthless because you can not find any unbiased information.