What is Web Hosting?
Suppose you want to start a website and you have already bought a catchy domain for your next big business idea. Eg mynextbigidea.com and you are eager to start your online business. So what next?
( Haven’t bought a domain yet? No worries.
These are some of the websites where you can easily search a domain name and buy within minutes.)
Coming back to the main topic webhosting- What is webhosting?
Buying the domain is the first step!
Buying a web hosting server is the second step!
(Check out these webhosting products which offer a free domain name with webhosting)
Web hosting is a service that allows you to post your brand new website or web page on to the Internet.
Basically a webpage is a collection of text and media ie images, videos, animation etc and hyperlinks. All these data need to be stored somewhere. Web hosting is the solution. You basically host your entire website on a web server.
A web server is similar to hard disk on your computer but they are dedicated and special servers managed by webhosting companies to host a website.
A Web host company, or web hosting service provider, is a business that provides these servers and technologies and services needed for the website or webpage to be viewed in the Internet. Websites are hosted, or stored, on special computers called servers.
When any of your internet customer or viewer of your website wants to open your website they will type your website url into their browser. At this point the browser connects the internet user with the Website/ webpage stored on the web server you have chosen.
So it is basically keeping your website onto a dedicated hard disk (web server) and with a web hosting company which makes sure the website is always on and provides you the basic tools eg cpanel etc to manage your website.
This is webhosting.
A webhosting company offers different webhosting products (services) according to the needs of the customer. For eg your needs will vary and wont be as big as big established company say eg Big Automobile company, or Big Ecommerce Company with millions of customers. So there are different tiers of products to choose from.
If you are a novice just starting your own business you can look at the basic webhosting products here.
A web hosting product has different attributes and additional services for you to decide which suits your website best. Eg Disk space, Bandwidth, email, SSL etc
We have discussed them in Attributes of Web hosting.
Again the web hosting servers and technology come in different kinds.
Eg Shared web hosting
Cloud hosting
VPS hosting etc
Here you can look at the different types of web hosting solutions !
So Why wait?
Buy your web hosting product now and don’t delay your next big idea !!!