Web Page Hosting

Posted by admin on 28 March, 2009

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Personal Web Page Hosting Services

Executive summary about web page hosting by Navneet Brar

Personal Web Page Hosting is a way of providing home to your Website on Web servers, which are stored in a secure and controlled environment permanently connected to the Internet so that other people on the internet can view and browse your web site.

A computer that servers web pages over the internet is called web server. These web hosting servers that store and delivers web pages to the internet cost money to setup, maintain and configure that is why web hosting providers charge some monthly or yearly fees as a rent to host your web site on their web servers.

Some web site hosting providers provide free web hosting but there are many drawbacks of free web hosting:

1. They place ads on your web pages to earn revenue.
2. They offer some costly web packages to offer free web hosting.
3. Free web hosting providers do not bother about client satisfaction and technical support.
4. Some business web hosting providers offer freebies to upgrade to costly web hosting package.

To obtain web hosting space you have to go through some steps of membership registration, terms and agreement of internet service provider. Once you fulfill all these conditions, you are given all access and authentication to your web space. You can login to your control panel to create your email mailboxes, databases and upload your website so that it can be accessed on the internet.

Web Page Hosting – 3 Must Have Features

Executive summary about web page hosting by JR Lang

Three Important Features of a Good Web Page Hosting Provider

1. Uptime vs. Downtime – The lower the downtime or higher the uptime the better the hosting company! Obviously a web host that can provide a 99% uptime is better than those that deliver 90%.

2. Good Customer Service and Support – There will always be technical issues and there must be reliable, knowledgeable and available people on the other end to answer questions and provide the necessary support. Two important types of technical supports are live chat and phone support. A good way to test the host before buying is to access their support and see how long it takes for them to answer.

3. Most Services for a Low Price – A good hosting company will offer the most features for the lowest price. Some of the important services to look for are:
a) Lots of hosting space and bandwidth – unlimited is best
b) Hosting of unlimited domains for one low monthly price.
c) Hosting options, such as regular, reseller and dedicated.
d) My SQL Databases
e) CGI, PHP 5, RoR, Perl
f) No contracts or hidden fees and ample refund time policy.
g) C-Panel hosting – Where you can easily access controls, features and your files and folders.

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