What is Web Hosting?
( sometimes called internet site hosting, website and Webhosting ), is the business of housing, serving, and maintaining files for one or more Web sites. More important sites. More important than the computer space that is provided for Internet site files is the fast connection to the Internet. Most hosting services offer connections on T-carrier system lines. Typically, an individual business hosting its own site will require a similar connection and it would be pricey. Employing a web hosting service lets many firms share the price of a fast Net connection for serving files.
A number of Net access suppliers, for example America Online, offer subscribers free space for a small Web site site that is hosted by one of their PCs. Geocities is a Web site site that offers registered visitors similar free space for an internet site. Whilst these services are free, they are also very basic.
A number of web hosting corporations describe their services as virtual hosting. Virtual hosting often implies that their services will be transparent and that each internet site will have its own domain name and set of email addresses. In most uses, hosting and virtual hosting are synonyms. Some hosting firms let you have your own virtual server, the appearance that you are controlling a server that is dedicated entirely to your site.
Dedicated hosting is the provision of a dedicated server machine that is dedicated to the traffic to your internet site. Only really busy sites need dedicated hosting. Many companies purchase their own servers and place them on a site that provides fast access to the Net. This practice is called colocation.
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