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looking for the right web terms.
host you need to think about what
Disk space or Web Space refers
service you need. Are you an to how much actual hard disk
experienced webmaster or a space you are allowed to occupy
beginner? Those that are on your hosting companies web
experienced will be able to servers. Generally you have more
understand all the different than enough allocated to you than
features on offer from the you will actually need.
different webhost companies.
Bandwidth refers to how much
Beginners need to ensure that data transferring your web
have a webhost that offer hosting account allows to run
customer service where they can through you website. So if you
phone someone and speak to them have a home page with is 25 KB
regarding any queries. and someone visits your page,
Most webhosting companies that this will count at 25 KB of data
have phone support are aware that being transferred which means you
most people that call are new to will have used up 25 KB of your
web development so they are ‘bandwidth’. Now if 10 people
trained to deal with complete view you webpage then you will
novices. They will be able to have used up 250 KB of your
tell the experienced from the ‘bandwidth’. 1 to 5 GB bandwidth
beginner in the way they ask is enough for new websites. If
questions and will be armed with your sites starts to get hundreds
the right wording to explain what of thousands of ‘hits’ to your
you need to know.
site then you are getting lots of
If you’re a beginner but want traffic and might need to ask for
to know what all the features more bandwidth.
mean to different webhosting
An FTP account stands for file
transfer protocol. You need an will depend on the hosting
ftp account to log into and provider and what they offer.
upload files. This feature is
E-mail Forwarders are where
standard for all paid web hosting you can have a copy of any email
accounts as you are buying this you receive sent to another email
space so need an FTP account to account of your chose.
access it. You will need an FTP
An Auto responder is a
program like FTP surfer, or computer program that
CuteFTP which are free to automatically answers e-mail sent
download. Once you have signed up to it. This is good if you are
with a web hosting company you going on holiday and don’t want
will be given a username and to ignore any e-mail sent while
password which you will need to your away. You can set the auto
put into your FTP program to be responder up very easily to send
able to access and transfer your a message to everyone who emails
files.
you saying you’re on holiday and
POP3 Email accounts allows you will be back on a curtain date.
to create and setup emails It is also good for marketing if
accounts with the address being… you want every person that
whateveryouwant@yourdomain.com. contacts you to receive some
Some email accounts allow you to specific information.
choose what alias you want, alias
If your hosting account comes
being a nickname that you can with Control panel this will be
apply to an email account. You software installed for you the
could have one called webmaster to handle common tasks
sales@yourdomain.com or associated with webhosting. In
info@yourdomain.com or you could this section you can change
use names like passwords, create email accounts,
Carolyn@yourdomain.com. The alter file permissions, monitor
amount of email boxes you receive your bandwidth, add auto
responders, email forwarders’ and languages such as PHP to generate
check you statistics. If you have dynamic web pages which depend
a database you will be able to heavily on storing deleting and
access it via the control updating data.
panel
Crontabs or also known as cron
A database is a collection of jobs are programs that runs on
related information stored in a UNIX to run scheduled tasks.
computer in a systematic way. A These tasks could be one time
database typically has a events or recurring tasks. This
"backend" which is controlled by is good if you want to run a
administrators via passwords. The script to update a backup of your
"frontend" displays the content website.
to the final user. Some hosting
.htaccess is a simple ASCII
packages come with one or more file similar to those created in
databases and SQL to query the Notepad which is files that allow
data.
you to override certain server
MySQL stands for ‘structured configurations. Its main known
query language’ which is language use is related to implementing
used to talk to data stored in a custom error pages or password
database. If you have a database protected directories.
full of stock and you want query
If you are offered web stats
the database to find out how many on your hosting account then you
specific items you have, you will be able to access different
would use SQL. For example, if statistics relating to your
your database stored information website. Depending on what type
about shoes, and you wanted to of web statistics program is
know how many size 8 red shoes installed will depend on what
you have in stock, SQL would be stats you get. The type of
the best way to query the data. information you will be able to
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programming languages available speaking phone
to you and their support.
