ne easy and effective way you, have to live somewhere.
to explain "Web Hosting" is Next, Web hosting gives your site
to use apartments as an an address so people can find it
analogy. Why do people rent among the hundreds of millions of
apartments instead of buying a other Web pages that exist on the
house? The quick and easy answer Internet. Web hosting also
is that many people either can't normally (but not always)
afford to own their own house or provides people with a way to get
they don't think their specific in touch with you. This could be
needs require them to have a a Web form or an email address.
separate house. And don't forget And finally, Web hosting provides
the maintenance. It's really nice a service known as "bandwidth."
not to have to worry about fixing Bandwidth is the service that
the roof or mowing the lawn. So, transmits all of your site's data
a quick answer to the previous to each viewer. Transmitting that
question is "People rent kind of data requires a very
apartments because renting is the high-speed Internet connection
main option to buying when it and very stable (i.e. expensive)
comes to finding a home that computer hardware. All of these
meets their needs." services are supplied to a Web
site by a computer known as a
People use Web hosting for the "Web server." All Web sites, from
same reasons. Their Web site the largest to the smallest, use
needs a place to live. Why? Well, a Web server.
let's quickly define what Web
hosting service normally So, getting back to our apartment
includes. First, it provides a analogy, your Web site needs a
place for you to put all of your place to live and you need to
Web site files (HTML, and images decide whether to rent or buy.
for example). They, just like Why do people rent (i.e. use a
Web hosting service) instead of left to a professional Web
buying a Web Server? The answers designer/developer.
are the exact same as they were
when we were discussing Web hosting is an integral factor
apartments. First, Web servers in Web site ownership and
can be expensive. The expenses maintenance. Choosing the wrong
involved include the price of the Web hosting solution can be an
hardware itself and the expensive mistake. And don't
high-speed internet connection think I was being facetious when
required to process all of the I mentioned the roof and the
Web site's data. lawn. Web hosting companies
maintain the peek performance a
Another reason people use a Web Web server needs to quickly get a
hosting service is that their Web Web site to its viewers. And they
site doesn't need its own Web make back-up files of all Web
server. How do you decide that? site data so, if something does
Many Web sites are not large go wrong, their trained
enough (in file size) and do not professionals can have the Web
get enough visitors to justify site up and going again as fast a
having their own Web server. possible. Unless your company has
Other key factors in determining the money and the in-house
whether (and where) to host a Web expertise involved in maintaining
site include the programming your own Web server, finding a
language (example: HTML, ASP, good, reputable Web hosting
PHP, JSP, Cold Fusion, etc.) used company should be one of the
by the Web site and the type and first steps you take when you
size of any databases that the decide your company needs a Web
Web site may be using. site.
Determining a Web site's specific
hosting needs is usually best
About the Author:
Ed Ruth is a managing partner of Webulant Inc., a Web development and Web hosting company with offices in Atlanta, Georgia and Miami, Florida. Webulant specializes in the development, hosting and maintenance of database-driven Web sites. Webulant Web Design: http://www.webulant.com
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