Website Design and development

Web hosting faq's

Question: What is Web Hosting?
A: Web hosting is the act of renting space and bandwidth through a company so that you may publish your web site online. You can either opt for free hosting that is usually supported with banners and pop ups, or may opt to get paid web hosting, which gives you complete control over your site contents.

Question: What exactly is space and bandwidth/data transfer?
A: Disk space is the size your website can be. Every single letter on your website has to be stored somewhere on your web host's server. Each letter is one byte, and a megabyte is roughly one million bytes. HTML pages are usually very small, but it is the extra images, scripts, and even databases that can take up large amounts of disk space.

Bandwidth/Transfer is the amount of data the server will allow your site to send in a month.
Transfer is usually measured in gigabytes - billions of bytes. Once you go over your monthly limit, a host may either shut your site down for the remainder of the month or it can charge you 'overage.

Question: What are sub domains?
A: Sub domains are extension of your domain. For example, your site is www.abc.com. A sub domain would be test.abc.com, and another would be webhosting.abc.com.

Sub domains are usually treated as separate sites from the main domain site

Question:What is the difference between UNIX hosting and Windows hosting?
A: Depending on which operating system to go with depends on your needs. If you need to support Microsoft products such as ASP, MS Access, or VB Script, then Windows hosting would be better. Furthermore, if you are comfortable with IIS and do not have the time to understand how UNIX works, Windows hosting would again be a better choice. There is something to remember. Just because you use Windows at home does not mean you should use Windows hosting. The two are completely different, and having a Windows system at home will not affect your ability to communicate with a UNIX server.
 

 
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