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Webhosting is a highly competitive field where only those who provide quality service succeed . Quality support increases customer retention which is as important as new customer acquisition.
There is no hard and fast rule on how to provide support. However for a startup webhosting company, its better to be aware of the options available. This article would show how effectively support can be provided with the limited resources available. Many of the ideas and points in this article would help all those who are presently stuck up running their businesses from their homes to foray into this business in a organized way and make it big.

While deciding on how to provide the support, the same rules don't apply everywhere. Larger hosting companies should be handled differently from smaller hosts. If you are a newbie ask yourself the following questions.

1) How many hours can you spend daily for providing support ?

2) What is the level of technical skill you have ?

3) What is your support budget?

4) Are your clients more technically proficient than you are?

5) What are the technical services you would like to provide ?

The answers to the above question will help in deciding what support system is to be used . Lets see how the answers to each question would influence the plan.

After planning the design and content of your website, it's time to actually physically set up your website. This is the step where you put all your designs and plans into action, creating a website that will attract visitors and earn income.

WEBHOSTING

A webhost is a company that stores the pages and pictures and other files of your website. When a person visits your website, they will request these files from your webhost's server so they can view the website. When choosing a webhost, be careful to choose one that is reliable. After all, if your webhost has problems for any reason, people won't be able to visit your website, and you won't be earning any money.

In addition, different webhosts have varying services and tools that they offer. Some of the more important points to consider when choosing a webhost are as follows:

* SPACE AND BANDWIDTH - Space refers to how much file storage space is available for your website. For a standard website with about 20 pages with graphics, 30MB is plenty. Online stores might require more space depending on how many products and pictures you have. Bandwidth refers to how many files can be downloaded and viewed by visitors per month. A normal website with reasonable traffic (200 visitors a day) will need about 2GB bandwidth. Again, if you own a business with lots of products and webpages, you might need more bandwidth.

* DOMAINS AND SUBDOMAINS - Usually, webhosting accounts are charged per domain, with $10 per domain being a reasonable price. However, you can buy larger hosting packages that allow you to host multiple domains and websites on the same account. Subdomains are just different sections of your website's domain, with 5 subdomains the rough standard. You will need to make sure how many domains your account entitles you for, in order to calculate which is the better webhosting package.

* EMAILS AND AUTORESPONDERS - Emails are the various email addresses that visitors can write to you. Most websites will use about 2 or 3 emails (maybe a webmaster email and a support email). Autoresponders are email addresses that will reply someone with an automatic email. You will only need autoresponders if you are on vacation and wish to leave an automated reply in case anybody emails you.

* SCRIPTS - If you want to add extra functionality (such as forums or polls), you will need to be able to run scripts. Make sure your webhost allows you to run scripts for your website. The more common scripts are Java, PHP, Perl and CGI.

There are a number of companies out there that offer free webhosting, but they usually have severe limitations, and might place their own ads on your website. If you are serious in building your internet business, it is recommended to sign up for a proper webhosting service. We recommend HostGator, which provides different levels of webhosting depending on your requirements and budget, with various useful tools as well. In any case, you shouldn't be paying more than $10 a month per domain for basic webhosting services.

PROGRAMMING

Some people with sufficient HTML knowledge use word processing programs to directly code the HTML for their websites. For the rest of us who don't have such skill, we recommend one of the popular graphical programs like Macromedia Dreamweaver or Microsoft Frontpage. These programs allow you to create your webpages with mouse clicks with little need for knowledge in HTML.

If you want to make your website look like another website, you can "copy" their HTML and modify it to fit your website. In Internet Explorer, click the "View" menu, then click the "Source" option. This will show you the HTML code for the website. You will need some HTML knowledge to make sense of this and use it on your website.

If you need more information and examples on the many things that HTML can do, you can visit the online tutorial at W3Schools.

FILE ORGANIZATION AND TRANSFER

Once you have your webhosting set up and your webpages completed, you need to transfer the completed pages to your webhosting server. If you are using a graphical program like Dreamweaver to work on your webpages, you can configure Dreamweaver to transfer the files for you.

If you are doing it manually, you need to transfer the files via FTP. Your webhost will provide you with an FTP server, with a user id and password for you to access your account on the webhost. Once you connect to the account via FTP, you will be able to upload (transfer files from your computer to the server) or download (transfer files from the server to your computer) or modify files as required.

You can FTP to the server using your computer's Windows Explorer, by entering the FTP server's address in your explorer's Address Toolbar. Or you can use specialized FTP programs such as AceFTP.

ADDITIONAL SCRIPTS

If you want to add extra functionality to your website, such as polls, newsletter subscription forms and other interactive programs, you will need to install scripts onto your website.
If you are looking for scripts to create a newsletter mailing list, do note that some webhosting services also provide mailing list scripts. If your webhost doesn't provide it, BigNoseBird has a good email list management software.

For other scripts and functionality, you can check out the popular scripts at websites such as BigNoseBird and HotScripts.

It really depends on the individual needs. However, there are some subtle and yet important points (I think) you should consider.

I believe there are more than enough reviews out there telling you regarding the bandwidth, space, email accounts, scripts, and many many more... while considering sign up for a webhosting plan.

Undoubtedly, these are very important factors. However, the 24x7 professional LIVE support, prompt attention to problem raised and accuracy problem solving are equally important. And also, the availability of working demo site is playing a vital part in deciding webhosting plan as well.

Professional LIVE Support

This is extremely important because while there is problem occurred such as the website is not accessible. Of course, you would like to know the cause of problem and when the problem would be solved immediately, especially we are living in this fast-pace society. How could you reach the support almost immediately? Definitely, email is out the answer. Phone calling is next best way of reaching the support. However, this is could be a very expensive way for overseas customers. Hence, the "Live Chat" is the best way of reaching the support for everyone.

"Live Chat" is a web-based instant messaging feature (a way of communication over the internet) which is similar to MSN Web Messenger. It is usually embedded on the webhosting website. Whenever you want to reach support for any question, you just need to click on the "Live Chat", a pop window (usually) would start loading. And you can start chatting with the support once it's ready.

Eventually, it still comes down to the professionalism of the support, how accurate and fast s/he can tackle and resolve your problems. Hence, please ensure that you really do try the "Live Chat" of the webhosting company, but not just see it's available on the website and make a tick on your webhosting plan consideration checklist.

Working Demo Site

There are so many excellent webhosting companies' webmaster who can writes how fantastic webhosting plan they have, how perfect their supports are, and etc. However, as first-time visitor, how do you know whether all these are truly true? Of course, you can search for reviews of others who have tried it before. But, the credibility of those reviews are really subjective. I would say the old -fashioned hand-on experience is still the most practical way of justification. Hence, a working demo site provided from the webhosting company would be just as perfect! Visitors could have the hands-on experience of what s/he is going to have after the sign-up.

Well, that's it folks! These are the 2 points that I strongly suggest that you should put in your checklist of choosing a webhosting company.

The term "dynamic virtual host" is a fairly simple concept that is surprisingly hard to describe. There are a few related ideas that will have to be explained first in order to create a clear picture of the concept.

One of the most economical forms of hosting for small-scale applications is virtual hosting, which is a deviation from the normal hosting setup. The Internet usually assumes that a given IP address represents a simple, isolated machine. In this ideal setup, every website on the Internet would require its own machine and its own IP address. Such a system would create two problems: each website would require a lot of hardware and each site would eat up an IP address. Virtual hosting consolidates the use of resources by making it possible for a single server, and often a single IP address, to maintain different domains and web sites.

On the server side of the operation, each machine is partitioned so that the data corresponding to multiple domains and websites are stored on one system. Sometimes the server operating system will associate each partition with a specific network adapter so that each domain will be able to have its own IP address (as in IP-based virtual hosting). An even cheaper method is to make each partition accessible through as single network adapter and IP address by having connection requests include the IP address and the hostname (name-based virtual hosting).

Traditionally, and in the most reliable setups, the IP address involved will be static, which is to say the machine always uses the same IP address. The difference in the case of a dynamic virtual host is that the server software used to maintain the system is designed to dynamically configure the necessary connections. The advantage of this kind of server implementation is that it will automatically assign IP address to resources that require them. This makes the setup process, in some ways, much simpler and it also allows different IP-based functions to be activated without restarting the server or manually entering IP addresses.

The difficulty is that, if you want to host webpages on such a server, the software will also need the capability to update a DNS server with the relevant IP addresses as they change and every time they change. Changes in the IP address assigned to a domain can potentially make resources difficult to find until DNS servers that have cached the old IP address are updated or reset.

The main advantage of a dynamic virtual host is that it simplifies the administration of servers that typically run many temporary IP-based applications that would otherwise each require complicated setup procedures. There is a certain plug-and-play quality to the functionality to a dynamically configured virtual host that makes them attractive in certain circumstances.

Well, let me share some thoughts regarding hosting. You SHOULD get your own webspace if you want to run it professionally. Don't use any free webspace with weird sounding, endless domain names. Don't be stingy and invest a few bucks! There are a whole lot of packages available. For a start you just take a small package, if you consider using Joomla, remember the need for a database in your package!

The idea is to create your own website, then create websites for your customers. You do the job, you charge the customer. Charge them more than you pay for their package, since you will administrate the whole site anyway. If you have reached a certain amount of customers, you might want to think about getting a dedicated server.

The advantage is simple: You are more flexible and able to tailor your packages according to your individual customers needs. Moreover the MySQL - databases are unlimited (of course there is a memory and CPU constraint at a certain point of time).

One CON about an own server is the maintenance. Since I am not a Linux-guru, I decided to get a "managed" server. This option is more expensive than a "root"-server, but the provider will install all relevant updates and security patches for me automatically and even assist me on technical problems. Make sure you have the full root access though and not limited user access rights.

You should do some research for providers before you choose to get a package. Let me tell you something, you still have to have luck....or not having bad luck. Reason? You should be able to find a good hoster due to top ten lists, reviews etc. But signing up with the best hoster doesn't mean you won't have problems....just like signing up with a cheap hoster does not necessarily mean your site will be offline most of the time and the service sucks.

It's not easy, well out of my experience I can say that I have been with both and had my fair share of happy times and not so happy times with them.

Overall you should still get the better service with the quality and more expensive hoster, but if you run into a huge problem, your site might be down just like any other.

If you take a look at the reviews of those hosters, you will for sure find few bad reviews within the top hosters as well. People claiming that their server has been offline for days, the service team is not responding at all etc. At the same time people replying, that this is the best hoster they have ever been with.

Many free web hosting accounts are free to use, however they will cost you a lot of money, time, and customers as well if you have a site that is meant for business purposes and is more than the simplest site imaginable. Consider the following items as to why free web hosting might cost you more than you had bargained for when you signed up.

Consideration 1 Bandwidth

Frequently, free web hosting providers offer you little bandwidth which means it will take longer for your page to load. When your page takes more than 10 seconds to load you will lose visitors because they will simply move on. Because of this, you might lose a lot of customers and sales from your free web host.

Consideration 2 Advertising

Many free web hosting companies are “free” to you, however, you will have advertising posted on your website as well as pop up ads. Most people do not like this and will not visit your site because of it. Be careful about signing up with a free web hosting company that uses advertising. It might not bother you, but it will probably affect your traffic and sales.

Consideration 3 Web Space

Since the web host is free, you cannot expect a whole lot of web space. Frequently people do not have the space they need to upload their web page and include all of their information. Be sure to check with your free web space provider or the ones you are considering to make sure you will have enough web space to host all of the required elements of your web pages.

Consideration 4 Reliability

Another consideration with free web hosting companies is reliability. Often times limitations are put on your traffic flow and if you exceed this, your site may be disabled for a period of time or you may even receive a bill. Find out what the rules are for traffic and what the consequences are for exceeding your limits.

Consideration 5 Limitations

More often than not, your free web host will have rules regarding the size of photos, icons, and more that you can upload. You will want to check into this before you sign up for free web hosting because if you cannot upload what you need, it is time to look at other options.

While free web hosting is technically free, it frequently costs websites more money in the long run because it limits activity and business from occurring at the rate set by consumers. Because of this, if you have a growing site it will eventually be too big for the free account and you will have to make some changes. Instead of dealing with the hassle, figure out if a free server will really be worthwhile and make a plan for change and growth ahead of time.

Hostgator web hosting has gone from zero to hero. In a short time, Hostgator has accelerated to becoming a major player on the web hosting scene, with over 1 million customers achieved earlier this year. Most web hosting forums are flooded with people generally pleased with their service and helping Hostgator via their constant positive mentions. The secret, may be that Hostgator may have simply gone back to the basics of web hosting. What makes a good web hosting business? Price, features, and customer service would be the three main components of a great web hosting service, then marketing that business comes in as the final component. In evaluating Hostgator these basics of the webhosting industry must be taken into account before any more advanced analysis is done.

Regarding pricing, Hostgator is certainly competitive. While they offer plans starting at $4.95 a month, considering it only allows one domain it's really not doable for the majority of webmasters. The $7.95 domain jumps drastically up and allows unlimited domains so it will fulfill most casual webmastering needs, and all of them allow unlimited FTP accounts, so you won't be constrained at any price.

Next up, features, and Hostgator sure does have many of those. The one that truly stands out to me was the unlimited MYSQL databases, which I thought I would never use, but if you run many websites and want to seperate the databases you can use many very quickly. 1&1 hosting for example only allows 100 with their most expensive non-dedicated plan, much more expensive than Hostgator's. Hostgator offers PHP 5, SSI, Ruby on Rails, SSH, Python, cURL, Chilisoft ASP, JSP support, or even free module installation (not all webhosts offer free installation).

In the customer service department, Hostgator soars above all others. On every issue experienced, Hostgator dealt with in a quick, even daresay, intelligent manner. From even at four in the morning, one can talk to a service representative online, who is able to handle surprisingly complex issues.

This leads to the fourth component, marketing. A recent venture into becoming a "green web hosting" effort, combined with charitable donations and free hosting given to non-profits may help provide the clean image that can help encourage customers to promote them. And thanks to their superior customer service, online forums everywhere are abuzz with positive reviews of Hostgator, giving them the acclaim they need. And the relative lack of Hostgator complaints compared to other web hosting companies also helps bolster their image. This will cut down the marketing costs needed to garner a good public image, and is a tremendous boon to their business, and perhaps the key of their success lies in the positive spin that their great customer service allows them.

Now here's where it gets interesting and where your choices really open up. I suggest that you only stick with the paid for webhost that I recommend, as I've tried them, spent money with them and used thme for a long time, but I'll get to specific ones later.

Let's start with the benefits:
You can have your own domain name i.e. pick whatever you want it to be and if it isn't already taken, then it's yours.

You have full control over your website i.e. the look and feel and you can customize anything and everything you like, providing you have the skills to do so.

You can have MANY more people come to your website, as your bandwidth limit will be much higher.

If you have the skills to, you can put a forum up, which will give you're website users a place to discuss things, most free webshosts don't allow this.

You can use ftp (File transfer protocol), this might not seem like much, but it makes it a lot easier and quicker to add new files and update or delete old ones. As they say, time is money.

No annoying pop-ups or intrusive ads that have nothing to offer your visitors. Instead you can put your own ads up and rake in all the money. I'll explain how to do this in the "Make Money From Your Website" section.
You'll also normally get much better and quicker support. You are paying them after all.

Now for the draw backs:

Obviously, it costs money. However, compared to the amount of money you can potentially make from a website, it's really not a big deal.
It can also be perhaps a little overwhelming at first, but this soon passes and you get stuck in after a while.

So lets review:

This time as you can see, the benefits far outweigh the drawbacks. If you intend to be successful and run a business online, or run a website where you wish to make money, looking professional is of upmost importance. Paying for webhosting allows you to do this, because you have more control over the look and feel of your website and you will have a proper domain name.

So if you're going to run a website that you want to make money from, paying for webhosting is a MUST. There's no maybe's about it. You simply have to pay for webhosting if you want to be successful.

Costs:

The above 2 summaries should have helped you decide which type of hosting is for you.

At the end of this article, I'll recommend a few webhosts which you should take a look at. For now, I want to keep you informed about the costs of running a website with paid for hosting.

A decent webhost company charges about $77. That's $5 for a new domain name and $72 for the 1 year's webhosting.

For some people reading this, that might sound like a lot, for others it will be small change. Either way it's a bargain for what you get. Not to mention that if you follow my advice in the "Make Money From Your Website" section of my website, you can potentially make more than that in a month, then the rest of the year you're in profit.

Everyone is looking for new ways to make money online these days, web hosting is one way you can make passive income to help pay the bills. There are many established web hosting companies offering "reseller hosting" packages that allow you to become your own web host and offer hosting services to your own clientele. Basically you set up your own hosting package that includes a certain amount of bandwidth and storage space, then you can sub-divide that package into smaller hosting plans for your own clients.

What are some of the benefits of reseller hosting

Unlike most business models, reselling hosting services has almost no overhead whatsoever so you can get started right away without having the initial costs that usually come with a traditional business. There is no need to pay rent for commercial space, no need for employees, and no need to purchase any type of equipment like servers or state-of-the-art computers. The infrastructure is in place already, the established web host has their own team of technical experts charged with the task of ensuring that the servers are working and that the service is available at all times.

Most hosting companies allow you to quickly and easily set up new accounts for your customers, so they each have control of their own cpanel. Even the billing of your customers is made effortless with assorted customer billing systems, that way you can easily receive your monthly payments through a service like PayPal.

So bottom line, as a reseller it is very attainable to be profitable even on a very small scale and as your customer-base grows so will your profits.

What are the challenges of being a reseller

The main challenge in reselling is acquiring new customers, the web hosting market is extremely competitive and the is no shortage of web hosting companies to choose from. What many people do is provide hosting services within their own network of family and friends. Another option is to avoid the over saturated hosting advertising online by simply advertising locally in media like local newspapers. You don't need hundreds of customers to turn a profit, your company can be as big or as small you you want.

Does this actually make money

Start out small with a few customers and make some passive income, even with just a couple of customers you can get your own hosting payed for and maybe make a little money in the meantime. You can start out with a standard $24.95/mo reseller plan, which would provide you with 250GB of bandwidth and sub-divide it in amounts that make sense for your customers. You can upgrade your plan easily if you outgrow it, allowing you to grow incrementally as your customer-base grows.

For Example: If you have a reseller account at $24.95/mo and 250 GB of bandwidth, you can easily sub-divide that into 15 hosting packages for $10/mo (each account gets over 16GB of bandwidth/mo). Your investment of $24.95 just became $150 with very little effort. Even on this small scale, that's $1500 of profit for the year AND no charge to host your own websites. Not bad!

Now go out there and make some money! This is a great way for you to generate passive monthly revenue without having to spend all the time and effort to maintain a traditional business.

Cpanel is a web-based control panel complete with all the features that enables you to manage your web hosting space and domain name through the web interface. What this does is to give you more control, manage and access your web site. With it you can manage all aspects of email files, FTP, CGI scripts and web site statistics. Cpanel webhosting uses state of the art webhosting control panel system and has a number of features which include user-friendly web based interface (GUI) aside from those mentioned above. The control panel is designed for the end users of the system which allows them complete control on the control panel system.
This interface has back-up features for web site such as back-up and restore. It allows several email functions such as add, remove and change password. This tpe of webhosting also has webmail for all accounts, auto responders, mail filtering, forwarders, mailing lists, spam filtering and modify MX entry.
This hosting can provide statistics such as web stats, FTP stats, analog stats, AWstats, latest visitors, bandwidth usage, error log and raw log file.
It can manage FTP accounts, controls anonymous FTP, change FTP login message and end FTP sessions.
Cpanel webhosting has different tools for site such as web protect, change site and frontpage password, custom error pages, redirect functions, edit MIME types, edit Apache Handlers, install and uninstall FrontPage Extensions, search engine submit and file manager.
This interface can add, remove, redirects and provides statistics for sub-domains and also has advanced tools such as SSH access, manage GPG keys and Cron jobs.
Offering features for pre-installed CGI scripts such as interchange cart, Agora cart, Bulletin Board, java chat, Html chat, phpMy Chat, CGI Wrapper, random HTML generator, advanced guestbook, generators for counter, java clock and java countdown, secure FormMail clone, cgiemail, entropy search and banner.
Network tools such as DNS Lookup and Traceroute are included and offers data management features such as manage MySql and php MyAdmin Access.
The interfaces are available in several languages. Along with Web Host Manager (WHM) CPanel provides easy use for both reseller hosting and web hosting. This makes managing the site quite easy for you. It allows multi site hosting ability aside from its multi-features. It has a wide range of functions to manage your website effectively.

Web hosting providers often come from via a suggestion by your website designer. In fact, many webmasters require that if you use a web hosting company of their choice or their own dedicated in-house server. Many webmasters claim to have major compatibility and access issues if they have to work with a secondary host outside their network.
For instance, if you were to develop a new website using a free or low cost website development system, you would be likely to find your web hosting to be with the company that allowed you to develop the site using their exclusive tools.
If a web hosting service is preferred by your website designer, it may be in your best interest to verify the overall web hosting provider's functionality. Also, look at the perceived reliability of the web hosting service before you give the ok to move forward with that provider. You can have a web designer develop a great website, but could drive customers away because of frequent online outages and other reliability problems.
The best case scenario is the combination between web design functionality and accompanying web hosting services. Regardless, you should always check the credentials of the website designer as well as the web hosting providers capabilities for your current and future website needs.
Unfortunately many web hosting providers completely overload their servers to save money and often run into recurring periods of downtime. Does your web host provide sufficient bandwidth to allow for website growth, or do they make bandwidth easy to upgrade to?
Some websites experience rapid growth, but by having a web hosting provider that is not capable of keeping up with the traffic demands it's a major issue.
Most web hosting providers have system contingencies in place to manage the growth of your website needs. However, don't take these things for granted. Make sure to ask questions so you can make an informed decision about the quality, reliability and effectiveness of the web hosting service you select.

A game server is a remotely or locally run server used by game clients to play multi player video games. Most video games played over the Internet operate via a connection to a game server.

Game Server Hosting:

Game server providers (GSPs) are companies that lease game servers. Gaming clans will often lease one or more servers for their chosen game, with members of the clan contributing to the server rental fees. Game server providers often offer Web tools to control and configure the game servers; most allow those that rent or lease to modify the games being leased.

Linux hosting is an alternative to using Microsoft Windows-based technology for operating a website. Linux is an open-source operating system, which means the code that makes it run is publicly available. This means computer experts all over the world can share ways of improving how the system works. Although it is more complicated to understand than Windows, most computer experts say Linux is much more reliable and less likely to 'crash'. This makes it particularly useful for running websites.

Linux hosting makes use of several technologies:

* PHP is a programming language which produces dynamic web pages. These are pages which can change in appearance and content in response to something the person viewing it does (such as filling in a form). PHP is a server-side language, meaning the program runs on the server (the computer that physically stores the website) rather than the computer being used to view the page.

* MySQL is a database system used for websites. It can be used for features such as a real estate company letting site visitors search for properties of a certain size and cost. It is used by popular sites such as Craigslist and LiveJournal.

* Python is a programming language which is well-regarded among many programmers. It is relatively sophisticated, but is easier to understand than many programming languages. Python often uses common English words where other languages simply use symbols. Python also gives programmers the ability to make a draft alteration to a program and check the effects immediately without having to make the change permanent.

* XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a more flexible method of organizing the information that makes up a website. With the old HTML system, each piece of information is labeled only for appearance (for example 'bold' or 'italic'). With XML, any type of label can be used. For example, in a page containing a recipe, a piece of text could be labeled as 'ingredient' or 'safety warning'. XML means that a website owner has much more control over the information on their site.

The web hosting companies listed on this page provide Windows web hosting services. Windows web hosts offer web hosting plans that run on that Windows Server platform and support Microsoft programming languages such as .ASP and .NET. Current versions of Windows Server also support PHP. In addition, the Windows platform supports the use of MS Access and MSSQL databases alongside a range of other solutions developed by Microsoft.

Shared Web Hosting: Shared web hosting is the most common type of hosting. With shared hosting, multiple websites are shared on one server. The shared host splits up server resources among many customers in order to defer the cost. Typically, all domains may share a common pool of server resources, such as RAM and the CPU or processor. This means that the shared host accounts are more affordable. In other words, it provides a customer with a limited amount of server space to create their web site. Bandwidth and storage space is distributed among many clients, who all "share" the same physical server.
Virtual Private Server or VPS Web Hosting: A virtual private server (VPS) is a method of partitioning a physical server computer into multiple servers that each has the capabilities of running on its own dedicated machine. Dividing a server into virtual servers, where each user feels like they're on their own dedicated server, but they're actually sharing a server with many other users. The users may have root access to their own virtual space. This is also known as a virtual private server or VPS. Virtual private servers bridge the gap between shared web hosting services and dedicated hosting, giving independence from other customers of the VPS service in software terms but at less cost than a dedicated server. As a VPS runs its own operating system, customers have super user-level access to that operating system instance, and can install almost any software for that system.
Dedicated Web Hosting: Dedicated hosting allows a website to have its very own server. This is more flexible than shared hosting, as webmasters have full control over the back end of the server, including choice of operating System. the user gets his or her own Web server and gains full control over it (root access for Linux/administrator access for Windows); however, the user typically does not own the server. Another type of Dedicated hosting is Self-Managed or Unmanaged. This is usually the least expensive for Dedicated plans. The user has full administrative access to the box, which means the client is responsible for the security and maintenance of his own dedicated box. Dedicated Hosting is a service that web hosting companies provide to their customers whose websites generate a lot of traffic. An entire website server is used for a single customer, ensuring that all of the server’s resources are used only for that specific customer’s needs.
Reseller Web Hosting: Reseller web hosting allows clients to become web hosts themselves. Reseller accounts may vary tremendously in size: they may have their own virtual dedicated server to a colocated server. Resellers operate components of a hosting operation using services, infrastructure and equipment provided by another web hosting service. Some resellers operate businesses using the hardware, software, network and logistical support of another Web hosting firm, while they simply operate as sales agents for other web hosting companies, offering discounts and providing low-level technical support. Reseller accounts are also for people who host multiple sites or want to start a hosting company.

Well, you don't, unless you would like to have a website A website or web site is a resource of information that is suitable for the World Wide Web (www) and can be accessed through a web browser. This information is usually in HTML or XHTML format and may provide navigation links to other websites on the internet. on the internet. The internet is a worldwide series of interconnected computer networks that transmit data. It is a "network of networks" that consists of millions of smaller networks which together carry information and services such as email, online chat, video services, ftp capabilities, online gaming, banking and much more. Everyone that has a website needs web hosting. A web hosting company makes it possible for your site to be accessed by everyone else. You can make the best website anyone's ever seen sitting at your own computer but unless you upload to upload, is to send data from a local system like your computer to a remote system like the web hosting company. The difference between uploading and downloading is downloading means to receive and uploading means to send. that website to a hosting server A server is simply a computer that provides services or resources to other computers. There are millions of servers connected to the internet running continuously throughout the world directing traffic on the internet. Every action by a regular internet user requires one or more interactions with one or more web servers. it will never be accessible to everyone else.

Free Hosting:
You know the old saying "nothing is for free", holds true here as well. The main differences between free vs. paid hosting is it may be free cost wise, but you pay for it with banner ads A banner ad is an advertisements placed on the website at all times and may be in several locations (top, bottom, ect.) These may be ads for the hosting company themselves or partners but more commonly that ad space is basically sold to the highest bidder. on the top and/or bottom of your website at all times that you have no control over the content of those ads along with totally annoying pop-up ads A Popup Ad is an ad that literly pop-ups separately from the actual website and may be very deceiving as to even how to close them. The email address for the web hosting account is spammed and the email address is usually sold countless times to other spammers as well. On top of that, usually sever limitations to the amount of disc space Disk Space or storage is simply the amount of space available on a web servers hard drive to hold your files. Everything that is uploaded to your site takes up a certain amount of space such as text, images and photos. and bandwidth Bandwidth is simply how much data the web server has to provide when your website loads. All the text and pictures and such are a certain size and every time someone accesses your website, that amount of bandwidth is used. The more people that accesses your website the more bandwidth or data is used. and such with definitely no e-commerce capabilities. Oh, and for the most part old, outdated, slow crappy servers. I guess it's obvious where I stand on both services.

Paid Hosting:
Paid web hosting is just that. You usually pay anywhere from month-to-month to a 2 year year plan. The bigger plan you purchase the better deal you get as with pretty much everything. Being that you're paying for the space there are no banners, no popup ads and no email spam. Web hosting companies that offer Unlimited Domains simply means you can have as many Domain Names or websites as you'd like and pay for only 1 web hosting account. My top recommendations for paid hosting offer the 1st Domain Name or main domain for the account free for life as long as the hosting account is active. Another great bonus with paid hosting is the option for 1 Click installations for dozens and dozens of useful scripts you may be interested in such as web blogs The most common Web Blogs are Blogspot and Wordpress. Both very advanced yet very easy to use blogging tools. They both have tons of free templates and free tools all over the internet for free download., picture and photo galleries Image and Photo Galleries are designed to organize all your photos.

Web hosting is a service that allows users to post Web pages to the Internet. A Web host, or hosting service provider (HSP), is a business that provides the technologies and services needed for Web sites to be viewed on the Web.

Web hosting is a primary service that consumers can utilize after obtaining either dial-up or broadband access to the Internet. It allows users to disseminate their own information resources to any Internet user that is interested in accessing them. Web hosting utilizes the server/client model to distribute content. A Web hosting provider will offer its clients access to a Web server that will push that client's content to recipients on request. Recipients use clients, or Web browsers, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator to request content from the Web over their own Internet connection.

Web sites are hosted, or stored, on a special computer called a server. The server, or host computer, allows Internet users connected anywhere to reach your site when they put in your domain address, for example: www.yourcompany.com.

The host computers are set up so that when someone types in your domain name (your Web address), the address will follow a route from computer to computer until it reaches your host computer and your web site. Then the Internet user will be able to browse through your Web site. Hosting companies usually require that you own your own domain name in order to host with them. If you don't have a domain name, most hosting companies will help you purchase one.

To have a Web site on the Internet you first need to have a Web server. Unfortunately, owning and operating a Web server can be very costly and requires technical expertise that most businesses do not possess. This is where "Web hosts" come in. Web hosts provide the equipment and other technical resources that are required to provide a consumer with their own customized Web site. Hosting companies charge a rental fee for the service of storing your Web site and allowing Web site visitor traffic flow to through their computers to get to the information on your site.

Web hosting services are more advantageous because they are outsourced, meaning that the physical location of the Web server does not reside at the consumer's premises. Outsourcing your Web presence effectively transfers the responsibility for maintaining your Web site infrastructure from yourself to an organization that is more competent to do so.

Many individuals and small businesses take advantage of Web hosts in order to free themselves from pre-occupying their scarce human and financial resources on Web host issues. Individuals and companies who outsource their Web presence do so in order to achieve the following objectives: reduce and control operating costs; improve their own company focus; gain access to in-depth expertise; free internal resources for core competencies; and obtain access to world-class capabilities to control IT functions which are difficult to manage.

The best Web hosting services will provide relatively seamless access to IT functions that will allow you to self-publish your Web site. It is important to note that "Web hosting" strictly refers to providing the consumer with the capacity to upload content to a server for immediate transmission for those that request it. Web hosting does not include the authoring of a Web site or the development of database-driven components or code. It is incumbent upon the consumer of Web hosting services to develop this material or have it developed on his or her behalf.

Web hosting is offered to the consumer in multiple formats based upon the user's requirements. These requirements are incumbent upon cost and infrastructure provided.

Web hosting and domain name registration are usually separate services. Although your hosting company may give or sell you a domain name with your website, most hosting companies are not domain registrars, and chances are they're procuring it from a third party. (Domain registrars often give you a website, but they're usually not "full featured" websites, and another issue.)

Managing your own domain names will usually have its biggest payoff if you should decide to get more than one domain name, a common practice that can sometimes enhance your web presence. How? Let's say, your business name is "Grumpy's Hardware and Paint." Some people know you as Grumpy's Hardware, some as Grumpy's Paint, and some as just plain Grumpy. You might want to get three domain names -- grumpyshardware.com, grumpyspaint.com, and grumpy.com -- so your site can be reached no matter what a surfer enters in his browser.

The way this would work is, you'd open your hosting account using, let's say, grumpy.com. Then you'd add on, what's called, "parked" or "mirror" domain names, grumpyshardware.com and grumpyspaint.com. Parked or mirror domains are not separate websites; they simply point to an existing website, grumpy.com, in this case.

Although the concept of a domain name may seem simple enough - using a sequence of letters and words to identify a Web address - there is a great deal more going on "behind the scenes". This is because a domain name does not represent a Web site's true address; rather, it is a mask that makes a Web site's true address easier to remember.

Domain names are actually attached to a DNS (Domain Naming System) server, which is used to translate numeric addresses (known as IP, or Internet Protocol, addresses) into words. Each site you visit on the net has a numeric IP address behind its name, which represents the site's real address on the Internet.

Every domain name must be attached to a DNS server, which is the responsibility of the domain's owner (most registrars and Web hosts will handle this issue for you). There is no one central registry for DNS information; when a user enters a domain name in to their Web browser, it is up to that URL's DNS to handle the request. The DNS server then provides the browser with the correct IP, if it exists; otherwise, it returns an error message or redirects the user elsewhere.

After an IP has been determined, the user can interact with the Web server to access specific pages. While this is a specific and complex process in itself, here is a general overview as to how it works:

1. The browser now determines which protocol (the language client machines use to communicate with servers) should be used. Examples of protocols include FTP, or File Transfer Protocol, and HTTP, HyperText Transfer Protocol.

2. The server sends a GET request to the Web server to retrieve the address it has been given. For example, when a user types http://www.example.com/1.jpg, the browser sends a GET 1.jpg command to example.com and waits for a response. The server now responds to the browser's requests. It verifies that the given address exists, finds the necessary files, runs the appropriate scripts, exchanges cookies if necessary, and returns the results back to the browser. If it cannot locate the file, the server sends an error message to the client.

3. The browser translates the data it has been given in to HTML and displays the results to the user.

A Website is essentially a location on the World Wide Web. Technically it is related HTML documents, files, scripts, and databases served by a Web server (HTTP server). Typically a Website covers one or more related topics where Hyperlink text takes you to additional information. Most sites have a home page that you can use as a table of contents. The address of the Website is known as the Web address or the URL.