Web Hosting Introduction

These are the functions that are described so you will be sure what they are excellent at supporting in hosting your web site.

1. Disk Space or Web Space: This space is in context with the volume of disk storage provided by the web site hosting service to store a website on the web hosting company’s server. It can range anywhere from one GB to 10GB; this means that if each web page is about thirty KB and it is possible to store approximately three thousand static web pages on 1GB disk space.

2.Data Transfer or Bandwidth: This is the total figures of data permited to be transferred from a web site each month, or is better said by using the word ‘monthly web traffic.’ This means that the more users visiting a website, the more the bandwidth required.

3.Secured directories: This is an critical feature for web sites, using a PIN webmasters can avoid access to directories or web pages of a web site. Only users that have a login ID can access these restricted areas. For the purpose to enable the PIN protection web masters should create and modify the ".htaccess" and ".htpasswd" files, though majority of the web hosting services such as Yahoo Hosting have a Control Panel to do this.

4.Email characteristic: When buy a hosting account, the services company also give email services. It can be anything betwen twenty to ‘n’ in number. The privilege of such accounts is that they have it in sync with the website address as the forward address,

5. FTP: File Transfer Protocol, these accounts are used to upload the websites that have been created on the computer. Web host providers support multiple FTP accounts, incase multiple users are needed to upload web pages on the server. Majority of the times, one FTP account is not sufficient, this is the reason that you are provided with multiple accounts. Of course FTP is not the only way of uploading files to the web server, programs like FrontPage Extension help in uploading directly.