Web Site Hosting Features Explain

Here are some of the features that are explained so that you can understand how exactly they are capable of helping in hosting your website.

1. Disk Space or Web Space: This space is in context with the volume of disk storage provided by the best web hosting service to store a website on the web hosting company’s server. It can varies something from 1GB to 10GB; it means that if every webpage is about 30KB and it is likely to store about 30,000 static webpages on 1GB harddisk space.

2.Bandwidth or Data download: This is the whole size of data permited to be download from a website each month, or is better described by using the word ‘monthly traffic.’ This means that the more users visiting a website, the more the bandwidth required.

3. Protected directories: This is an important feature for websites, using a password webmasters can prevent access to directories or pages of a website. Only user who have a user ID can access these restricted space. In order to enable the password protection webmasters are needed to create and modify the ".htaccess" and ".htpasswd" files, though majority of the web hosting services such as Hostgator have a Control Panel to do this.

4.Email Features: When purchase a webhosting account, the hosting services providers also give email accounts. These can be anywhere from 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 transfer the web page that have been design on the desktop 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.