Web Hodting

Web hosting , in the simplest of terms , allows you to have your own space on the World Wide Web through a server owned by a Web Host . The server , no matter how complex it sounds, is nothing but a computer having a very fast-paced internet connection .You can have your own Website with a domain name, like www.your name .com with the content of your choice placed on the Internet where the whole world can access it ! !
You can have a Website for free as long as…

◦ You don’t get irritated by having advertisement-banners pasted all over the Web page

◦ Customer support is not that big an issue for you and , most importantly ,

◦ You don’t really believe that your site will grow big enough to have money spent on it!

This type of hosting is ideal for small sites as even getting an exclusive Domain name is not guaranteed. You might end up getting something like “Your name.TheWebHostCompany.com”!!

• If free Web hosting sounds not -so -exciting to you , then you’d be quite eager to know as to how much a full fledged paid Website costs !?! Well , you can get rid of all the irritating banner ads, have a highly dedicated 24 x 7 Customer support and a Domain- name of your choice starting at a price as low as $1 per month !

Paid web hosting is of two basic types that are ;

◦ Shared Web Hosting – The Website is placed on a server shared by many sites , ranging from a few to a few thousands .
◦ Dedicated Web Hosting – A server is wholly dedicated to a particular site . This service comes at a much higher price at approx. $100 a month ,depending on as to who owns the server .

As for the performance, you need to take into account the `Uptime `. Hosting uptime is the %age of time for which a host is connected to the Net. Most of the hosts claim a 99.9% uptime, but here’s the catch! The uptime they refer to is the % age of time for which the server is switched on and it doesn`t take into account the Internet Connectivity!

But these misguiding ads and the ` catches ` is all a result of the market environment
as there are thousands and thousands of Web Hosting Providers all over the globe and the competition is so fierce that even the biggest of Web Hosts {like “Mydomain.com”} owns only around 0.3 to 0.35 % of the total market share . Banner ads of Web hosting providers are among the most frequent irritants on a Web page and there are numerous E-mails { mostly in the bulk folder ! } addressed to you by these companies .

But most Consumers , be it individuals or companies , have the yardsticks of low pricing and good customer support for measuring the reliability of a company . So most companies resort to extremely low pricing and an aggressive marketing strategy .

This results in a wide choice of options to the customer , which is a sign of progress for the World Wide Web , assumed as a plaything of the elite not so long ago. Now having a Website is as easy as accessing one ! So what`s stopping you ? Go ahead and choose a Web Host and get onto the WWW-bandwagon!!