Facts Surrounding the World of Web Hosting

By Helen Cox

In the society that we live in today we are very media driven and the biggest form of media that many of us use is the Internet. The Internet has become one of the most powerful forms of media in modern society so it's no wonder that most businesses can be found on the World Wide Web.

If you did a survey today with the purpose of finding out where most of us do our shopping I can guarantee that the answer most seen would be the Internet so if you are a business trying to get your products, service or information as well as entertainment out there then you need a website to do this but to get your website seen you need a web hosting company.

Web hosting is what enables people to see your site on the Internet; it is where all of the files and the make-up of your website is sorted. Without web hosting your website would fail to exist. In order to get the best web hosting service you will be paying a small fee to a hosting company who will use their servers to store your website; this is your best option when it comes to starting up your business online due to the fact that if you have any problems with your hosting you will be able to get the problems resolved straight away so that your website isn't 'down' for too long, meaning you won't be losing business.

So what are some of the services that a web hosting company can offer you? A web hosting company will be able to offer you the following plus much, much more:

• Free setup

• 30 Meg Storage

• Web based mail

• Unlimited auto responders

• Spam assassin

• Unlimited mail forwarders

• Mail filtering

• Free telephone support

• Web based control panel

• FTP access (24 hours)

• PHP

• Daily Backups

• Redirects

• Email support

• Firewall protection

These are just a few examples of what is on offer to you from a web hosting company but as well as the above a web hosting company will also control the bandwidth of your website. Bandwidth is the term that describes the amount of data transferred to and from the website or server and will include sent & received email traffic, in fact any movement on your server. Basically the more traffic that goes to your website the more bandwidth you will need with your web hosting.

There are many web hosting companies available so it is up to you to find the one that can offer you the best for your website so before diving straight into the first company that you find make sure that you shop around for a bit first to make sure you are getting everything that you need to get your website off the ground.

What are you waiting for? Start looking into your web hosting and get your business to a global market today!

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