Web Hosting – What is it?

What You Absolutely Have to Get Started

As gas prices become a bigger factor in people’s driving habits, you may want to get your online store up, sooner rather than later. But if you have never set up a website for your small business before, then the whole web hosting problem at first can seem very daunting. This article will explore all the requirements you will need for a small business web hosting account.

The following tips will guide your through the process of finding a web hosting service that fits your small business needs.

Introduction

Very basically, web hosting is renting space, and certain services in a very powerful team called “web server” a ‘server’, or, which is connected to the Internet. You can not have a website online without using some kind of web hosting.

The fact that your PC or laptop is connected to the Internet, does not mean you can run your website on them. It takes a certain type of hardware and software for other “host” a website on the internet. Business

offered by these servers connected to the Internet that provide space and services, call the Web host, or hosting companies. Web hosting can have its own website up, running and connected to the Internet 24 / 7. No matter what your site is, or what it contains, the host will remain available to anyone on the Internet.

 

Server

Think of a web server as a supercharged desktop PC. One who is capable of handling multiple users and multiple tasks simultaneously. This server has the hardware and software that is designed from scratch to serve the Internet. A web hosting company may have hundreds if not thousands of these servers. All available for rental and is connected to the Internet.

Each of these servers has a name, these names are called name servers. ” When you register for a web hosting account, the hosting company will tell you which of your web servers is its space, ie, they will tell you the name servers. This is important because you need to know this bit of information later on the road. How to use the reception

For a website to make available on the Internet, it must be hosted on a web server. But do not build or create your website on the server. This is done on your own PC or laptop.

There are several tools available for creating and building web sites, there are free tools available even good, but we will not go into that here. The thing to remember is that building the site on your own computer, then go to the web server to host, so that available on the Internet. The movement of your web site file (s) on your computer to the web server is called ‘up’. You ‘upload’ files on the Internet, ie your server. No editing files on the web server. If you want to make changes to its Internet web site, you must make changes to files on your computer and then upload the changed files to your webserver. This creates a new version. So now you wonder, how can you connect to the web server and upload the files to it? Good question, the software uses a type of software called ‘ftp’. This FTP software is a connection between the computer and the web server hosting company. This software displays the files and folders on the server, and also shows you the files and folders on your computer. So it’s a simple matter of dragging and dropping files from your computer to the web server. Domain Name

Now when it comes to web hosting should also be mentioned domains.

A domain is a name you buy a “Domain Names”. In other words, a company that sells domain names, and ensures that they are all unique. It would be a good idea several websites with the same name. We’re not talking about getting a domain name here, for our purposes, now suppose you already have a domain name. Putting the two together

So you have a domain name. Now you’re wondering what to do with it, and how it relates to web hosting? Another good question.

You have to associate the domain name you rent space on the hosting company. Think about when you move to a new residence. The new house has an address, has his name, but you have to tell the mailman that his name is associated with that address. One without the other is useless. web hosting is the same. You have your domain name associated with the space you are renting on the web server. This space becomes the “domain”. His dominion is the part after the ‘target = “_new” http:// . ” on its website. For this partnership is to tell the company that received the domain name from which to host that domain. That is, you need to tell the name servers hosting your company you given. In this way every time someone writes your domain name, which will be taken to your domain, hosted on their web servers. This is the way your domain name is tied to their web servers hosting account. This becomes your domain. It’s their little piece of Internet real estate. So that’s what it comes to web hosting. Your rent space on a web server, then labeled with your domain name and then upload your web site files on it so you can have your website.