What is Web Hosting?
Web hosting (also known as Web site hosting, website and Webhosting ), is the business of housing, serving, and maintaining files for one or more Web sites. More significant than the computer space that is provided for Internet site files is the fast connection to the Internet. Most hosting services offer connections on T-carrier system lines. Often an individual business hosting its own site will require a similar connection and it might be dear. Employing a web hosting service lets many companies share the cost of a fast Net connection for serving files.
A number of Net access suppliers, for example America Online, offer customers free space for a small Web site site that is hosted by one of their computers. Geocities is a Web site that offers registered visitors similar free space for a site. Whilst site. While these services are free, they are extremely basic.
A number of net hosting corporations describe their services as virtual hosting. Virtual hosting usually implies that their services will be transparent and that each internet site will have its own domain name and set of email addresses. In most uses, hosting and virtual hosting are synonyms. Some hosting corporations let you have your own virtual server, the appearance that you are controlling a server that is dedicated completely to your site.
Dedicated hosting is the supply of a dedicated server machine that is devoted to the traffic to your site. Only very busy sites require dedicated hosting. Many firms purchase their own servers and place them on a site that provides fast access to the Net. This practice is called colocation.
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