Professional Hosting

The service that enables users to post Web pagesresources elsewhere. Web hosts are, however, not
on the Internet is known as Web hosting. The host,responsible for the contents of a Web site or the
called the hosting service provider (HSP), providesdevelopment of database-driven components or
the technologies and services that are required forcode.
Web sites to be viewed on the Web. A Web hostFree Web hosting from sites like Yahoo! and
provides its client's access to a Web server thatGeoCities offer limited service depth and quality of
stores the pages and downloads them to recipients'service just because they are free. Paid services
computers on request. When a recipient accesses aoffered by Internet service providers (ISPs) or HSPs,
Web page, his/her browser, be it Microsoft Internethowever, offer a reliable set of services.
Explorer or Netscape Navigator, connects to thePaid Web hosting includes three types of services:
server.shared, dedicated and managed. In the case of
Most businesses find it difficult to own and operate ashared hosting, several Web sites are shared on one
Web server as it is very expensive and requires solidserver. Although less expensive, they are incapable
technical know-how. Making use of this opportunity,of handling large amounts of storage or traffic.
Web hosts come into play. They accept theIn dedicated hosting, a Web site is allotted its own
responsibility of storing a client's Web site andserver. As a result, webmasters exercise full control
enabling Web site visitor traffic flow through theirover the back end of the server, including choice of
computers to get to the client's site. In return, theyoperating systems.
charge a rental fee from the client. Quite expectedly,Apart from a dedicated server, managed hosting also
many individuals and small businesses leave it to Webprovides extensive technical support, maintenance
hosts to be free of these "hassles" and use theirand monitoring services.