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| traffic, bandwidth and other technical terms related | | | | Hosting providers can not afford to be off-line for |
| to hosting. The truth is that reliable and fast web | | | | more than what is acceptable. Usually 99.9% up-time |
| hosting is a key element for good user experience | | | | is enough for typical hosting. Up-time and support is |
| while browsing. | | | | probably the most important factor when choosing |
| What is web hosting? It is a service which offers | | | | hosting. If the website is offline it is not the problem |
| some resources on a web server: disk space, | | | | only for the website owner. It is a problem for any |
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| bandwidth, web server application with popular | | | | Typical user simply browses to the next website and |
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| some server in a data center, install hosting software | | | | very likely that he will never visit that page again and |
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| start accepting money. You need to provide some | | | | The fact is that if websites are frequently found |
| quality of service. | | | | off-line, users will not visit them and search engines |
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| providers offer all of this and more. It is not | | | | customers. |