| Everybody knows how to use web browser and | | | | From the user perspective web hosting is a virtual |
| how to find information on the web. There are | | | | place where you can upload content management |
| millions of websites offering anything you can imagine. | | | | system or individual web pages and then the website |
| But those websites need to be stored somewhere. | | | | appears at specified domain. In practice for this to |
| And there must be some mechanism to get web | | | | work a lot of computers and software applications |
| pages when we enter address or click a link. | | | | need to work flawlessly in order to serve pages to |
| Whenever you type some domain name into address | | | | web visitors. This system must work around the |
| bar of the browser it must convert this name into IP | | | | clock because if only one link in the chain fails the |
| address. This IP address is then contacted to return | | | | users will not be able to get wanted pages. |
| requested page. This happens very quickly so in most | | | | Therefore, hosting companies must put a lot of |
| cases you never know where the pages are stored | | | | effort and resources to ensure reliable operation and |
| and how the browser got them. | | | | customer support. |
| Web hosting is a service that makes websites | | | | The main difference between offers is not the price |
| available to the world. Hosting companies operate | | | | they ask--it is the quality of service they offer and |
| with many web servers which store and serve | | | | the responsiveness of the support they have. In |
| websites to the world. Web server is a special, highly | | | | most cases it is better to pay one dollar more and |
| reliable computer configured to run web serving | | | | choose proven and well known company just to be |
| applications. Each server can be configured to host | | | | sure that the website will not be offline for more |
| many different websites or to be totally available | | | | than the time needed for regular maintenance. A |
| only for a particular customer. Hosting companies | | | | good hosting offer usually includes control application |
| offer various plans for hosting websites. Each plan | | | | like cPanel where you can manage your account, add |
| usually defines how many domains you are able to | | | | domains, control FTP accounts, manage databases, |
| host, what disk space is available for your files, how | | | | set up e-mail accounts, etc. Before you decide for |
| much bandwidth you can consume, how many | | | | particular hosting you should read some reviews and |
| databases you can use, how many IP addresses you | | | | compare features, prices and especially user |
| will be able to use, etc. | | | | experiences. |