What is Web Hosting ?

Posted by Bobochan on Wednesday, August 20, 2014

A web hosting is a type of Internet service that gives individuals and organizations to allow their website to access via the World Wide Web. 

What is Web Host ?

Web hosts are companies or organization that provide access to there server to owned or leased  by clients, as well as providing them Internet connectivity.

The scope of web hosting services varies from company to company. The  basic iweb page and file hosting, are those files that can be uploaded via File Transfer Protocol (FTP) or a Web interface.

 The files are usually delivered to the Web with minimal processing. Individuals and organizations can obtain Web page hosting from alternative service providers. 

Personal web site hosting is  free,  Business web site hosting often has a higher expenses depending upon the size and type of the site.

Single page hosting issufficient for personal web pages. A complex siteneeds  more comprehensive

package that provides database and application development platforms (e.g. PHP, Java, Ruby on Rails, ColdFusion, or ASP.NET).

These facilities  customers to write or install scripts for applications like forums and content management.For  e-commerce site Secure Sockets Layer(SSL) is a must.

Web host typically provide an interface or control panel for managing the Web server for installing scripts, modules and service applications like e-mail.

 Some hosts specialize in certain software or services (e.g. e-commerce), which are commonly used by larger companies to promote there products.