Hosting, opposite to the common belief, is actually very easy to comprehend. One might initially think that understanding or acquiring web hosting requires an extensive research and much hard work. However, this attitude is totally wrong. The basic web hosting information will be shared with the readers in this article.

Simply put, web hosting is getting one’s website on the internet. Every website, old or new, is actually stored on a computer and this website is fetched from that computer to the user’s computer when he types the address of that website in the URL bar of a web browser. One’s website will be placed on a computer in the same manner. This is known as web hosting.

The person or company who owns the computer where one wants his website to be stored (hosted) is called the web host. The web host offers various packages and supplies clients with technical support in exchange of hosting fee.

Web hosting is of two major types. The first one, shared hosting is the type where a client’s website is stored on computer where there are also others’ websites. In a nutshell, different clients’ websites exist in the same computer in this case. The second one, dedicated web hosting features a full web server acquired by the client for his hosting needs. It means that only one client has the authority to have his website hosted in a particular computer.

Web hosting basics also include the introduction to a few technical terms. For instance, ‘Technical Support’ is the term that refers to the help and support department of the web hosting company which is a very important aspect of web hosting. ‘Bandwidth’ refers to the amount of data transfer allowed to one’s website every month, which is around 10 GB for new websites. ‘Web space’ is the amount of space which is provided to a client for his web site. ‘Domain name’ is the words which other users will enter in the browser’s URL bar in order to access a client’s website. Domain names are registered separately from the web hosting and vary in fees. ‘Flash’ is a widely used media type developed by Macromedia. Owing to its convenient downloading time and space, Flash has become very popular in the field of animation and graphics. ‘Shopping Cart’ is basically a soft-ware that is designed to take orders from customers on one’s website before storing them and charging for the total amount. ‘FTP’ or FILE TRANSFER PROTOCL means the uploading of one’s website’s files on the web host’s server. ‘HTML’ or HYPER TEXT MARKUP LANGUAGE is the language in which the client and the server-browsers communicate. It is also the basic language in which one will write his website and the language. ‘CGI’ or COMMON GATEWAY INTERFACE is a processing interface whose scripts take information from the user and can process it in various ways. Web hosting basics have been fully explained above and it is hoped that the reader will find it helpful.

-Abdul Vasi is a Marketing Expert specialized in Internet Marketing, His Web hosting India Company Hostcats provides you with reliable but affordable web hosting solution for your online business.