Explaination of Web Hosting Features
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008Here are some of the functions that are interpreted so that you can know how exactly they are able to help in hosting your web site.
1. Disk Space or Web Space: This space is in context with the volume of disk storage provided by the best web hosting service to store a website on the web hosting company’s server. It can range anywhere from one GB to 10GB; this means that if each web page is about thirty KB and it is possible to store approximately three thousand static web pages on 1GB disk space.
2.Bandwidth or Data download: This is the whole size of data permited to be download from a website each month, or is better described by using the word ‘monthly traffic.’ This means that the more people visiting a web site, the more the bandwidth needed.
3. Protected directories: This is an important feature for websites, using a password webmasters can prevent access to directories or pages of a website. Only users that have a login ID can access these restricted areas. In order to enable the password protection webmasters are needed to create and modify the “.htaccess” and “.htpasswd” files, though majority of the web hosting services such as Hostgator have a Control Panel to do this.
4. Email Features: When signing up for a web hosting account, the providers also give email accounts. These can be varied from 20 to ‘n’ in number. The privilege of such accounts is that they have it in sync with the website address as the forward address,
5. FTP: File Transfer Protocol, these accounts are used to upload the websites that have been created on the computer. Web host providers support multiple FTP accounts, incase multiple users are needed to upload web pages on the server. Most of the times, one FTP account is not enough, this is the cuase that you are supplied with many accounts. Of course FTP is not the only way of uploading files to the web server, programs like FrontPage Extension help in uploading directly.
