About Web Hosting?

What About Web Hosting?

Okay, so whether you decide to reserve your domain name first through a company like www.godaddy.com, www.yahoo.com/domains, or www.register.com, you will ultimately need a web hosting company to store the physical pages and data of web your web site.. (pictures movies, flash files, even just basic text pages, anything that makes up a web site). A lot of domain registrars like the ones above, have their own hosting services and "simplified web site creators" which may be ideal for very basic personal pages, however most people like to have more control of their web space - especially small businesses that will want a web site with a professional design and appearance. These companies range in price based on the needs of what you are searching for, whether that be selling products online, blogging, or just having a few pictures or basic text about yourself or business.

Price will generally range from $2 to $20 a month in the beginner range, but could go up onwards dependent on just how complex your web site and storage requirements are. Sample hosting companies that are popular in this range are www.ipower.com, www.1and1.com, smallbusinses.yahoo.com www.powweb.com, www.hostgator.com. We actually like Yahoo, for its simple interface and easy domain registration / hosting combination, so that is one company to take a special look into. The list goes on, generally most of these providers are roughly the same. For those looking for a ridiculously inexpensive hosting service we found a company called DayanaHost (www.dayanahost.com) with a super basic hosting plan for just $14.95 a year but only 10MG of storage. An option like this is only practical for the most basic of brochure web sites. You would be able to have a significant amount of text, but would have to be careful on overloading the site with images in that scenario.

Otherwise most standard web hosts offer quite enough storage, bandwidth, and email addresses for around $70-$100 a year... Often they will say "unlimited" which logically cannot be possible, but is for the average user. It means they don't impose stringent limits on what you can upload and store to your web site - Usually this is around 150GB of storing files (pictures, images, pages, web applications). In terms of bandwidth. First off what is bandwidth? That simply is a restriction on how much web traffic you are allowed... Generally it costs a hosting provider money to transfer the data from your web site to your visitors. Literally just going to a web site costs a hosting provider money due to the transferring of that data. However unless your site is gaining phenomonal amounts of traffic most hosting providers do not impose limits on this either. If your web site is so popular that enormous amounts of data are being transferred, that would be a good thing meaning you are probably gaining web traffic, profit and thus can look into upgrading your hosting package to a more advanced plan.

Storage is the disk space for your files, images, pages, web applications, videos, etc.