What is Web Hosting?
When you create a document on your computer you have to store it on your hard drive, in order to create websites that are visible to everyone we have to store them on servers specifically designed for the task. These servers are connected to the internet at extremely fast speeds, and allow thousands of people to view your website from around the globe. The space you rent on these servers is generally called Web Hosting.
Web Hosting comes in lot's of different forms - but all web hosting accounts have a set amount of web space and monthly bandwidth allocated. Web Space is basically the size of your hard drive for your web hosting account (IE how may files you can fit within it) and monthly bandwidth is the amount of data that can be transferred to and from your account each month (This includes people visiting your site, your email usage and your FTP usage).
At WebFloat we provide Linux web hosting. Linux is the standard platform for most web servers because it is fast, lightweight and secure. Other web hosts may offer Windows web hosting, and even in some cases Mac OSX web hosting.
Aside from web space and bandwidth, each of our web hosting accounts come with a set amount of email accounts, databases and web/email domains. Email accounts allow you to send and receive email using IMAP, POP3 or WebMail. Databases allow you to store information which dynamic scripts can then access to display on your website, they often required for content management systems, forums, blogs, photo galleries etc. Web and email domains allow you to create email accounts and websites for multiple domain names using the same web hosting account. Each of our web hosting accounts also come with an easy to use control panel which allows you to manage every aspect of your hosting account, along with an array of inclusive features.
If you'd like to learn more about web hosting, creating websites or blogs we recommend having a look at these third party sites:
- w3c Introduction to Web Hosting
- w3c Introduction to HTML
- w3c Introduction to CSS
- w3c Introduction to JavaScript
- w3c Introduction to PHP