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What web hosting mean?
Starting with a great idea...
Hosting a website is a process of making your files available to the internet users. Internet provides many opportunities to everyone who want to start a business of their own or for those who try something different and there are endless opportunities for them. Web hosting is the business of housing, serving, and maintaining files for a website. It removes the need of having to provide and maintain expensive and complicated Servers. Web Hosting Services allow companies and individuals to maintain their own server on internet without much expense or effort. To do a business online you need a website. The reasons why? We need a internet presence are 

• A well designed website shows good impact on your customer’s confidence. It shows you are up-to-date and shows your offering to your customer and to learn about products & Services which Increases credibility. Searching products and services online is much easier than Going through yellow pages.
• Your website is available to your customer  24hours a day and 7days week
• The customer will be able to reach your products and services at any time, and it cut costs on printing brochures, newsletter etc.

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Types of Web Hosting
Hosting implies a computer on which your files are stored in order to be accessed by users of internet
Web host is a service provider with a computer connected to the Internet, where you can place your web site. Webhosting makes your website available on the internet by renting you some space and connection. Web hosts are responsible for keeping the server (and your website) online, and also maintaining and upgrading it.

Shared Hosting
Shared hosting an also be called as Virtual Hosting where many websites resides on a single web server. This type of hosting is cheapest when compared to other and good enough for people who are looking for web host. By using this hosting companies can maximize their use to each server. Although many websites resides on the single server, its customer can’t access others sites. The customer can get only access to his web-based control panel to maintain and update their sites
      Shared hosting includes features like file manager, email accounts, webmail, email forwarding, FTP Access, Database, Server side includes and site statistics.
The limitations for this kind of hosting are

• It restricts on hosting large files        
• Band width usage limit
• Restrict certain type of scripts

Managed Web Hosting
Managed hosting is the smooth going process as it won’t require expert when working with a site. The hosting companies are responsible for everything from software to equipment.

Collocated hosting
This could be little similar to dedicated hosting under dedicated hosting you actually own the server, software upgrades .beside, you can buy hardware upgrades too (more memory, larger hard drives, etc.). Server stays in protected environment, with optimal connections to the Internet, rather than staying in an office or at home. This is suitable for persons who are in need of server hardware and require complete control over server configuration.

Reseller Hosting
Reseller hosting designed for those want to become web hosts themselves. can get a huge amount of space and bandwidth that will be distributed among different sites they are places on the same server with other reseller account. It doesn’t require extensive technical aspects for web hosting the data center operator is responsible for managing network infrastructure and the dedicated server owner configure and updates the server.

Free Web Hosting
It’s a type of web hosting where you can get free space on web to create and host your website, it has many advantages and it also have disadvantages like limited web hosting features and forced ads free web hosting companies places some ads like banner, text links etc to make a profit and cover their cost. Some free webhosting companies provide very limited services like low bandwidth limit.

Grid Server Hosting/Cloud Hosting
Grid server hosting is also known as the could hosting. These grid server works for those who needs high performance and quality. It empowers the client for large bursts of traffic with no failures. The grid web hosting environment includes.

• Client software installation and updates.
• Backups through a private network.
• Proactive support communication.
• Port monitoring services and notifications.
• Multiple security and support services.
• Multiple network and server services.

Java Hosting
Java Servlets hosting and Jsp is offered by only few companies, hosting Java web application is a complicated task it requires java expertise. Java hosting consists of services like fast and stable servers, 24/7 support. Java hosting offers packages like Private tomcat hosting, Shared tomcat hosting, Private Jboss hosting and it is included with support for html hosting. Tomcat hosting results in continuous upgrade path that let small businesses to launch their websites on a build technology. The beauty of java web hosting is that as your website grows without the need to rebuild and redeploy your core application the beauty if the java web hosting, a java accounts is the best option and can be easily adapted to a website need when more traffic and more client based web server.
How it works: JSP consists of a static data, JSP actions, scripting elements and custom tags. The JSP compiler compiles the JSPs into Java Servlets.Java servlets are recognized by the web server and integrates it with the web server.

PHP Hosting
PHP shared hosting make you able to get your hands on it at a low price.

CVS/Subversion Hosting
CVS (Concurrent Versions System organizes a set of files and allows multiple people to work on the same file. These CVS is used mainly for software development, website management and collaborative writing. This CVS hosting plan provides you to place multiple projects on your repository, providers control panel to manage users, unlimited email support, 1GB disks pace and optional read only users.
How it works?

• Import your files to CVS
• Edit your file
• Making changes into repository
• Then the user can run

It includes:

• 1GB disk space
• multiple projects (modules) inside your repository
• Using CVS software you can browse your files
• control panel for managing users
• optional anonymous access
• Restricting users
• downloadable tarballs generated nightly
• unlimited email support

Linux Hosting
UNIX or Linux web hosting is the alternative operating system to windows web hosting. For Perl Programming, PHP programming and MYSQL database these kind of Linux hosting are suitable. Linux hosting is powerful and reliable hosting and it is a open source software with very much low cost

Windows Hosting
Windows hosting gives business people to design website using the popular windows operating system and it provides windows based server plans that give you the ability to exploit the power of Active Server Pages for dynamic content. This kind of Windows web hosting services suit everyone looking for a powerful web hosting solution.

Budget Hosting
It is the cheap web hosting service where many websites are present on the internet on one web server. Each site has its own section/place on the server to manage their files and keep separate from other sites and generally this kind of hosting service is suitable for beginners.

Business Web Hosting
A set of internet based tools that give you everything you need to do business online. You can easily create professional websites and market it to customers and helps you to manage your identity 

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Server Plans
Virtual Dedicated Server
Virtual Dedicated server hosting or virtual private server hosting provides you the access to the server from the root. It is cheaper than the dedicated hosting. Under virtual dedicated server you can only own only a part of the server resources. A web server is divided into multiple isolated environments. Each environment has its own server software providing independence for that website. Any compromise to a site does not affect other site on the server.

Dedicated Server
A dedicated server Refers to rental and exclusive use of a computer that includes a Web Server, related software, and connection to the Internet, housed in the Web hosting company's premises. A dedicated server is usually needed for a Website that may develop a considerable amount of traffic - for example, a site that must handle up to 35 million Hits a day. The server can usually be configured and operated remotely from the client company. Web hosting companies claim that the use of a dedicated server on their premises saves router, Internet connection, security system, and network administration costs.

Swing Server
Swing server offers you flexibility to move mailbox upgrading. I don’t require purchasing new hardware for existing. You can purchase servers when you upgrade the whole exchange organization to exchange server 2003.you can also upgrade the existing hardware to make it more effective.

• User Disturbances may not occur
• Upgrade Users mail boxes
• Upgrade of operating system is not required 

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E-Commerce Hosting
In order to widen up the horizons into the markets businesses are learning news ways with the help of internet creating new opportunities and challenges. Internet is providing a number of opportunities for online business to be successful. Setting up a website is not as simple as it seems. It is important that sites are functional, easy to use and deliver quality information. E-commerce hosting enables merchants to create enhance and maintain online storefront; everthing can be made form their browser.
Internet is the powerful tool it allows small business to access markets and develops a presence that allows them to compete with the industry. Having a business online and buying an e-commerce plan will a way to get more visibility.
Small business may not be capable of hosting their own sites. The cost of running development department and data center is expensive. The small companies look for the specialized companies in web hosting. There are many companies providing e-commerce service who offer their clients quality services to do online business without much cost and for providing quality service. These hosting providers allow many customers to take advantage of operation of large data centers, cost savings, software licenses, bandwidth and backup systems.

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Choosing a Domain Name
A domain locates an organization on the Internet. Visitors will find website by domain name, it’s a great asset to find a domain name which is meaningful and easy to remember. When people think if your website they think of it by its name. for example if you are selling cars, you might have some brands in your mind and you’re more likely to try Toyota.com ,alto.com for that reason you need to have domain names matching to your brand name and that’s the first thing people try in the browser which is easily remunerable
A few things should be kept in mind while choosing a Domain name

1. You should be aware of the domain name format. It can generally be up to 67 characters (including the extension), and contain two or more of the characters a-z, 0-9 and '-' (hyphen). Domain names should start with minimum of 3 characters (not including the extension). Domain names cannot start or end with '-' (hyphen). Domain names are not case sensitive, therefore DomainName.com and domainname.com and DoMaInNaMe.com are all equivalent.
2. Try a domain name which is related to your business which includes your company name and products & Services names. When it comes to SEO (Search Engine Optimization) it a good process. Having a meaningful and popular keyword in your website will help you to get higher ranking in search results for that keyword.
3. Keep  it as short as possible, should be memorable and preferably not contain hyphens
4. If u can’t get the domain name you can consider alternate forms like for www.cars.com for example consider www.mycars.com,www.bestcars.com.
5. If you find that .com domain name you were looking for, consider buying multiple domain names for the same website. The reason is to protect yourself against the competition. So, if you have a site about Sourcing called www.bestsourcing or you might be interested in getting www.best-sroucing.com, www.bestsourcing.us, www.bestsourcing.net and perhaps other similar URLs containing the desired keywords. Like way you can prevent other sites from using near your name.

Don’t choose domain names with words that join to form unintentional words such as "Jeans Wearing" which can read "Jean Swearing". Avoid them altogether or use capitalization in marketing material (JeansWearing.com) or hyphens in the domain name (jeans-wearing.com) to separate the words if really necessary.

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Domain name and web hosting
Domain name and web host both have a close relationship. Domain name is the label which redirects the visitors to the IP address of the computer where the site is hosted. We use this domain name because it’s much easier to remember a name rather than IP Address..

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Determining Hosting Needs
Creating a Internet presence require a web site and web hosting, it is key to figure out the types of resources you will need.

Type of web site?
A website can be developed using different web technologies and different programming languages. The sire can be for e-commerce business or it can be a hobby site or the site can be used for blog or online forums. If you are running an e-commerce site you need to find the online payment system you need to have your web host support the secure socket layer (SSL).if you’re on developing a e-commerce software you need to be make sure that you know about the web hosting to ensure that your software will work on their systems.

Storage space you needed?
Running a small, static website doesn’t require large amount of space but an e-commerce site with many pages or images or a forums would require a more amount of data storage. In most of the cases the databases are given with their own separate storage limit and could cause problems since 100 megabytes of data capacity May not always equal 100 mega bytes capacity.

Bandwidth you need?
Bandwidth is the most important feature after the storage space for you websit.if your webpage is of 5kb and you receive 100 hits per day, you can easily see that you are using (5x100)500kb of bandwidth a day. Before signing up to any webhosting service you should keep in mind that you put some thought into how big your website will be, what type of service you are going to provide. For example any social network it will use more bandwidth because more users will be online for a long time, new visitors will be coming back etc,therefore your bandwidth needs to be considered prior signing up for a hosting plan.

Hosting features you need?
A plain html based website requires different resources compared to php/asp based site that uses a database, images and programming. If you are designing a website other than html involves programming work or scripting language, you should make sure that webhost support this kind of standards features.web hosting companies offer everything. Other than programming language you need o have special access to website like through FTP.Just about every paid web host allow FTP access to your website.

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What features look for?
Apart from all the technical and the all advertisement of webhost you need also to look over some key points which aren’t technical related. Determine if there are any companies whom you can trust and the company that values the customer. Another important thing is Customer Support. Is that company helping their customer? Look for toll-free numbers, 24/7 customer support, support forums and taking feedback from the customers.

• The Amount of disk space you can use.
• Bandwidth
• Customer Support
• You should get a free domain name when signing up to the web host contract
• Shopping cart
• SSI(Server side Include) Support
• FTP Access
• Add-on domains and sub-domains
• Content Management

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SSL Certification
The SSL Certificate is issued by a trusted authority, Certificate Authority (CA). To enable applications to transmit information back and forth securely Secure Sockets Layers has been designed. It refers to a digital certificate used with most popular security protocol on the internet. When a purchase is made on the web, a closed lock icon will be appearing at the top or bottom of browser or HTTP://prefix in the URL that means it has established a secure SSL connection.

How it works...

• A secure page (https ://) is requested by the web browser.
• A public key is sent through the web server with its certificate.
• The browser check whether the certificate is issued by trusted party and it is still valid and whether the site is related to site contacted or not etc.
• Then it uses the public key to encrypt a random symmetric encryption key and sends to the browser with encrypted URL.
• The web server decrypts the encryption key using private key and uses the symmetric key to decrypt the URL, http data.
• The web server send back the requested html document and http data encrypted with symmetric key and at last the browser decrypt the http data and html document using key and display the information

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Buying a hosting package online
Buying a hosting package is same as buying something on the internet.Inorder to purchase a hosting package online you need to create one account for providing some personal details, to select some options and for payment. All the companies don’t have the same selecting options it differs from one hosting service provider to others.

Domain Name: While purchasing a hosting package you are asked for the domain name. If you are signed up for a minimum period of time usually you can get one for free from the host. With some webhost service providers they will provide you free domain name as long as you stay with them and if you decide to change the service provider they might charge you extra.

The hosting contract will be for 12 or 24 months.

Additional Features: When choosing a webhost, some features are not standars.the most common choice that you need to make include dedicated IP and choosing or not “non-standard” technologies like ASP, JSP.

Additional Software: Hosting software packages are offered for free but some of them are offered with only 24 months package. So, choose a right billing to get good features.

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FTP
Once a website is signed up with the webhosting service provider you need to upload your website to the hosting server. Once it has been done anyone can be able to visit your website around the world. You can update your website using FTP (File Transfer Protocol) this is the most commonly used method for updating websites.FTP is the standard protocol used for transferring files form one computer to another. In order to access FTP you should have a FTP client.FTP client is software which enables you to transfer your files from one computer to another through the network.

Downloading software or uploading pictures or WebPages is done through using FTP. These are the two main uses of FTP. In Internet most of the data is travel through the FTP. You might have seen most of the websites starts with the http this stands for HyperText Transfer Protocol which is used to send the small files which are used to screen to display. On the other hand FTP is used to transfer large files which are to be sent as group which are saved but not displayed.

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