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Web Hosting - A Beginner's Guide

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If this is your very first time of buying a web hosting service or run a website, then lucky for you as you'll find lots of useful info in this article.

Consider the folders and files stored on your desktop or laptop computer's hard disk that are available whenever you needed them. A website like any other word processing document is a file. In addition to that, your word processing documents like all other websites need a computer to be able to store them. Websites are different in a way that they're designed to be viewed generally by the public. For this to become possible, the computer wherein the files are stored have to come with higher specification compared to your desktop as well as more powerful and fast internet connection.

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Websites are also stored on a computer or otherwise referred to as web server. A website compose of web pages that are joined together and the WWW or World Wide Web is made up of all websites across the globe. Web hosting is basically the job of making websites and web pages for online users. At times, the product that companies are offering is referred to as web space as they're providing you space online so you'll be able to host your page. Each and every web space is being measured in terms of MB or Megabytes, in the same way that the space is measured on your computer.

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Anyone can connect his or her laptop to the internet and let it serve web pages. On the other hand, this isn't a very practical ideas as generally, home based internet connection doesn't have sufficient power to serve a number of users at the same time. That's the reason why hosting companies are in the scene. They have very powerful web servers that are capable of storing multiple web pages. In addition to that, they have strong connections to be able to connect to web servers to the internet, which allows plenty of web users to access your web pages simultaneously.

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In addition to supplying web space, there are several other valuable services that are offered by web hosting companies. However, their range are varying from one company to the other, nearly all of them are providing various basic services. Moreover, they can provide you with technical support by way of telephone, websites or email. So if you are planning to host a website, be sure that you're hosted by a well known company.

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