Web Hosting: the Power Behind the Web

Contributed by Jennifer Aitken

Web Hosting: the Power Behind the Web

The internet today is a high powered machine that is kept running by web hosting. Web hosting is what keeps the internet alive, what keeps every website and web page visible to any consumer or web surfer. There are millions of different websites available on the internet, which means that anyone can have their own site. Before designing and creating any type of website, the first and most important step is to investigate and research your web hosting options.

Economic Web Hosting

There are hundreds of web hosting companies out there for consumers and businesses to choose from. One in particular that is fairly popular is www.godaddy.com. On average, these hosting companies provide the same services and packages for their hosting. The economic package is created for simpler web pages. The options for economic hosting include: small email account, 500MB disk space,monthly data transfer of 25GB; all for on average between 3.00-4.00 dollars per month.

Deluxe or Medium Web Hosting

This is the next highest size of web hosting packages. This would be for someone who is looking for a more complicated, perhaps business website. Someone who is expecting a larger amount of traffic and sales. The same options are available for this size web hosting except with higher memory and email. What is different from the economic package that is offered in the medium size package is the CGI and ASP support for customers.

This is very important factor if your site is being used to sell or promote products in any way. As well, with this package, you have the ability to choose which server you use (Linux or Windows). Being able to make this decision is very important and has a lot to do with how your site runs and operates. The medium packages on average run between 9.00-12 00 dollars per month.

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