As pulished in the Annual Press Newsletter
Let’s start with the obvious one first. Standard web hosting would be any services plan you choose with a web host that offers a few amenities. For example, you want to keep it simple. Your website is just maybe 10 web pages. You want the site to have enough space to grow and you want your bandwidth to with stand the traffic that will be coming in. Also, you want a particular type of software to go with your site. hence the amenity. In the post” What is web hosting?” I likened it to having an apartment or condo with all of the amenities. wood floors, Gym, laundry room, parking, and security. Right? How about we do a comparison?
Apartment: This would be your web space in general. Lets say you have 13,000 square feet. That would be 13BG of space.
Parties: Bandwidth in which traffic or real time visitors go to your web site. Hence, the party in your apartment. that would be at least 5 GB of Data Transfer
Classic range or Convection Oven: That would be the soft ware that allows you to edit your website and update it’s files. Hence the cooking in your apartment. That is a particular utility called a WYSG Editor (What you See is what you get)
Laundry room: its a dirty job but someone has to do it. Sometimes those files get corrupted and you need to clean them out. Would you keep dirty clothes in your house too long? NO. So why would you keep corrupted files on your server?
Chrome no frost refrigerator: Well, Where is all of that wholesome food going to go hmm? Your web host might offer database software like MySQL. this allows you to have your blog and other information stored there incase you need to go back to it. this allows people who visit your site see the information. This is a definite plus because your site might crash and you loose all data. It’s always a good idea to have backup.
What Exactly am I trying to say? In order to figure out what kind of web hosting service to choose, it is important to know what it is. With that knowledge you will better understand how to search for a web host without too much hassle on that front.
In conclusion, Web Hosting can be likened to renting a home or an apartment. The most important thing to do is know what web hosting is and what sort of plan to get. In this case a standard plan.
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