Web hosting is the act of renting space and bandwidth through a company so that you may publish your web site online.
You can either opt for free hosting that is usually supported with banners and pop ups, or may opt to get paid web hosting, which gives you complete control over your site contents.
A domain name is a word along with a TLD that uniquely identifies your website.
Please visit our domains page for more information.
Registering a domain name is very easy.
First you will have to make sure that the domain you want is available - using WHOIS lookup at site - for registration.
Afterwards, you simply need to purchase your domain name.
Diskspace is the size your website can be. Every single letter on your website has to be stored somewhere on your web host's server. Each letter is one byte, and a megabyte is roughly one million bytes. HTML pages are usually very small, but it is the extra images, scripts, and even databases that can take up large amounts of disk space.
Bandwidth/Transfer is the amount of data the server will allow your site to send in a month. Transfer is usually measured in gigabytes - billions of bytes.
Flash is a client side feature - it runs on the user's computer, not on your web host. As long as the user's browser has the correct plugin installed, it will run on their computer.
You can view your detailed stats by using AWstate and Webalizer stats program which can be found in your Control Panel.
These are all programming languages which are referred to by their acronyms.
PHP - PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
ASP - Active Server Pages
Perl - not an acronym
Each programming language has its own benefits and uses. It is best that you research on your own to find one that best fits your needs.
MySQL and MS SQL are database systems. Depending on what your host provides, you can use a database to organize your data.
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Consider subdomains as an extension of your domain. For example, your site is www.example.com. A subdomain would be test.example.com, and another would be webhosting.example.com.
Subdomains are usually treated as separate sites from the main domain site.
Uploading your site can be done in many ways, but the most popular is FTP.
When your hosting account was created, you should have been provided with an FTP account. Using software such as CuteFTP or WS_FTP, you can log into your host. Then, using the program like a normal windows program, you can drag and drop files onto your web host. These files become live online instantaneously.
There are other ways to upload your site such as using SSH or uploading files through your browser
The choice then depends on what your needs are.
For those that need tight integration with Microsoft products such as .NET, MS SQL, MS Access, and so forth, Windows-based web hosting is your only solution.
So it really boils down to what you need. If you need MS product support, Windows web hosting is your only option. Otherwise Linux web hosting will likely be a better choice.
In order to make it easy to control your hosting account, we offer a control panel to the user. This control panel is then used to modify and add important parts of your website, including:
* Email Accounts
* FTP Accounts
* SQL Databases
* Change Password
* Park and Add Domains
More advanced features include the ability to:
* Password Protect Directories
* Backups
* Website Statistics
* Subdomains
The most popular web hosting control panel is Plesk.
Webmail allows you to access your email from anywhere on the world through the web, just like how Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail, GMail, and etc work. Popular webmail applications include Squirrelmail, Horde (which is more than just webmail), and NeoMail.