What is Web Hosting?
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December 6th, 2007 | 
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What is Web Hosting?
Web hosting has taken a fly start in recent years. It is an internet based service, which allows any individual or organization to float their web sites. If you have a business you may feel the need of creating a web site to be available for the internet users. As an individual you can even want to make your web site accessible through World Wide Web.
There are many companies at present providing this hosting service. Such companies are called hosts. Actually these companies own server. They provide space to their clients on the server they have. They not only provide space but also provide internet connection. The hosts also provide space for data. For this they have data centre. In some occasion the hosting companies also give space in the server and data centre, which they do not own. Such provision of providing space of data centre is known as collocation.
The service of web hosting has become more popular in recent times. The scope of this service is also wide. The most initial work of web hosting is web page hosting. Next comes hosting of small files. In this case file are uploaded and transferred through protocol. This system is known as “File Transfer Protocol”, or in brief FTP. Under this transferring of files, the files are sent to the web either keeping it intact or after little processing.
At present there are many provider of internet service, who do this job free of cost for their customers. There are also many other alternatives through which you can transfer you files. Basically personal web hosting is free, or is very cheap. But if you want to host a business web site, then definitely it is expensive. Hosting a complex site requires expertise and skill.
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