Web Hosting Service

When you're going to put your Web page up on the Internet, you need a Web Hosting Service provider. They range from free services with few options up to expensive business hosting and even hosting you run yourself. Which option you choose depends upon how you plan to use your Website, how much you want to spend, and how much time you want to spend maintaining the servers that make up the Website. Web Hosting Service is a place that has one or many computers that store your website and make it available to the Internet. Your website is housed on a "web server" which is basically a specialized computer. 

One of the most important decisions you'll make for your business Website is selecting which Web Hosting Service will display your Web pages to the Internet with a good Internet Service Provider. There are generally two types of Web Hosting Service accounts available, virtual and non-virtual service. Virtual Web Hosting Service refers to leasing space on a web server where you have your own domain name. This type of account enables your Web site to have a professional appearance and enables potential visitors to find your site more easily. An additional benefit to having a virtual domain account is that many search engines and directories will rank your site higher if you have a virtual domain. 

Non-virtual Web Hosting Service accounts provide you with space on a web server but without using a domain name. In this case the URL to your Web site might be something like http://tripod.com/yourname/yourfiles.html. As you can see, this is much more difficult to remember than a simple domain name. The major benefit of non-virtual Web Hosting Service is that it can often be found free of charge. Many companies on the Web offer free non-virtual domain accounts. These include GeoCities, Tripod, Beseen, etc. 

There are several different types of Web Hosting Service available, depending on your hosting needs. They differ in cost, quality and professionalism. Choose the one that meets your needs and budget, exactly in the way you want.

· Free Web Hosting Service: Several companies offer free web hosting services usually with a catch: you have to display banner ads, text ads or pop-up ads on your web pages. This is not the recommended way to go unless you just want a personal or hobby web page up on the web.

· Shared Web Hosting Service: This is the minimum type of hosting plan we recommend for anyone serious about putting up a quality site on the Internet. With shared hosting, you basically are sharing a web server with other users to keep the cost down. While this is good from a pricing perspective, some web hosts have been known to overload their servers with several hundred (or several thousand) web sites and in these cases the performance or the stability of the web server itself can suffer.

· Dedicated Web Hosting Service: With dedicated hosting, as the name implies, you get your own web server that is not shared with anyone else. You usually have full control over your server and pay a monthly rental for the server and the bandwidth you either plan to use or that you actually use. If you are serious about your business and wish to keep control of your website in your “control” then you should opt for dedicated Web Hosting Service.