Web Hosting Features Explanation

September 25, 2008 · Filed Under Web Hosting Criteria 

These are the features that are defined so that you can know how exactly they are good at helping in hosting your site.

1. Disk Space or Web Space: This space is in context with the volume of disk storage provided by the web site hosting service to store a website on the web hosting company’s server. It can range anywhere from one GB to 10GB; this means that if each web page is about thirty KB and it is possible to store approximately three thousand static web pages on 1GB disk space.

2. Bandwidth or Data Transfer: This is the total volume of data allowed to be transferred from a website every month, or is better defined by using the term ‘monthly traffic.’ This means that the more users visiting a website, the more the bandwidth required.

3.Secured directories: This is an critical feature for web sites, using a PIN webmasters can avoid access to directories or web pages of a web site. Only visitor that have a login ID can visitor the restricted areas. For the purpose to enable the PIN protection web masters should create and modify the “.htaccess” and “.htpasswd” files, though majority of the web hosting services such as Yahoo Hosting have a Control Panel to do this.

4.Email functions: When purchase a webhosting account, the services providers also give email address. {It could be anything betwen 20 to ‘n’ in number}. The privilege of such accounts is that they have it in sync with the website address as the forward address,

5. FTP: File Transfer Protocol, these accounts are used to upload the websites that have been created on the computer. Web host providers support multiple FTP accounts, incase multiple users are needed to upload web pages on the server. Most of the times, one FTP login is not enough, this is why you are given with more than one accounts. Certainly FTP is also a way of transfering files to the web server, software like FrontPage Extension help in transfering directly.

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