Web Hosting services: How web, domain and server works?
At first, we have to familiar with 3 terms before making a website live or knowing about Web Hosting that are Web, Server, and Domain.
Like a tree has a lot of branches, let here the branches are the computer that is connected through digital satellite signals, cable, phone line or other types of data-transfer mechanisms, then the Tree is the Web where all the Computers talking to each other.
The Server is nothing rather than a Computer. It is just like
Computer or Device that you are using too. But there is a between the server computer to any other normal computer. In the Server Computer, a special software named ‘Server Software’ is loaded which helps to connect all those computers. This software basically serves web pages and websites. In this software, a bunch of websites is loaded and waits for a user who is searching for a particular webpage. When the user requests a web page via a browser, the server sends the web page loaded on it.
The Domain is the official address of your website likely the name of your website. Everyone’s house has a unique address so that one can find it, similarly every website must have a unique address so that rest of the world can find it out, otherwise no one would understand where to go. The domain cannot be duplicate means once you registered a domain name it is wholly owned by you, no one can use these name further.
Cost estimation of Hosting a website:
It is not free, as you have to pay few bucks yearly for owing the name. The cost of registering a domain varies from $10 to $30 and maybe more. 'Address Book' where all the world's domain names registered that needs to be updated and kept going. To maintain this the domain registration cost.
There are two ways by which you can make your website
live:
- Registration of the domain name
- Hire some server space to host your website.
Registration of the domain name- There are a lot of companies offering different services where you can register your domain name. With the quality of the service, the price varies. Nowadays it is often that the name you may have the interest to register in is already taken by someone. As earlier said the domain should be unique.
Hire some server space to host your website- To serve your website on the world wide web, you need to rent some space on a server. This process often called ‘Hosting’ which is provided by different Hosting Companies. There are different types of hosting as shared hosting, dedicated hosting, VPS hosting or cloud hosting. To choose a hosting, it depends upon you what your website for and how much traffic you have. After registering your domain name, you just need to contact a Hosting provider whose plan is suitable as per your requirement. Some hosting companies also provide domain registration. The Hosting company will make your website live and guide you further with more information. In short, this is all about Web Hosting.
Some companies which provide web hosting are listed below:
- Google cloud
- Amazon Web Services
- Digital ocean
- Reseller Club
- Bigrock
- iPage
- Go Daddy
- Softlayer
- Bluehost
- Hostgator
The list looks nice with industry-top companies, offering multiple products and services globally.
ReplyDeleteHowever, there are lots of web hosting companies and many of them offer sometimes even better products and services if you compare with their prices and
technical support.
E.g. India based web hosting provider Domain & Server ( https://domainandserver.com/ ) has many great features starting from beginners in the web industry and ending for high end online Business projects.
I'd suggest to check them and many other small but reputable hosting providers, which are best with their services.
Thank you.
Thank you so much for providing enriched knowledge about web hosting service.
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