Learning the basic: A beginners guide to Web Hosting
What is web hosting? This question must have been answered zillions of times, yet time and again people who are new to internet marketing keen to step into the web development scenario often look out for an up to date definition for the same. As the internet is changing at par with the technological advancements, intelligence is the new thing !
Be it web hosting or search engine, food or entertainment, everything is being intelligently presented now. Gone are the days when everything seemed monotonous and robotic. Times are changing. Even the captcha codes have gone all gaga now!
Coming back to our topic, lets try to understand what Web Hosting is all about as per the latest definitions.
World Wide Web 101
Try to analyze the files and folders present in your computer. Being stored in your computer’s hard disk, these files can be fetched anytime as per your need and intent. On a similar note, a web page can be considered as a file stored on the world wide web, something quite similar to a word document or a music file stored on your computer’s hard disk. In just the same way your word processing documents need a computer for storage purpose, likewise, all web pages require a computer to store them. So whats so special about the web pages? Web pages are intended to be seen by the general public. Case in point, a very high-end machine is needed that has to be connected via the internet to host these web pages.
Definition: A computer that stores web pages is called a Web Server.
Many stacked web pages can be termed as a website. When all the web pages are to be collectively defined, we call it the World Wide Web.
The task of developing websites and web pages that are supposed to be publically available on the internet is known as web hosting. The term web hosting can also be referred as a web space because at the end of the day, the so called web hosting service providers are offering you nothing but “web space”.
When it comes to the parameters of analysis , web space is generally speculated in terms of megabytes in a similar fashion as that of how your own computer is measured.
What’s the need for web hosting?
Technically it is thinkable of connecting a computer to the internet and let it serve pages. Yet practically a home based internet connection won't be powerful enough to serve many web users at a time simultaneously. Hence it is ideal to hook up with a well-reputed web server and buy web space as per your needs.