Introduction of Web Hosting Features
These are the functions that are described so you will be sure what they are excellent at supporting in hosting your web 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.’ That means that the more people visiting a web site, the more the bandwidth needed.
3. Protected directories: This is an important feature for websites, using a password webmasters can prevent access to directories or pages of a website. 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 Features: When signing up for a web hosting account, the providers also give email accounts. It could be anything from twenty 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. Of course FTP is not the only way of uploading files to the web server, programs like FrontPage Extension help in uploading directly.
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