Here are some of the functions that are interpreted so that you can know how exactly they are able to help 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 best web 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 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 users that have a login ID can access these restricted areas. In order to enable the password protection webmasters are needed to create and modify the “.htaccess” and “.htpasswd” files, though majority of the web hosting services such as Hostgator have a Control Panel to do this.

4.Email Features: When purchase a webhosting account, the hosting services providers also give email accounts. These can be anywhere 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 account is not enough, this is the cuase that you are supplied with many accounts. Certainly FTP is not the only method of transfering files to the website server, software like FrontPage Extension help in transfering file directly.

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