These days there are quite a lot of people, small businesses and also large companies that have some form of presence or another on the Internet. This in effect for them is actually a massive form of global exposure for what ever they are trying to portray to the world. It could be anything from community portals to say travel websites or even financial help sites.
This is of course important to anyone who wants to be part of the online world. Two primary things are needed to get a newly created website online; an Internet hosting service and a domain name.
You will initially need a domain name, which is usually your own or your company s name. It is the url, also known as a uniform resource locator, or address, and it is absolutely necessary so people can find your website, it is normally something along the lines of www.yourcompanyname.com. Each and every new domain name has to be registered and is authorized by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
After your hosting service has registered your domain name and uploaded all of your files, all of your images, videos, animations and HTML pages will be available for viewing when your url is typed into the address bar. An Internet hosting or web host will provide storage for your files on one of their servers. This is basically what a hosting company offers and they usually combine it with other services, like email hosting.
Of course, thanks to emerging technologies there are several other services that can be effectively combined with those hosting services. There is a package that several companies will offer and that is called business web hosting for ecommerce websites, which is provided to companies that conduct sales activities or business via the web. An e commerce hosting plan can include many additional options, like shopping cart capabilities, online payment gateways and sometimes even an online merchant account.
When you are choosing an Internet hosting service there are a few things that you want to be sure to get, and two of those things are plenty of available web space and bandwidth. The term web space refers to the amount of megabytes and gigabytes that the company offers with the plan that you choose; this is important as it is used to hold the files needed for a site. It holds the HTML pages and images needed for both personal and business websites, and your site needs room for website logs, emails and any databases. This means the more space needed, the more it will cost.
Not all, but the best hosting companies are now starting to include extras into their packages, that you now seem to need to run a successful online business. These packages would otherwise cost you lots more money if purchased individually. IE: Video hosting and autoresponders to name a but a few.
Take care when choosing your hosting package with extras and make sure you are getting a really good deal.
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