What is Web hosting?
Rise of Internet and allied services: Internet was developed in the decade starting 1980 and a number of organizations contributed a lot in its development. The major contributors include the United States Department of Defense which had started a network named ARPANET for its internal uses in the late 1960s. After that, there were a number of combinations by various organizations and individuals. With the help of British scientist Tim Burns-Lee, premier European atomic research organization named CERN developed Internet and is credited with development of modern day Internet.
Web Hosting
Various forms of businesses have emerged since the introduction of internet. Internet marketing, development of websites and Social media networking are some of the offshoots of the internet. All these services have been used very effectively by numerous companies who have earned large revenues with the help of internet based services and various companies like Google, Facebook, Yahoo etc have internet based products. Google has revenues in excess of $23 Billion annually and Facebook has around $1 billion global revenues.
Users can make their own websites on the internet using web hosting. There are lots of service providers across the world, which provide such services. Such companies own servers which can be leased out to the website owners to host their websites. A server is a computer combined with related software which has a huge space available which can be used by the owner to provide various services to its clients. Further, various technologies are used in web hosting. These include PHP and HTML etc. There are some proprietary softwares such as ASP.net, SQL etc which are owned by Microsoft technologies.
While technologies like HTML, PHP and some database servers can be used without any cost. Most of the times, you would need to spend some amount in order to get a website of your own. However, there are some websites which may provide you such services without any cost. In such cases, you would not get complete web address of your choice and there would be a lot of advertisements along with the web page that you obtain. Such services are available in a wide range of prices. This generally depends upon the additional services which are provided along with the hosting services.
Such websites make use of web servers which are used to provide storage space and other services. The user may get a complete server on lease or may need to share it with several other users. This depends on the type of plan being purchased by the user. By making use of certain plans, you can sell such services by your self and you become a service provider on your own.
These plans are called reseller plans and need to be purchased at a much higher price than other plans. Retail consumers and new start ups generally go for shared hosting plans which might be available within their budget. There are many websites which provide reviews about the service providers and any one going to buy any such plan should refer to such websites beforehand.
