Website Hosting Features Explaination
March 31st, 2009
When it comes to web hosting there are a number of features that are related to the services. These features are needed to be used in combination with each other so that it managing and maintaining a website becomes easy. There are plenty of web hosting services available in the web hosting industry today, but each offers different extra features with a few common amongst them.
Here are some of the web hosting features that are explained so that you can understand how exactly they are capable of helping in hosting your website.
1. Disk Space or Web Space: This space is in context with the volume of disk storage provided by the web hosting service to store a website on the web hosting company’s server. It can range anywhere from 1GB to 10GB; this means that if each web page is about 30 KB and it is possible to store approximately three thousand static web pages on 1GB disk space. A single website can use anywhere between five to fifty MB of disk space. However, the disk space is also provided for other functions besides the web pages, like email, database files and archived web log files.
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 users visiting a website, the more the bandwidth required.
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 most of the web hosting services have a Control Panel to do this.
4. Email Features: When signing up for a web hosting account, the 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, for instance, xyz@example.com assuming the website address is www.example.com. These email features made available with the web hosting services also have additional functionalities like Email Forwarding / Alias, Auto responders, Mailing List and Spam Filtering.
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. Majority of the times, one FTP account is not sufficient, this is the reason that you are provided with multiple 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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