Web Hosting is an online service which enable a website owner host a website on a special computer called server. But what is the mean of Host & Server?
Host means storing website files (Text, Images, etc) on server in order to publicly accessible on the internet whenever user want to access it.
A server is a physical computer located in any specific location or multiple location where all files of website are hosted. Your web hosting service provider is responsible for running your website online without any interruption 24*7.
When someone type your website URL in the browser and hit enter, browser sends a request to the server where all files are hosted,
after checking which type of data a server has to transfer to the browser, server transfer that data and It became visible on browser to the user/customer/client.
There is some major reason your business website needs a web hosting
24*7 Availability: Your customers can buy product or services from you whenever they want with their flexibility of time.
Globel Business: When you host your website, it become available on the internet. By this, you can build relationship with international clients and expand your business globally.
Security: Web hosting service provider companies have a dedicated experienced and skilled team for your website security which enable you to go your business online without any fear and enjoy doing business online.
Website Control: Building or hosting your website on platforms like Blogger, Tumbler etc, you are going to take risk for your website/business. Because the website owner on these platforms taken down their website for breaking certain rule or condition but you should say yourself thank you to host your website on trustable web hosting.
Scalability: Scalability means you can upgrade and downgrade your web hosting according to your requirements.
Web hosting companies provide various types of web hosting. Choose accordingly that suits your business.
Shared hosting means you are sharing a server with other clients. This type of hosting mostly used for small businesses and personal blogs.
VPS stands for Virtual Private Server (VPS). In VPS Hosting, your web hosting provider allocates an entirely separate portion on the server but you are still sharing server with other clients. In VPS Hosting you get a reserve amount of resources for your website.
This type of hosting suitable for medium size business with growing websites and traffic.
Dedicated Hosting means you have a dedicated own physical server that serves only your website and you have entirely reservation and control on server.
This type of hosting suitable for large size business that deals with heavy traffic.
In Cloud Hosting, you will host your website or the data of your website will be available on multiple servers. When one server is busy then traffic will automatically transfer to another cloud server.
With Cloud Hosting, you can serve your customer without downtime which is excellent for a busy website.
WordPress Hosting is a form of shared hosting, created for specially WordPress site owners who are interested in creating content and growing their businesses.
WordPress Hosting comes with highly optimized configuration so that your website loads faster and runs with little issues.
Technical Support: If your face any problem just contact their technical support team they will handle your all problems.
Data Management: Wherever you go web hosting companies manage all of your website data like images, videos, text, etc
Backup & Restore: This is the biggest benefit of web hosting. You can take backup & restore website before if anything goes wrong.
Time Saving: With professional web hosting business personalities can save their time and can use this time in other business operations.
Domain-Associated Email Address: Most of the web hosting companies offers free business email associated with your domain name. If you don’t get it for free then buy it from the same web hosting company.