What is Web Hosting and How to choose a suitable one?

What is Web hosting and How to choose a suitable one?

What is Web hosting? Web hosting is also known as hosting, web hosting, web space, web hosting space or some other terms related. In fact, it’s the space on the web server where you can store your websites. Your website is anything about web files, web pages, web images and also mp3 files, movie files,…

Web hosting is the space where your websites place and it processes any requests from internet users. The requests are something like downloading files, uploading files, processing an shopping order or requesting an mp3 file…

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Web hosting features you should know?

When choosing the web hosting, you need to consider many features that the hosting can provides to you. These features listed below can give you some references when buying (what is web hosting?)

1. Hosting Space

This is the number of spaces (count as MB, GB) that your hosting has. Usually, many shared hosting services provide unlimited storage for your website, others also can give you some GB of space such as 10GB, 15GB, 20GB,…The more space you have, the more files and pages you can store on your hosting. So if you have a large website and database for your business, you need a large web hosting space to store all of them.

2. Hosting Bandwidth

This is the measurement in MB/GB of the maximum data that can be transferred in the second time. In fact, it’s an amount of data transferred in a month. Usually, nowadays, many hosting services provide unlimited bandwidth for your website. That is your site can operate without exhausted bandwidth in download, upload or sharing media files.

3. Hosting Domains

This is the number of domains that your web hosting allow to have. That means the number of websites you can store on it. Usually, many hosting providers give it unlimited for you, then you can host unlimited websites for your variety of business.

4. Database

This is the number of MySQL database that your hosting allow to have. The more database you have, the more website you can create on your web hosting.

5. Free domain include

This is whether you have more free domain when you buy hosting or not. Nowadays almost hosting providers will give free 1 domain (.com, .net, .org, .info, .biz,…) when you buy hosting with at least 1 year. An example at Godaddy, you can buy hosting just only for $1/mo + free domain, then it’s just $12/yr + free .COM domain.

6. Hosting speed

This is also known as the loading time or the time that your website loads completely on the browser. This time is as low as better. You need to choose the hosting that has the loading time low so internet users can access your website fast.

7. Hosting load capacity

That is the capacity of the host that many users can access your website at the same time. This is usually the experience when you use many hosting services and have experience about that. So if you buy hosting for the first time, choose the host that has many positive feedbacks or positive ratings from other guys

8. Hosting Support

This is the availability of support for your hosting. If you have problems with your hosting such as it can not connect, the website shut down,…or something that you can not control your hosting account anymore, you can contact the support team and receive the responses as you expected. Usually measuring by responsive time, the way to contact (live chat, phone, email, tickets,…) and readiness

9. Other features

Other features such as File Manager, FTP Manager, 1-Click install, WordPress support, Unlimited Email accounts,…

Conclusions

What is Web hosting? Choosing the right and the best hosting is always the important step to start a website for your business. So you should do this step carefully, research deeply, ask others to give a right advice.

Good luck to you and to your business,