What Do You Mean by A Plus Web Hosting?

Everyone wants to be on the internet, the opportunities in the internet are limitless.  However, when you say you want to be on the internet, what exactly is entailed in being on the internet.  Having a presence on the internet requires only a few things, a domain registration,  a plus web hosting and an ftp upload program.  This may sound confusing but it will all be explained in fairly simple terms for those of you who aren’t internet savvy, yet.    Consider the internet as a huge highway and a web site is a a room off the highway where you have your information displayed for visitors to review.

Domain Registration

Domain registration is fairly easy to understand, its your address on the internet.  It tells people in an easy to understand method where to find you on this super highway.  Once you find a catchy name, not already taken, you will register that name and then select a web site hosting company to display your site.  It is you.com, though other choices are now available such as .biz, .net, .org, .tv, etc. You can check to see if your domain is still available by checking the many domain name registration services or at http://www.internic.org/whois.html.

A Plus Web Hosting and Small Business Web Hosting

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I list these two headings together because they are need to be the same.  Web hosting is a service that is offered by a hosting service provider for a fee. The fee is generally associated with a package of services that you can buy from the hosting provider. Standard web hosting packages come with email, storage space and bandwidth choices but in amounts too small for the average small business.    A small business needs an a plus web hosting package which provides the services that most small businesses will need to get a website up and running and usually include more storage, more bandwidth and some type of ecommerce package.   Small business web hosting is more expensive than a standard web hosting package but provides greater resources and security that a business requires for it's hosting needs.

E-mail is the number of mailboxes you need, storage space is the amount of space your web site can use on a server hard drive and bandwidth is how much transfer of digitial information is allowed for your web site each month.  To go back to our room analogy, your storage space is the size of your room, the e-mail is how many mail slots your need for that room and your bandwidth is the traffic in the parking lot for your room.  Figure out your room size by figuring out how many bytes of hard drive storage all your website pages, pictures, email etc will require.  This is difficult for the average user so most hosting plans provide more storage than is normally required and have upgraded plans where you can increase your storage as needed.

Bandwidth is how much data is transferred each time someone visits your site.  If you website is 1 MB (1000 bytes) and you have 5 visitors a day you use 5000 bytes.  However, remember if you have multiple pages, figure that each visitor will click on each page at least once.  So when you look at your website hosting, look for the amount of these three items needed.

ftp Program

You have almost survived your website hosting decisions, you just need to determine how you are going to get your website up to the hosting company server.  To do this you will need a .ftp (file transfer protocol) program.  Many web site hosting services have a built-in .ftp services and many choices of programs are available.  To go back to our room analogy, this is the forklift you use to put your products or information out for public view.  This program will transfer the files that you have created on your computer, to the computer space you have purchased on your web site hosting service’s server.

Web site hosting is not a small decision and you need choose your web site hosting provider carefully. Evaluate the plans of various web hosting companies and don't make the mistake of going for the lowest price.  You operate a quality business and you need an A Plus web hosting company to handle your web site needs.

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