A full description of hosting environment

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A Full Description Of Hosting Environment

Web hosting is a service that makes your website available to your users. It is a service which is provided by any group that offers space for storage of web pages. Web hosting is a service in which individuals are able to make their own website. In this process, individual contacts the hosting providers which are also called web hosts. These web hosts provide space on the internet, with which you are able to access your own website on World Wide Web. The one who wants to own his website, have to pay for space on a special computer server. The hosting facility takes care of all these processes. Like in the telephone directory, you have address of various people to know their location; similarly your website has a physical address that is used to trace the location of your own website. These physical addresses have their own importance and this is a yellow page directory which is also called Domain Name System. Domain Name System (DNS) works similarly as Global Positioning System (GPS) for your website. The hosted server on which your website is working is shown by Internet Protocol address, which is also called IP address. The IP address is a long number which shows the location of your computer on which your site is working. Websites are of different types. The single page which is used to make website is called web page. The files and other material are uploaded on the site via File Transfer Protocol (FTP). These files require very minimal process for uploading. Personal websites are usually free. To make your site, you have to know about cheap web hosting importance. If you want to have a complex site, then you should have different platforms like PHP, Java, and


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