What is Web Hosting? Part-2
6 min readConsider your Website to be an Actual Company.
You probably won’t ever visit a data center to witness what goes on there because web hosting sounds like something that happens virtually. To make things simpler, we’ll examine each duty of the web host using the example of starting and operating a legitimate company.
The same things you’ll need when starting a new business apply here: a name, a location, a staff, and a product. Similar requirements apply when launching a new website: a name (domain name), a location (web server), a staff member (you or the webmaster), and a product (website content).
Choosing a business name
Just as when starting a business, it needs a name. You must choose a name for your website when opening a hosting account; otherwise, you won’t be allowed to begin building it. Part 2 of this guide has further information on selecting the best domain name.
Notably, the majority of hosting providers also provide domain registration services. Some people maintain their hosting account and domain name distinct at the registrar provider. For easy management and upkeep, we advise putting everything under your hosting account.
deciding where to locate your business
If your website is your company, then your hosting is the place where your company is housed. Your host providers can be compared to your landlords. They lease you a space, take care of the necessities, and you pay them rent, but you are in charge of everything else. Finding the best hosting provider is crucial to the success of your website and can be challenging; however, more on that in Part 3 of the tutorial.
You may discover a variety of web hosting packages online, ranging from free hosting to purchasing your own dedicated server. If you don’t already know how to obtain thousands of visitors, we advise against trying to get too big right immediately. Also, avoid free hosting offers (free cheese is only in a mousetrap). Your web hosting plan can grow with your website if you start with a simple shared or personal hosting plan and upgrade as necessary.
Recognize who will perform all of the work.
There isn’t much need for analogies in this part. Both websites and businesses require staff to manage operations, deliver new items or information to the appropriate places, and keep both up to date. You still need to update the content of your website even if you are not selling tangible goods there.
Even though not every website must be updated every day, it is still wise to regularly add new content. If an update is required once a month, you might be able to handle it on your own, but if it is required once a week or even once a day, you may want to recruit more staff.
Prepare your company and merchandise.
Adding new material to your website is similar to adding fresh inventory to a physical store. Even the most devoted clients will eventually cease coming if you don’t stay up to date, fresh, and always stocked. Despite the fact that you paid for hosting, it is your obligation, not that of your provider, to add material to your website.
Note: Continuing with the landlord and building comparison, your host is responsible for looking after your server. Thus, just as the landlord is accountable for the building’s fixtures, the host is also accountable for the computer, power, and internet connection.
The server and website both exist independently of the building and business. Although they collaborate, you are free to move your business elsewhere and the building will remain standing. In a similar way, even if you transfer your website, the server will continue to function.
Additional requirements for running your business
You should be able to launch your website using these four fundamental components. To successfully operate your website, there are a few additional factors that we should address. The following are the items: furniture, office supplies, a key to enter, insurance, upkeep, security, and advertising. The same options are available for your website (part 4 of this tutorial has more information on this topic):
Decor is your website’s design. control panel for hosting accounts username and password are the keys. Insurance is a backup plan, tools for updating content = updating Keeping your login information up to date is security.
Abstain from novice misconceptions
Creating a website and purchasing hosting are still relatively new concepts for most people. It takes effort to understand what comes first and who is accountable for it. We will discuss both your duty and that of your host in this section. We’ll talk about typical misunderstandings and rookie errors.
What a web host should provide
Your landlord is your host, as we’ve already mentioned. The power, server space, internet connection, and ensuring that the server is always available are all handled by hosting providers. It is their responsibility to fix any of those that are broken. It is your obligation to fix any issues with your website if there are any. Usually, web host support will collaborate with you to identify whether the issue is on your end or theirs.
It is your site host’s duty to provide you with assistance. Support may be provided via phone, online chat, email, social networking, a FAQ database, or another method. Although some hosts provide multiple choices, there are only so many things they can do for you. As always, pinpointing the issue will help you make the most of your support.
Most hosts would advise you to contact a fixer if the issue is with your website. Some of them might suggest someone to you. A handful of them may have staff members who can assist you in solving the problem, obviously at an additional price. It would be absurd to believe that any landlord could resolve issues with every kind of office, gallery, or store, and the same holds true for web servers. You can create a website using a variety of languages and technologies, so you can’t assume that everyone will be able to handle every issue.
You are accountable for your website.
Your website is your duty, as I’ve said numerous times, but it bears repeating. However, there are countless ways for you to lose all of your data or just some of it, and with that, your website. Things could go wrong for a number of causes, including fire, flood, explosions, or even bored hackers who chose to tinker with the server your website is hosted on. Here, we’ll reiterate the value of having a solid backup strategy. It’s much simpler to fix a few overlooked elements than to start from scratch while developing your website.
There are some guidelines that you should follow when maintaining your website. Always make a backup of your website in case something goes wrong. Keep your username and password secure and difficult to guess so that hackers can’t access your account. Update the programme on which you will base your website.
Conclusion: Web hosting isn’t very complicated to understand, but in order to navigate the web hosting services industry, you’ll need to be familiar with certain basic terminologies. Learn what is required to host a website, what your responsibilities are, and what your web hosting company is responsible for.
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