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In order to allow visitors to access your website over the internet, you need to rent a website hosting space on a web server. A web hosting provider often bundles web server space rental with other services into a so called "web hosting package".
Web hosting packages vary in price, depending what is included in a bundle. There are providers which offer free web hosting but they are generally not recommended.
Web hosting packages vary in price, depending what is included in a bundle. There are providers which offer free web hosting but they are generally not recommended.
Those providers often are unreliable, use inferior infrastructure and frequently force you to display ads on your website, to cover the cost of maintaining their web servers. they are ok, if you want to host your personal website, but they are nor suitable for business purposes.
Before you sign up for a hosting package, you need to analyse your hosting needs, such as the amount of web space, FTP access, file types you need to host, how critical it is for you that the website can be accessed 24/7, what scripting languages will you need and how many visitors do you expect to visit your site per month. you also need to analyse your needs in terms of number and type of databases, email facilities and technical support.
Most sites use less than 5 MB of space on the server. Your needs will vary according to number of pages on your website and the page content. Media-rich websites which include a lot of graphics/pictures, video or sound may require more space. With most hosting packages your web space is shared between your website and your email accounts, so if you have a number of email accounts and don't download your emails , you may quickly run out of your allocated space.
FTP access allows you to upload your website and other files to the web server. Some cheap hosts don't provide FTP access, forcing you to build your website using their online site builder tools.
For business hosting you need to look for the hosting provider which guarantees 99.99% server uptime and fast access. If the access to your site is slow, potential visitors to your site will go elsewhere.
Most web hosting packages come with a specific bandwidth allocation. If this allocation is low and you have a lot of traffic, your web host may disable your site or bill you extra for exceeding your bandwidth. A bandwidth of 100MB per month is probably sufficient for a static personal site, while a 3 GB bandwidth maybe not sufficient even for a small business website.
YourNameOnTheWeb Hosting Packages
Depending on your particular requirements, we can provide you with hosting on professional, business servers located either in Ireland, UK, US or Poland.
We only use the most reliable hosting providers, who invest in the very best technology, infastructure and people. We charge a nominal fee of €60 per year (or €5 per month) for hosting of most small business websites.
Our web hosting package includes:
Before you sign up for a hosting package, you need to analyse your hosting needs, such as the amount of web space, FTP access, file types you need to host, how critical it is for you that the website can be accessed 24/7, what scripting languages will you need and how many visitors do you expect to visit your site per month. you also need to analyse your needs in terms of number and type of databases, email facilities and technical support.
Web Space
Most sites use less than 5 MB of space on the server. Your needs will vary according to number of pages on your website and the page content. Media-rich websites which include a lot of graphics/pictures, video or sound may require more space. With most hosting packages your web space is shared between your website and your email accounts, so if you have a number of email accounts and don't download your emails , you may quickly run out of your allocated space.
FTP Access
FTP access allows you to upload your website and other files to the web server. Some cheap hosts don't provide FTP access, forcing you to build your website using their online site builder tools.
Reliability and Speed of Access
For business hosting you need to look for the hosting provider which guarantees 99.99% server uptime and fast access. If the access to your site is slow, potential visitors to your site will go elsewhere.
Bandwidth allocation
Most web hosting packages come with a specific bandwidth allocation. If this allocation is low and you have a lot of traffic, your web host may disable your site or bill you extra for exceeding your bandwidth. A bandwidth of 100MB per month is probably sufficient for a static personal site, while a 3 GB bandwidth maybe not sufficient even for a small business website.
YourNameOnTheWeb Hosting Packages
Depending on your particular requirements, we can provide you with hosting on professional, business servers located either in Ireland, UK, US or Poland.
We only use the most reliable hosting providers, who invest in the very best technology, infastructure and people. We charge a nominal fee of €60 per year (or €5 per month) for hosting of most small business websites.
Our web hosting package includes:
| ■ | 5 MB server space |
| ■ | 10 GB bandwidth |
| ■ | 24x7 FTP access |
| ■ | Daily Backups |
| ■ | 99.99% guaranteed uptime |
| ■ | Unparallel site security SSL |
| ■ | Website Statistics |
| ■ | Free Email Addresses with Email Forwarding, Autoresponders, POP3 or IMAP, Web Mail |
| ■ | Google® Webmaster Tools |
| ■ | Web site statistics |
| ■ | MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQL Server 2005 Database |
