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A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to provide their own websites accessible via the world wide web. Web hosts are companies that provide space on a server they own for use by their clients as well as providing Internet connectivity, typically in a data center. Webhosts can also provide data center space and connectivity to the Internet for servers they do not own to be located in their data center, called colocation.

Different Kinds Of Web Hosting
There are different kinds of web hosting setups and dependent upon your website and budget, any of these may be the right type. This is not a discussion of the features a web hosting plan may offer - just a description general types of web hosting

1. Free Web Hosting
It is possible to get free web hosting accounts. These are great for small websites, but normally you have to have a banner ad at the top of every page. Some free accounts let you use your domain name (free virtual hosting) and with some your website address is a subdomain of the free hosting company (www.yoursitename.freehosting.com). This second type is called Free Sub-domain hosting.

Hosting for small websites can be very cheap, but If you can answer yes to all of the following questions, then free web hosting may be right for you.

• I don't care about having ads at the top of every page in my website
• I don't care about the performance / reliability of the website
• I don't expect any customer support
• My website is very small and will never grow

2. Shared Hosting
This is the most common type of web hosting account and can be very low cost. With paid shared (virtual) hosting you pay a monthly fee and get a share on a server. For very low cost plans you may only have a small amount of disk space and a low amount of bandwidth (although this will probably not be a problem for the vast majority of websites). With cheap virtual hosting plans you maybe one site amongst hundreds on the same server - in this case reliability may suffer. For slightly more expensive plans you will probably find better reliability.

3. Dedicated Hosting
With dedicated hosting you have a full server dedicated to your website. This gives you a lot more freedom and you can host potentially hundreds of your own websites. Typically you will have access to the server just like you have access to your PC at home. Dedicated servers are normally reserved for large ecommerce type websites, sites that get a lot of visitors (thousands a day), or for people that want to start their own hosting company and sell shared hosting accounts. A dedicated server is more reliable, but also much more expensive being at least $100 a month vs $1 - $20 range of a shared hosting plan.

4. Colocated Hosting
This is very similar to dedicated hosting, except that you own the server rather than rent it. Your server is placed in the datacenter and connected to the Internet through the web hosting providers fast Internet connection. You will then pay a fee for maintenance and bandwidth.

If you are new to the world of web hosting and you want to create your site as soon as possible, you start by reading our Quick Start Guide instead.

Your first decision will have to be whether you need a paid or a free web host. With the price of plans offered by quality hosts falling down to very affordable levels, only the simplest and less popular sites should consider being hosted by Geocities, Tripod, or other free hosts. Some major differences are the number of features offered by paid hosts (like more disk space, access to multiple programming languages, databases, SSL servers, anon FTP, regular backup, guaranteed uptime, access to server configuration files like .htaccess and to raw logs and statistics), the forced ads and pop-ups required by free web space providers, better financial stability of paid companies, and the availability of technical support. In short, if you expect to spend more than couple hours making your web site, go with a paid service.

Your next big decision should be whether to choose an NT or Unix-based host. Which operating system you decide to use should depend on what features you need. For example, if you are already using IIS, ASP, VBScript, Microsoft SQL Server, or Visual InterDev, and you don't have the time to learn Unix-based solutions, you should choose a Windows NT or Windows 2000-based host. Linux- and FreeBSD-based operating systems and Apache Web servers are most common among web hosting companies because of their good track record of stability and performance and because they are free. There is usually no need for the operating system of your computer to match that of your web host. If you use Windows XP on your home computer, there is no reason you can't use a host that runs its servers on Linux.

Next, you should calculate how much disk space your site will need. A vast majority of sites that don't have tons of graphics, sound and video clips or downloadable files easily fit in 50 MB of disk space. You should always leave yourself some room for growth or check if the host has a bigger plan in case you need to upgrade.

Your next calculation should be how much data transfer you will need. You can estimate your needs by looking at your average page size (including graphics!) and multiplying it by the number of page views you expect to have in a month. For example with an average page size of 50 KB, and around 2000 page views per day, you will transfer an average of 3 GB per month. You should get a plan with 4 to 5 GB of data transfer limit per month, so you don't have to worry about overstepping your account's limit, which may cause extra per GB transfer charges. If your calculations or your previous experience show that you can expect over 50 GB in transfer per month, you should look into getting a dedicated server.

Some hosts advertise unlimited or unmetered accounts. This is usually just a gimmick and you should know that you can't expect them to host your site if they would lose a lot of money on it. Most web hosts pay from $1 to $5 per GB of transfer. Almost all hosts that have "unlimited" plans, specify in their Acceptable Use Policies that no site can use an "excessive" amount of resources. If you use too much disk space, bandwidth, or CPU time, these "unlimited" hosts will ask you to upgrade or leave. So be careful with them check before you get an account, if the transfer usage you expect to have is acceptable.

Next, you should figure out what server-side languages you'll require. Using server-side languages is necessary if you want to be able to create a dynamic site. Even if you don't actually know or want to know how to program in these languages, you should know which ones you'll need, if you want to use ready-made scripts available for free or for a fee on the Web. Perl is the most popular scripting language, but others like PHP are quickly gaining popularity. NT-based plans usually offer ASP (Active Server Pages), for which you can develop in VBScript, JScript, or PerlScript and sometimes they offer ColdFusion. Other programming languages offered by some hosts are JSP, Tcl, Python, server JavaScript, Miva Empressa, and even compiled C/C++.

If your site will store a lot of data that should be dynamically accessible (like user accounts, stock prices, maps), you'll probably need to look for an account that offers a database. Most NT-based plans will offer Microsoft Access or Microsoft SQL Server, and most Unix-based plans will offer mSQL, MySQL, or PostgreSQL. All of them are relational databases. MS SQL Server is much more powerful than Access. MySql and PostgreSQL are more powerful than mSQL.

If you are new to Web hosting and you don't want to use email for technical support, you may want to look for a host that has a phone technical support or even 24x7 toll-free phone technical support. However, you should expect to pay extra for this feature. Almost all problems can be resolved by email or by live chat on a computer. Increasing number of hosts provide live technical support using AOL IM, ICQ, or HumanClick.

Extra features that may be important to you are:

• SSL servers for secure over-the-Web transactions (you'll also need a digital certificate), shell (telnet or SSH) access to your account,
• access to raw logs and stats for figuring out who the visitors to your site are,
• streaming media support for letting your users listen to audio or watch video without having to fully download it,
• email accounts so your users can contact you@yourserver.com, mailing lists for creating an email community around your site,
• whether the host uses a static IP,
• the prices for additional transfer and space so you don't pay a fortune for going over your plan's limits,
• sub-domains for creating sub-sections to your site without having to use directories in URLs,
• control panel for graphical access to your account settings,
• anonymous FTP to allow users to download files through FTP,
• guaranteed uptime if you want a refund for times when your host is down (no host stays up 100% of the time),
• a money back guarantee.

Popular Web Hosting offers ad-free web hosting, domain names, free web site and email address services. Our affordable hosting makes Popularwebhosting the best place to host your small business website or personal web site. Our reliable ad-supported free web space services are also ideal for first-time webmasters. We are your web host for everything from web design, internet marketing tools, domain names, email addresses and powerful web hosting services.

A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to provide their own websites accessible via the world wide web. Web hosts are companies that provide space on a server they own for use by their clients as well as providing Internet connectivity, typically in a data center. Webhosts can also provide data center space and connectivity to the Internet for servers they do not own to be located in their data center, called colocation.

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