What is Web Hosting & Its Important Terminologies

In this blog, you will be answered for the questions like what is Web Hosting, why it is needed, what are Disk Space, Bandwidth and SSL.

Web Hosting                                

Web Hosting is a service that makes the organization and the individuals to make their website accessible on the internet. Web hosting can be done with web hosting providers like BlueHost, Hostingers. Web hosting provides storage for the file that make up your websites. Now you might get a question that why do I host a domain? It is, only hosting can make your websites accessible on the internet.

Usually the websites are hosted, or stored in a special computer called a server. When internet users want to view your websites, all they need to do is to simply enter your website address, or domain name in web browsers like Google Chrome, Opera. The computer will connect to your server and your webpages will be delivered to the users through the web browser.

How to host a website?

To host a website,

• choose a web hosting provider
• purchase a hosting plan
• upload your websites to the server
• link your domain to the hosting provider’s servers

Types of Web Hosting

There are many types of web hosting. The most popular types are:

• Shared Hosting
• VPS Hosting
• Dedicated hosting
• Cloud hosting

Shared hosting is where several websites shares the same server. It is like you’re  sharing your apartment with your roommates. Dedicated hosting is where you have a separate physical server. We can also make our own computer as a local host and host our websites.

 

Before buying a hosting, need to look disk space, bandwidth, SSL certificate

What is Disk Space?

Disk Space is the amount of storage capacity, the web hosting providers provide to store the files. The disk space you need depends on what type of website and content of the website. Most web hosts offer two types of storage like HDD(Hard Disk Drive) and SSD(Solid State Drive). HDD is the traditional type of drive but SSD is newer and faster than HDD and is expensive.

What is Bandwidth?

Bandwidth is the amount of data transferred at a particular time. You may confuse bandwidth with speed. Bandwidth and speed are different from each other. Speed is how fast the data is transferred and bandwidth is the amount of data shared from the server to the user. If you have files for 40 MB and 10 people visit the page, then it would consume 400 MB of Bandwidth.

Why is bandwidth important?

Bandwidth plays a major role in growing the audience of your site. Bandwidth makes your sites faster. If you don’t have enough bandwidth then you may get problems like the website won’t respond back to the user. It leads to poor performance and slow in loading the site. In other words, the less bandwidth you have, the slower your website load.

The efficiency of the website depends on the storage and the bandwidth. Web Hosting platform also provides email there you have your email for your website.

SSL certificate

SSL stands for Secure Socket Layer certificate. SSL certificates are offered by web hosting providers, is a security protocol that creates an encrypted link between the server and the browser and this is clearly explained in blog on What is Domain Name. This securely maintains the transaction and the user’s privacy.

In Summary, web hosting is the service that makes your website accessible on the internet. It provides space to store your files and web hosting platform usually provides storage, bandwidth, email, SSL certificate etc, Disk space is the storage capacity to store your files and bandwidth is the amount of data transferred at a particular time. And we know that SSL Certificate is a digital certificate that authenticates a website identity and enables encrypted connection.