So what can a web hosting provider, provide? In this article will look at few basic common features that all web hosting providers have. There are some concepts that are crucial for you to understand Windows or Linux Hosting? This is the hosting provider server's operating system. Microsoft Windows is perhaps the most well known but there are other operating systems, like Mac OS, Linux, Sun's Solaris, etc. The most popular choices for hosting servers are: Linux/Unix with Apache as web server and Windows and its IIS service (Internet Information Server). There is some debate as to which system is the best.
When choosing a server type you need to consider what programming languages that you or your programming team will be using to build the site. Both Windows and Linux servers work with the basic programming languages like HTML, CSS, JavaScript. ASPx, MSSQL are a language and database server used in Windows environments, while PHP and MySQL are mainly used on Linux based hosting servers.
Price, disk space and bandwidth are the crucial elements of a web hosting provider. That's why all the "short versions" of the hosting offers that you might find will advertise this trio: price per month / storage space / bandwidth.
Disk space is the amount of your allocated space on the web hosting server. If you are sharing hosting, you have a set amount, and in the case of collocated or dedicated hosting; you are limited by the size of your installed hard drives. Typically web pages are very small, so you can usually store a lot of web pages in a small amount of disk space. Disk space is calculated in bytes, as the disk space on your computer at home. 1 Gigabyte (GB) = 1.000 Megabytes (MB) = 1.000.000 Kilobytes (KB). When people visit your website, what they are doing is downloading the web pages and images via their web browsers. When you are copying or updating files on your website account, you are uploading data on the server.
Bandwidth measures all this activity, which means bandwidth is related to disk space, because it measures the number of bytes transferred by a visitor when he accesses the site's files. A website that has a lot of pages and images will "consume" more bandwidth for the same amount of visitors (assuming the visitors will browse more than the first page) than a website that has less pages or the pages are mainly text.
The web hosting provider will usually charge bandwidth on a monthly basis and it is calculated in MB or GB. There are web hosts that offer unlimited bandwidth. Bandwidth and disk space cost money, so it's not possible or at least not economically feasible to offer one of them or both in unlimited amounts. So, why are there offers with unlimited bandwidth? The hosting company is counting on its traffic statistics; around 90% of the websites don't use a great deal of bandwidth (less than 2-3 GB per month) so, on average, the "low bandwidth" sites will compensates for a few "high bandwidth" web sites.
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