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=Description= Web hosting is a service companies offers to other companies or individuals. They provide space on a server they own and they also offer internet connectivity. Like this your site can be viewd world wide. =Classification= At web hosting services you might find the: ==File hosting service== – at clears as it sounds, hosts files, not web pages. {| class='wikitable' |- [[Image:Stefania.B/file_sharing.jpg]] |Usually you can upload files with web interface or FTP access. The aimed customers are the individuals and the companies offer personal backup, file access or file distribution. Users can make their files public or they can protect them with passwords. Usually they offer space on per-gigabyte basis but sometime they offer it for free, relaying on advertising revenue. |} ==Image hosting services== – Intended for images upload to an internet website. {| class='wikitable' |- |[[Image:Stefania.B/image_hosing.jpg]] |Usually from a specify location you update your image file (one image at a time) but sometimes you can specify multiple files at once, in this form, or you can upload one ZIP file containing multiple images. Also some hosts allow FTP access where you can upload single and multiple files. Watch out: by updating them on the web it will make them public and anyone can see them. Sometimes the image host will put restrictions on the maximum image size allowed and on the bandwidth allowed per user. The paid services, of course, offer less restricted sizes. Most of them are free and they are supported by advertisement. |} ==Video Hosting services== {| class='wikitable' |- |[[Image:Stefania.B/youtube.jpg]] |As the market for camera phones grew the traditional personal video sharing – as DVD or CD burning and shared to friends – was unsuitable for the low resolutions of their clips. Like this it was an urgent need of a server to host videos so you can share with friends. As most people don’t own a server the companies started to offers services like that. YouTube is the clearest example here. |} ==Blog Hosting Services== {| class='wikitable' |- |[[Image:Stefania.B/blog2.jpg]] |Lately, anyone has a[http://www.iterating.com/productclasses/Blogs blog], and we do need hosting for that. Check out a [http://www.iterating.com/productclasses/Blogs list with hosted and downloadable blogs] on our site |} =Features= The most basic scope is the webpage where files can be uploaded with FTP – file transfer protocol or a web interface. You can also use it only for your personal use as they offer packages – personal web pages. These personal web pages may vary: they can have a single page or they can have a database with GB of data. Usually they contain images, text and a collection of hiperlinks, biographical information, resumes and blogs. If you want to built a more complex site you might need database support, application development platforms – PHP, Java, Ruby on Rails, ASP.NET. With these features you will be able to install scripts on your site for applications – forums, content management, e-commerce, SSL. You might also look for control for managing the web server and installing scripts and also for email services. =How to Choose= In order to get the web hosting plan that suits you from the perfect company you first have to study your own company to see what you need. See if you need a database server software, and what kind, what kind of scripting software and of course operating system. Most of the plans offer Linux web hosting because is cheaper and offers a wide range of different software. As a Linux customer you might find: Apache, MySQl, PHP, Perl, Python As a Windows customer you might find also PHP, Perl, Python but also ASP.NET or classic ASP. You might also look for web content management system so you won’t have to worry about the more technical aspects. =Top Competitors= * [http://www.iterating.com/products/Go_Daddy_Web_Hosting_Economy_Plan Go Daddy ] * [http://www.iterating.com/products/Yahoo_Web_Hosting Yahoo Web Hosting] * [http://www.iterating.com/products/ix_Web_Hosting_Unlimited_Pro Ix web hosting] * [http://www.iterating.com/products/BlueHost Bluehost] * [http://www.iterating.com/products/Lunarpages_Basic_Hosting_Plan Lunarpages] =Features explained= If you are a newbie you might question yourself what is the use of each feature company’s offer. ==Key Features== * Disk Space – the amount of disk storage granted to you to store your website on the web server. * Bandwidth – the amount allowable data transfer per month on a website. The higher is the number of your visitors to the site the higher the data is transferred from the web server. * Password protected Directory – with it general web users won’t have the access to some directories (the ones you select) unless they have an assigned user ID and password. ==Server-Side Functionality== – these are applications that are executed or performed on the web server. These technologies imply CGI scripts, ASP, JSP, PHP and SSI which you can execute on the server and then will generate HTML contents dynamically. * CGI-Scripts – CGI stands out for Common Gateway Interface. You can use it to process survey forms, counter, guest books, feedback and more and the programming language used is: C, C++, Perl. * JSP – stand out for Java Server Pages. It’s created by Sun Microsystems and works like this: when a server that includes a JSP engine intersect with a web page with .jsp extensions, it translates the web page into Java servlet so the client is viewing the page as an HTML file. * ASP – stands out for Active Server Page. The purpose is similar to JSP and CGI but here you can combine HTML pages with script commands and COM components and like this you can create interactive web server applications. [[Image:Stefania.B/php_ogo.jpg]] * PHP – PHP Hypertext Preprocessor is an open source scripting language which if is used with HTML it can create dynamic content. * SSI – stand out for server sides includes and it’s a group of comment tags which can be placed directly on HTML pages. ==FTP Features== – stand out for File Transfer Protocol * FTP accounts – when your website is created, is created on your PC. After that, when you want to upload it on your web server you use FTP. You need multiple FTP accounts only if more than one person is managing your web site. Also FTP is not the only way you can upload data to your web server: you can use Microsoft FrontPage. * Anonymous FTP – make a world wide access to download and upload files. Like this your visitors can upload or download without needing a password and due to security you may not find this feature often. ==Email Features== * Email accounts – will be provided to your domain name ( user@yourwebsite.com ) and it usually supports POP3 access which you can download directly to your Microsoft Outlook or Eudora. If you don’t want to do that you can access it through the internet as they have web based email feature. * Email Forwarding/Alias – when you have numerous email addresses and don’t have the necessary time to check them all you can use this feature to forward all you incoming emails to a single email address. * Autoresponders – is a special email address which will send an automated response to the address that it receives email and this original incoming message is forwarded to another specified email address. * Mailing List – As a customer agrees to obtain information about your company, new or newsletters it will be added to the mailing list. This feature can be used to send as many messages as you want to all your customers; you can set it up for a fix interval or do whatever you want. * Spam Filtering – with the numerous spams we all receive these days some companies offer this feature to give you more time to spend on your company that deleting spam emails. ==Platform/Softwares== * Server Platform – The most popular are UNIX and Microsoft Windows platforms. The difference is the price as Windows is more expensive because it runs on Intel-based processor. * Control Panels – help you to manage your web account details with which you can create and protect specific directories, manage subdomains, create and delete email accounts, access site statistics, access and configure log files and add numerous optional functions into your site. The popular ones for UNIX platform are: Plesk, CPanel, Ensim, DirectAdmin and for Windows: Helm. * Website statistics – the feature fallows each step a visitor makes when searching on your site. This information is very large and it need analysis tool and the packages used are :Webalizer, AWstats, FastStats, HiList, WebTrends. ==MySQL features== [[Image:Stefania.B/mysql.jpg]] * MySQL – is an open source database fast and easy to customize help to its architecture. * phpMyAdmin – is administrated your MySQL database and is written in PHP. ==Domain Features== * Subdomain – is a domain part of a larger domain name. * Domain Redirection – (or domain pointer) is used to redirect users: so when a user types a URL it will be redirected on another URL. ==e-Commerce Features== * Shared SSL – stands out for Secure Sockets Layer which is used to secure server to browser transactions. * Shopping Cart – it allows you to implement an online shopping store. You can create with it a virtual shopping cart and allow users to add or remove products form their cart. =Commnunities= [http://www.iterating.com/productclasses/Web_Hosting/forum See our discussion board. ]

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