What is web hosting?
Sites In A Click not only helps you build a professional website, but we provide hosting services as well. What this means to you is we provide the infrastructure required to make your website available to your customers and potential customers. This includes the hardware, software and communications lines required by a web server. The content (your web page) on the server is controlled by you. It’s like renting space on a billboard. The billboard company provides you with the billboard for a fee and you provide the information that goes on the billboard.
For a website to be made available on the Internet, it has to be ‘hosted’ on a web server. Web hosting provides a home to your website on a web server to establish your presence on the Internet. Each website has its secure web space as well as its own unique Internet address and email accounts. The unique address is called a domain name such as www.yourname.com.
Web hosting is the service provided by an ISP (web host) to publish your web pages on the internet. In order for your web pages to be visible on the internet, a web server (hardware and software) must be permanently connected to the internet so that it can send pages to people who request them. In it’s simplest form (sending HTML pages when requested), hosting is neither complicated nor expensive, but the trend is to build more sophisticated web sites with dynamic (automatically changing) content. Dynamic content sites are made possible by web servers able to execute scripting computer languages such as ASP, ASP.NET, PHP or PERL. In most cases scripting languages also require access to some form of database to retrieve and store information like catalogue items, user names and passwords and so on. The role of your ISP is to maintain the web server, keep it secure (protect your site from malicious damage or viruses), keep it online on the internet, and to provide you with technical supp
