Web Server And Web Hosting Services

Web hosting providers provide the following basic services for web servers - anything else can be considered complementary to the roles of theory, but in practice are essential to run a successful business or Internet website business.

A Web hosting provider should provide the following functionality to the Web server:

1. Hard disk space.

This is what they really are hiring, for all practical purposes. You need hard disk space on a web server to host your site. A website is actually composed of a large number of files, such as MSWord documents or Excel spreadsheets. These files take up space on your hard disk. The web hosting provider gives you space for people around the world with Internet access can access the files on that web server.

The price or the hard drives have dropped dramatically in the last year or so, and it is not unknown for a hosting provider to provide packages of up to 2,000 megabytes 250Megabytes and more.

How much do you need?
The average website that uses only HTML pages require about 5 MB to 10 MB of space. If you use a dynamic web site, where some of their data are stored in a MySQL database, the database requires the use of a space. These types of sites require more space and anything between 100 MB and 250 MB should be sufficient.

If you are going to store e-mails on your server, you have to add in these calculations. E-mail messages can take up a lot of web space very quickly if the people you send large files. You will have to monitor the space taken by e-mail very carefully and I've seen mailboxes go to 50 or 60 MBs very quickly.

If you want to host video or audio files on your server, which will provide much more disk space. An audio file can easily take up 30 to 40MB.

2. Bandwidth

Bandwidth depends on the traffic. All users who visit its site to consume bandwidth and what they are going to use when opening the pages of your site. Again, if you have video and audio files on your site that require more bandwidth. A good rule is to have an allocation of around 100 KB (kilobytes) for each visitor. This means that more than 500 visitors per month consumed about 50 MB of bandwidth - though this is only true for half page with most text and some pictures. If you have large image galleries, audio and / or video files and should not work at 150KB per visitor, or even more. Spiders search engines also consume bandwidth! You must control your bandwidth usage through your control panel CPanel or statistics from your website and be sure to communicate well in advance with your hosting provider if you need to buy more bandwidth to avoid penalties and / or lockout.

3. Access to your site

Under this you can have access to a control panel like cPanel, Plesk and Helm, who will help you create emails, subdomains, software installations and MySQL database if you are running the dynamic functionality shopping carts, forums, etc. Content Management Systems

You also will need FTP access to upload files to your Web server. Without being able to use FTP will not be able to keep the contents of your site (unless you make use of a Content Management System). FTP access is still needed, even then, as it would certainly have the opportunity of having to upload files such as images, audio, video and other files to your server.