The world wide web (W3) is a vast frontier for those within whom the web-preneurial spirit burns brightly. To open a brick and mortar business on Main Street is going to cost a pile of capital, and in this economy, who wants a second (or third) mortgage to roll the dice and fund a new gift shop downtown.

A quality host employs numerous layers of security to protect your digital assets hardwired firewalls algorithmically encrypted anti-spyware and anti-virus software caged servers locked server rooms and back-up Interserver power generation.
 

 

Disk space or storage or web space is the amount of data or files you can store on the hard disk of the web server. Some web hosting offer 10 GB and some 100+ GB to store your files. Choosing web host plan that allowed 1 GB storage is more than enough if you just start having a blog. Traffic/transfer is the allowed amount of data transfer (upload and download) per month. If your website have 1000 visitors per month and in average they see 10 pages of your site and let's say a page about 60KB in size, than the traffic would be 1000x10x60KB that's 600MB traffic per month. Ten times this number would be adequate for you to start a blog with no worried about bandwidth.

Hopefully you have understood how silly the comparison of Windows vs. Linux web hosting service is! Both the hosting service come with their unique and better features. It is totally at the discretion of the clients and expertise of the service provider to make any hosting service look and perform best. Simply if you do not have much money in your hand and want to start up with simple site and hope to take it to complex and high level, Linux is your best choice.

If your allotted usage of Bandwidth is exceeded in any given month you will usually be charged extra by your hosting company. A good way to monitor your usage is by using the web stats program in your cPanel admin.

 

 

The web site identifies the hosts "brand" - its corporate culture. Some use funny logos and radical website type fonts, targeting a "younger" demographic. Other hosts have a more professional appearance and take the time to explain its corporate values, i.e. commitment to client satisfaction, tech support, fair prices and good value. If you're serious about your web site, go with a host that is serious about hosting.

You may have been thinking about creating a website but you're just not sure where to begin. Hopefully now that you understand a little bit more about the Internet, the World Wide Web and how web hosting companies use servers to put sites on the web, you'll be equipped to find the perfect web hosting company for you. You have many choices when it comes to learning about the web and how to put your site on it, choose wisely and I'll see you on the web!