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ADVANTAGES OF WEB-HOSTING
By admin | October 10, 2007
As discussed in the previous blog there can be numerous uses of web hosting -
- As it is outsourced, the physical location of the web server is not the consumer’s premises. This means that, the responsibility for maintaining a web site infrastructure effectively transfers from the customer to an organization that is more competent to do so.
- Many individuals and small businesses take advantage of web hosts in order to free themselves from pre-occupying their scarce human and financial resources on web hosting issues.
- It helps in reducing and controlling operating costs, allowing them to improve focus on their own company while gaining access to in-depth expertise. It also frees internal resources for core competencies and provides access to world-class capabilities to control IT functions which are difficult to manage.
- The best web hosting services will provide relatively seamless access to IT functions that will allow a company or consumer to self-publish his/her web site.
Summing up what I’ve been talking about in the previous blogs … here’s a walkthrough:-
1. The main objective of web Hosting is to give customers an opportunity to place their website on the web for 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
2. Web hosting is in essence a subscription service i.e. monthly or yearly subscriptions are charged for the services.
3. The specific computer on which a customer’s website is hosted is called a web server.
4. A web server typically hosts many websites. Generally there are many websites on one web server to produce economies of scale which enable a customer to get affordable web hosting.
However, like everything else, not all web hosting companies are created equal. So I have put together a few points in the next blogs which you can consider while selecting the best web-host for your web-site.
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