What is Web Hosting?

The Network is a great collection of Web sites, all provided with accomodations in computers (calls servants) around the world. Web hosting is the service by means of which You order to third parties the lodging to him of his site in a servant. Its site can contain archives HTML, graphs, pages codified in languages like php that allow the interaction with data bases, etc. Its site can be a virtual store, blog, a forum or simply contain text and photos.

Reaches of the Service

The reaches of the service of Web hosting vary much. Most basic it is the lodging of pages small Web and archives, where the archives can be loaded to the servant by means of File transfer protocol (FTP by its abbreviations in English) or an interface Web. A more complex site can require support of data bases and development platforms of applications (by ex. php, Java, ASP.NET). These services allow the client to install scripts for applications like forums and administrators of content (content management). For e-commerce, also SSL is required.

The Web hosting also can include a Control Panel (by ex. cPanel, Plesk) to administer the servant: to add dominions and subdominions, to create email accounts, to create data bases, to install scripts, etc.

Trustworthiness/Uptime

Uptime of the Web hosting talks about the percentage of time in which the servant is available from the Internet. More of a 99% it is considered good. It is necessary to consider that the servants can need restarts, besides programmed and not programmed mantención.

Types of Web Hosting

• Gratuitous Web hosting: it is free, sometimes supported by announcements and it owns less characteristics generally than a paid service.
• Web hosting shared: it is the most common service, a Web site is provided with accomodations along with many others in a same servant, having shared the resources of this: RAM, CPU.
• Web hosting for remarketers: hosting allows the clients to become Web suppliers.
• Dedicated servant Virtual: to divide a servant in several virtual servants, offering to each user characteristic similar to the one of a dedicated servant.
• Dedicated servant: the user receives his own Web server and control exceeds he. He can be administered or not be administered, in this last case the user has complete access to the administration of the servant, and must worry about the security and the correct configuration.
• Positioning: similar to the dedicated servant, but the user is the owner of the servant, whereas the company of hosting provides the physical space, electricity and connection to Internet.

HostAndes provides the following plans with Web hosting to people and companies of any country.

All our plans of Web hosting have the following characteristics: servants with Linux Red Hat and Apache web server, gratuitous guarantee of uptime of 99,9%, setup, support PHP 4 and 5 with Zend Optimizer, limitless number of data bases MySQL 4+, besides support of Monday to Sunday. Our center is the trustworthiness, uptime and service to the client.