Web Hosting

Very often you can see the ads: 'professional hosting free' or 'cheap professional hosting of n dollars. " A lot of people do not even realize that is the meaning of 'hosting'. Hosting - this is allocated on the server in the section a directory that stores all the information website - html-documents, graphics, video clips, scripts and more. Hosting is paid and free. With paid hosting is more or less clear - you pay money for the use of disk space. Free hosting usually lives at the expense of advertising, which will offer you place on your site. This can be banners, text links, advertising frames, pop-ups. Sometimes there are such free hosting that does not place any advertising at all.

Now let's talk about what parameters are different for hosting. Since advertising is clear - to free her or have or not to pay - no. Naturally better use hosting without ads, but also a hosting service to choose is not easy. Next, sometimes important, criterion - the number of allocated disk space - free hosting for it usually does not exceed 20-50 MB, despite the fact that are not usually allowed to keep the choicest files like mp3, video, software mnogovesyaschego, on some servers is a direct restriction, such as maximum file size is 2.5 megabytes you download will not give or robot automatically delete after a while. In a paid hosting scatter is greater, the foreign hosting companies can offer, and 500 meters in only 7 USD per month, Russian hosters are not as generous, with the lion's share in general only subhostery, that is reselling services of foreign companies.

Buy web hosting provider for direct, without intermediaries, naturally better. If the choice is between our foreign and host, then you need to ask, first of all Two questions - what the audience will be at your site - the whole world or most of Russia and the CIS, and Russian is important whether you support. Further, among the selection criteria are additional features such as its own cgi-bin directory where you can run your scripts, supports PHP, SSI, databases, MySQL, MSSQL, and others. Advanced hosters besides the traditional Perl support Python and C. Without such services can not do an interactive site with a guestbook, a forum, search and other useful features done. Equally important is the way to download the information, which provides Web hosting. All paid hosting support FTP (the most convenient way), and free download and can support connections to WWW, but it is designed to beginners and not so preferable, though if only upload to WWW, then you obviously do not see any cgi-bin, or databases. Another important value is customer service, which ideally should be operational within a few hours after request to answer your questions and give advice, fix bugs, and to settle other little things that occur during the use of servers. To test the support you can write a letter to the issues before Payment hosting, if you have not answered, then maybe you will not respond and after the purchase of hosting. Although there is a pretty big companies the priority of their clients, that is just curious fellow, like you, give a response only after a sort out with their customers. In general, when choosing a hosting no-one scheme, but the essence is that before you give money, you need to find out how much you get for them, must check with the other users who use the services of the host.