Website Hosting

Website Hosting is crucial to every single website on the planet, but unfortunately it is often misunderstood or neglected altogether. You could spend a small fortune on a website designer or web design company and end up with a beautiful, professional website design, but if it takes to long to load then it’s not only unlikely that visitors will hang around to see your beautiful web design, but the chances of them becoming your customer drops, and no website wants that.

What’s Web Hosting?

Every website is physically stored on a computer (a Web Server), this is connected to the Internet, and can be accessed by any other Internet enabled computer. storing your website on a web server is called web hosting, the person or web design company that provides this service is called a web host, your web hosting decides how fast your web design will load and the amount of visitors that can view it simultaneously, this is why choosing a professional and reliable web host is so important.

The web hosting for your website depends on the type of website you have, and web hosting services variety is as great as the variety of types of websites, website designs, web designers and web design company, it is essential that you are aware of the different web hosting packages and web hosting types available and what package suits your needs best.

Most web designers and website design companies offer web hosting as part of your website design package. Whilst your website design is the being developed, your website designer could host your website on their own server for testing purposes. this is called a testing, development, or staging server.

When your web design company had completed your website design, your website design company will move it to its life long home, a production server. Website designers may use these industry words so it is useful to know and understand them. Once you have approved the work it can then be made ‘live’ by putting it on the production server.