CHAPTER WEB HOSTING

“ What is Web Hosting?

Explained for Beginners
ZOOM INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE
CHAPTER: WEB HOSTING
Instructor : Khaled Ismail Abdi
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WEB DESIGN COURSE
Instructor : Khaled Ismail Abdi
How Does Web Hosting Work?

 When you want to start a business in the real world, you need a physical location
to set up, store, and sell your products. The same rules apply in the digital world
when setting up a website.
 When you set up an online business, you have a series of files, images, and HTML
code that make up your website. These files take up space and need a place to
live. Without an online home, your files would just sit on your computer and no
one would ever see them. A hosting provider will provide a place on a web server
to store all of your files and are responsible for delivering the files of your website
as soon as a browser makes a request by typing in your domain name.
 When you pay for hosting services, you are simply renting storage space on the
internet — just like you would rent a physical store for your business.
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 What is a Domain Name?

 Before we go into more depth of Hosting, let’s talk about domain names. When you first
thought about starting an online business, you purchased a domain name. A domain name is
your company’s address on the internet.
 if you are renting space at a physical location for your business, you give customers your street
address so they can find you. If you are renting space on the internet, you give customers your
domain name.
 Whenever someone types in your domain name, it is converted into an IP address. Then
hosting company then locates all the files connected to your IP address and returns all of the
pictures, videos, and words that make up your website.
 Just like every street address is unique, so is every domain name. Whenever you start a new
website, you get the opportunity to choose a name that perfectly reflects your brand.

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 How to Choose a Hosting Provider

 When selecting a provider it is important to consider the different types of hosting services
that are offered. Here are a few things to consider when determining where you would like to
host your site.
• What type of website are you building? eCommerce, blog, portfolio, etc.
• Based on the type website, what is the bandwidth needed to run your site
• Can you create email addresses for your domain?
• What type of hosting options are available?
• Do they provide SSL Certificates?
 After choosing a hosting provider, completing your domain registration is easy! Often times
your web host can also be your domain registrar.

Instructor : Khaled Ismail Abdi

 Types of Web Hosting

 If you are looking to host a website for your small business, Bluehost is a web hosting
provider that offers a variety of hosting services to suit your needs. Once you have
chosen your provider, you will need to create a hosting account and determine what
type of hosting will work best for your site.

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 Shared Hosting

 Shared hosting is the most common type of web hosting and is suitable for most
online business owners. With shared hosting, several customers share storage space
on one powerful server. There are several advantages to shared hosting including:
• Affordability — It’s much cheaper to share the space on a server than to rent the
entire machine.
• Ease of use — Your server is preconfigured, well-organized, easy to use, and your
hosting company does all the maintenance and security updates for you

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 Dedicated Hosting

 Rather than sharing space, you get a server all to yourself if you choose a dedicated
hosting package. Advantages to dedicated hosting include:
• Customization — You can customize the software and hardware to meet your
individual needs
• Unlimited Resources — Since you don’t share the server with anyone, all the storage
space is yours.
• Full control — You can configure the setup however you’d like.

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 VPS Hosting

 Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting includes all the features of a dedicated server, but
at the price point of a shared server. Here are some of the top reasons VPS
hosting might be a great fit:
• Functionality — VPS hosting is built on a cPanel and supports easy navigation with
several intuitive tools.
• One-click features — You have access to one-click installs of WordPress, Magento, and
Drupal.

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 Cloud Hosting

 Cloud hosting is often considered the most reliable of all of the services. Rather than
relying on disk space of a single server, it pulls its power from several resources,
making sure you never have any downtime. Other benefits include:
• Scalability — You can add to your cloud space at any time.
• Unmetered bandwidth — You don’t have to worry about your site going down due to
a server failure.

Instructor : Khaled Ismail Abdi

 Summery Hosting and Domain

 Hosting is the place, where your webste’s files are

stored.
 Domain is the name of your website.

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 The End

Thank you for Listening

Instructor : Khaled Ismail Abdi