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Website design marketing and hosting in Telford Shropshire
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Web Hosting
Website hosting is often miss understood and mistaken to be the same thing as a domain registration
Hosting is another vital part of your website, if you liken your domain name to your telephone number, your hosting can be thought of as your office. When someone rings your number (types your web address) they get through to your office. Hosting is where your website files reside, they sit on the hard disk of a hosting computer that is permanently connected to the internet.
When your web address (URL) is typed into a browser the hosting computer gets a request to serve the page. It could be asked to do this at any moment and has to be ready to respond, therefore it can’t be switched off, it has to be secure and the hosting provider has to have a back up plan for when it crashes. A good provider will have daily back ups, fast connections to the internet back bone and a good website statistics package.
As with most things there are different prices for the different levels of service required, a simple site doesn’t need database interactivity and therefore is cheaper than an ecommerce package.
