Hosting

What is Hosting

Basics hosting is the home of your website ,if you're on a website you'll need somewhere to host it . There are different types of hosting service :

Shared hosting ,reseller hosting ,virtual private servers or VPS and dedicated servers .

I ll talk just about shared hosting because that's the most popular and affordable type of hosting ,so hosting is basically the computer and network infrastructure that keeps your website available across the internet ,it also provides other key services like email for you .

So how does it all work ???

It all starts with a server which is basically a powerful computer which is stored in a highly secure data center ,the data center provides the network and power connectivity with temperature control backup systems fire suppression and high levels of physical security ,security is also important at the server level so the servers are actually built with dual components for critical components things like hard drives and power supply units and the reason for this is to make sure that your website is available at all times so when you order a hosting service what you're actually purchasing is the physical disk space on the server as well as the network connection for the server .

When you actually publish your website files ,in order to manage your web hosting you'll need access to a control panel : setting up email addresses ,managing domains and forwarding managing databases .

If if you're with one hosting company and you want to transfer to another hosting company , this is a process called migration , basically your files are copied from your current hosting to your new hosting service there are just a couple of small changes that need to be made to your domains and name server settings for that process to be fully completed .

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