What is Web Hosting?

Web hosting (in layman’s terms) is the service of providing storage space for a website or application on a server on the internet. Once your website is made available on the internet, it can be accessed by other computers connected to the internet.

How does Web Hosting work?

Web hosts are companies that rent out their services and technologies to host websites on the internet. Once the hosting company hosts your website, users can access it by typing in your web address (domain name) in their web browser. When they do this, their computer connects to the server your website is hosted on. The server in turn serves (sends the files you have stored on the storage to display) the website to your web visitor in their web browser.

What kind of web hosting plan do I need?

There are several web hosting options available. To know which one would be right for your business, ask yourself the following questions:
What kind of website do you plan to host online- a blog, an eCommerce portal, a news website, etc as this will determine how much web traffic you expect and how robust the infrastructure required to host your website, should be.

• What are the goals of your website?
• How fast do you see yourself expanding online business?
• How much hand-holding do you need?

Purchased a hosting plan, now what do I do?

Depending on what your plans are, whether it is running your company website or your personal blog, you can login to your control panel and either upload your website, or using our application installer you can install WordPress and run your blog. You can also create your professional @domain.com email addresses from there.