Web Hosting Features Introduction

Here are some of the features that are explained so that you can understand how exactly they are capable of helping in hosting your website.

1. Disk Space or Web Space: This space is in context with the volume of disk storage provided by the web site hosting service to store a website on the web hosting company’s server. It can range anywhere from one GB to 10GB; this means that if each web page is about thirty KB and it is possible to store approximately three thousand static web pages on 1GB disk space.

2.Data Transfer or Bandwidth: This is the total figures of data permited to be transferred from a web site each month, or is better said by using the word ‘monthly web traffic.’ That means that the more people visiting a web site, the more the bandwidth needed.

3.Protected folder: This is an very important feature for web sites, using a PIN web owner can block access to folds or webpages of a site. Only visitor that have a login ID can visitor the restricted areas. For the purpose to enable the PIN protection web masters should create and modify the ".htaccess" and ".htpasswd" files, though majority of the web hosting services such as Yahoo Hosting have a Control Panel to do this.

4.Email functions: When purchase a webhosting account, the services providers also give email address. It could be anything from twenty to ‘n’ in number. The privilege of such accounts is that they have it in sync with the website address as the forward address,

5. FTP: File Transfer Protocol, these accounts are used to upload the websites that have been created on the computer. Web host providers support multiple FTP accounts, incase multiple users are needed to upload web pages on the server. Most of the times, one FTP login is not enough, this is why you are given with more than one accounts. Of course FTP is not the only way of uploading files to the web server, programs like FrontPage Extension help in uploading directly.