| What is web hosting? Whenever you visit a website, | | | | iPowerWeb is a popular web hosting company that |
| what you see on your web browser is essentially | | | | hosts more than 300,000 websites. For that reason, |
| just a web page that is downloaded from the web | | | | a web hosting company need many web servers |
| server onto your web browser. In general, a web | | | | (essentially, these are computers) to 'store' the |
| site is made up of many web pages. And a web | | | | website. And all these web servers are connected to |
| page is basically composed of texts and graphic | | | | the Internet through high speed Internet connection |
| images. All these web pages need to be stored on | | | | and housed in a physical building called 'data center'. In |
| the web servers so that online users can visit your | | | | order to guarantee all the web servers are safe, |
| website. | | | | secure and fully operational all time, a data center is a |
| Therefore, if you plan to own a new website, you | | | | physically secure 24/7 environment with fire |
| will need to host your website on a web server. | | | | protection, HVAC temperature control, virus |
| When your website goes live on the web server, | | | | detections, computer data backup, redundant power |
| online users can then browse your website on the | | | | backup and complete disaster recovery capabilities. |
| Internet. Company that provides the web servers to | | | | What are the different types of web hosting? There |
| host your website is called web hosting providers. | | | | are different kinds of web hosting companies out |
| A well-established web hosting provider sometimes | | | | there with different characteristics. |
| hosts up to thousands of websites. For example, | | | | |