What is a Web Hosting Company? Flashcards
1
Q
web hosting company
A
- service that allows people to post websites
2
Q
hosting services provide
A
- special equipment
- support
- technology most people don’t have like: expensive servers, networking equipment, dedicated network access
3
Q
free
A
- convenient at start
- limited quality
- you get what you pay for
4
Q
shared - low cost
A
- most common
- low-cost - a few $$$ a month
- shares resources between websites
5
Q
dedicated - higher cost
A
- dedicated, personalized service
- reserved for large businesses
6
Q
kinds of services provided by hosting service
A
- disk space for files: HTML and images
- email accounts
- file transfer software (FTP; file transfer protocols)
- transfer files from computer to hosting service
- management software
- reliable internet
- economy
