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| When looking for the right web host you need to | | | | An Auto responder is a computer program that |
| think about what service you need. Are you an | | | | automatically answers e-mail sent to it. This is good if |
| experienced webmaster or a beginner? Those that | | | | you are going on holiday and don’t want to |
| are experienced will be able to understand all the | | | | ignore any e-mail sent while your away. You can set |
| different features on offer from the different | | | | the auto responder up very easily to send a |
| webhost companies. Beginners need to ensure that | | | | message to everyone who emails you saying |
| have a webhost that offer customer service where | | | | you’re on holiday and will be back on a |
| they can phone someone and speak to them | | | | curtain date. It is also good for marketing if you want |
| regarding any queries. | | | | every person that contacts you to receive some |
| Most webhosting companies that have phone support | | | | specific information. |
| are aware that most people that call are new to web | | | | If your hosting account comes with Control panel this |
| development so they are trained to deal with | | | | will be software installed for you the webmaster to |
| complete novices. They will be able to tell the | | | | handle common tasks associated with webhosting. In |
| experienced from the beginner in the way they ask | | | | this section you can change passwords, create email |
| questions and will be armed with the right wording to | | | | accounts, alter file permissions, monitor your |
| explain what you need to know. | | | | bandwidth, add auto responders, email |
| If you’re a beginner but want to know what | | | | forwarders’ and check you statistics. If you |
| all the features mean to different webhosting | | | | have a database you will be able to access it via the |
| packages then I shall try to explain them all to you in | | | | control panel |
| simple terms. | | | | A database is a collection of related information |
| Disk space or Web Space refers to how much actual | | | | stored in a computer in a systematic way. A |
| hard disk space you are allowed to occupy on your | | | | database typically has a "backend" which is controlled |
| hosting companies web servers. Generally you have | | | | by administrators via passwords. The "frontend" |
| more than enough allocated to you than you will | | | | displays the content to the final user. Some hosting |
| actually need. | | | | packages come with one or more databases and |
| Bandwidth refers to how much data transferring your | | | | SQL to query the data. |
| web hosting account allows to run through you | | | | MySQL stands for ‘structured query |
| website. So if you have a home page with is 25 KB | | | | language’ which is language used to talk to |
| and someone visits your page, this will count at 25 | | | | data stored in a database. If you have a database |
| KB of data being transferred which means you will | | | | full of stock and you want query the database to |
| have used up 25 KB of your | | | | find out how many specific items you have, you |
| ‘bandwidth’. Now if 10 people view | | | | would use SQL. For example, if your database stored |
| you webpage then you will have used up 250 KB of | | | | information about shoes, and you wanted to know |
| your ‘bandwidth’. 1 to 5 GB | | | | how many size 8 red shoes you have in stock, SQL |
| bandwidth is enough for new websites. If your sites | | | | would be the best way to query the data. It can be |
| starts to get hundreds of thousands of | | | | used with other languages such as PHP to generate |
| ‘hits’ to your site then you are | | | | dynamic web pages which depend heavily on storing |
| getting lots of traffic and might need to ask for | | | | deleting and updating data. |
| more bandwidth. | | | | Crontabs or also known as cron jobs are programs |
| An FTP account stands for file transfer protocol. You | | | | that runs on UNIX to run scheduled tasks. These |
| need an ftp account to log into and upload files. This | | | | tasks could be one time events or recurring tasks. |
| feature is standard for all paid web hosting accounts | | | | This is good if you want to run a script to update a |
| as you are buying this space so need an FTP account | | | | backup of your website. |
| to access it. You will need an FTP program like FTP | | | | .htaccess is a simple ASCII file similar to those |
| surfer, or CuteFTP which are free to download. Once | | | | created in Notepad which is files that allow you to |
| you have signed up with a web hosting company you | | | | override certain server configurations. Its main known |
| will be given a username and password which you will | | | | use is related to implementing custom error pages or |
| need to put into your FTP program to be able to | | | | password protected directories. |
| access and transfer your files. | | | | If you are offered web stats on your hosting |
| POP3 Email accounts allows you to create and setup | | | | account then you will be able to access different |
| emails accounts with the address being… | | | | statistics relating to your website. Depending on what |
| Some email accounts allow you to choose what alias | | | | type of web statistics program is installed will depend |
| you want, alias being a nickname that you can apply | | | | on what stats you get. The type of information you |
| to an email account. You could have one called or or | | | | will be able to see is: The number of unique visitors |
| you could use names like The amount of email boxes | | | | to your website each day, daily and monthly traffic, |
| you receive will depend on the hosting provider and | | | | your bandwidth used, what type of browsers and |
| what they offer. | | | | operating systems your visitors use, the search |
| E-mail Forwarders are where you can have a copy of | | | | engines people used to find you, the top keywords |
| any email you receive sent to another email account | | | | used, and much much more.. |