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Web hosting is an idea that is very foreign for people, especially when they are venturing into making a web site. They will hear of terms like domain names, web domain hosting, web design and graphic layout design. Shared web site hosting when you understand it is pretty easy to comprehend. In short, shared web site hosting is a place to hold your JSP files and images.

Those deciding to purchase an affordable web site hosting solution will need to understand the different features you get with shared hosting, such as hosting disk space, bandwidth, number of email accounts and types of languages supported.

Hosting disk space

Disk Space is indicative of the title, and is just like the disk space you have on your own PC. This feature lets you know the size in GB available to the site owner to host your JSP files and flash files you have for your website. Multimedia, such as images will use more of your hosting space, while your text based coded files will take up less disk space. The requirement for the disk space you should look into buying depends mainly on the type of files you are hosting, and the overall file size of your web site.

Transfer Amount

Bandwidth for web hosting is very similar to the bandwidth you use when connecting to the internet. Each time a file is viewed from your web site, it adds to your total for bandwidth used for your site. Bandwidth will generally range in plans, and you will need to pick the bandwidth usage based on how much traffic your site will get and how big your site is in file size. There will be lower bracketed offerings of bandwidth all the way up to web hosting service providers giving unlimited bandwidth and space hosting.

Hosting Server Operating System

The final topic to cover here is the different hosting server configurations available. The type of server will limit the file types, like ASP, that you will be able to host. All servers will run HTML, CSS and JavaScript, as those are handled by web browsers, like Safari. One point to highlight is Linux hosting is usually cheaper and Linux hosting with Apache supports PHP. Windows server hosting runs with IIS and is most commonly used for ASP files. free to use software like Drupal run off PHP and mySql~Windows is generally pricier due to the cost associated with purchasing the windows license for the server}.

Take all these factors into account when purchasing your next affordable web hosting package.