Web Design and Web Development need to be followed up with Web Hosting. Once a website is designed and developed, it is required to be hosted in the world wide web (www.) so that it could be viewed the world over. On behalf of our client we, Web Design Sri Lanka of Enterprise Systems (Pvt.) Ltd., Moratuwa select a suitable web host, have the website hosted, provide the control panel inclusive of the database together with web e-mail facilities and maintain the website.

What is a Web Host?

Web Host is a volume of space rented in an ultra powerful computer called server that features an array of exceedingly high storage and high performance hard disks. These computers called Web Servers are placed in special locations called the "data centers". It is from the Web Servers located in the data centers that Web Spaces for the Web Sites are rented.

Renting a volume of space on a server is to set up house on the internet for your website. Your website hosted in a web server is reached by the potential web surfers/website readers/potential clients/clients the world over by means of the website address also called domain name.We will do your do Domain Registration too.

How do I choose a web host for my web site?

If your web site is already designed and developed you may send the content by email in ZIP mode to our office and then we can discuss about your expectations and make a decision on a web hosting package. We can even provide you with a trial hosting for a fortnight to assist your further, if required. We will assist you in selecting suitable Web Hosting Package at economical rates. The rates differ with the web hosting platforms.

What is a Web Hosting platform?

Every Personal Computer the world over, require an operating system (eg. Windows XP, Windows7 or Windows 2008) installed to have it in operation. So are Super Computers and Mainframe Computers. Similarly Web Servers too need to have an operating system installed. In the early days of the internet and World Wide Web, Unix platform was the kingpin of server platforms: very powerful system that was also flexible. However the administration of Unix platform called for a considerable amount of technical skill. Though Unix platform is still a popular choice, Linux and Windows have come to the front. The other main operating system for servers is ColdFusion. Also available are Macintosh and NetWare-based Web servers.

These operating systems called Web Hosting Platforms stores critical files, gives basic commands, tells the server how to interact with applications.

What are the most popular Web Hosting Platforms?

According to Netcraft, a company that keeps statistics on the leading web servers and the platforms on the Internet, the most popular platforms and Web Servers are: Unix and Linux running Apache web server (60.17%)
Windows NT/2000 running Internet Information Server (Microsoft IIS) (30.78%)
Windows and Unix/Linux are supported by most of the web hosting providers and we do offer the best options in Linux/Unix and Windows: Economical non-clustered [Linux only]
Business class clustered Hosting Solutions [Linux/Unix as well as Windows]
VPS Hosting.

What are Apache and Internet Information Server (Microsoft IIS)?

In addition to the operating system, the Web Server is also endowed with special software that render web pages on the internet known as Web Server software. The most widely utlized Web Server software are Apache for all platforms (Windows, Linux and Unix) and Internet Information Services (IIS) for Windows.

How do I choose between Business class clustered Hosting Solutions [Linux as well as Windows] and Economical non-clustered [Linux only] hosting solutions?

If you aren’t a web developer, you wouldn’t be familiar with the terms of HTML and CSS, CGI scripts, JSP, ASP, NET SSI or PHP, MySQL, Access, MS SQL etc. As such tell us about your immediate requirements (eg. shopping cart), your expectations (eg. updating and maintenance), your future plans (eg. blogs, forums) on your on-line business so that we could assist you in deciding between Linux and Windows.

What do I get together with Web Hosting Package?

All Web Hosting Companies in all their paid Web Hosting packages provide following utility options.
(a) The owner (our client) of the web site will have access to a user friendly admin control panel or similar tools of the website
(b) The owner of the web site will have the provision to upload files, modify /remove web pages, add database, check web statistic etc.
(c) The owner of the web site will have facility to create domain name specific e-mails accounts.

Is the website accessible all over the world at all times?

Yes. The indispensable requirement in web hosting is the existence of the website presence of your website at all times, round the clock, day after day: online - 24/7/365. The on-line uptime of the websites hosted by means of our establishment is 99.9%, the highest possible level the world over.

What Kind of Web Hosting Services Do You Need?

The websites differ from one another in terms of internal factors and external factors. Internal factors are those involved in the development stage: layout; functions; content. External factors are those involved in the hosting stages: web space; web hosting features; web site speed; web security; web site reliability. The control and reliability of the external factors, i.e., web space; Web Hosting features; web site speed; web security; web site reliability are at slight variance from one type of hosting to the other.
The Web Hosting servers that provide the storage for your website's content can be categorized as Free Web Hosting, Shared Web Hosting, VPS Web Hosting and Dedicated Web Hosting.

Free Web Hosting: bloggers and assorted entities with no commercial inclinations
Free Web Hosting is poor in reliability and performance: free Web Hosting restricts free hosting space, bandwidth and other features. Furthermore the customer support doesn’t exist. Worse still, pop ups, banner ads and text ads clutter the content of the website. As such Free Web Hosting doesn’t suit for commercial purposes at all: used only by those set up website for fun and leisure.

Shared Web Hosting: Enterprise-Level option for small and medium business entities.
Shared Web Hosting, as the name suggests is sharing a server with a number of other websites. Shared Web Hosting serves the purposes of websites of small and medium business entities. The majority of the websites run on shared hosting in view of its affordability and convenience in utilization.

VPS Web Hosting: Enterprise-Level option for larger business entities
VPS Web Hosting or Virtual Private Server Hosting basically divides one single server into multiple web servers through a concept known as "Virtualization". Each website gets its own slot. With its own CPU, RAM, HDD specifications, every slot on a VPS server operates as if it’s an independent Web Server.
In VPS Web Hosting or Virtual Private Server Hosting, one part of the web server does not make any impact on the other unlike a shared server. It is slightly more expensive than Shared Web Hosting yet offers a good option for clients that want power and security but unable to afford the service of Dedicated Web Hosting. Dedicated Web Hosting: Enterprise-Level option for multinational corporations

VPS Web Hosting too having its limitations, popular websites of multinational corporations that attracts millions of visitors per month, opt for a dedicated servers. While selecting the type of Web Hosting available, i.e., Free Web Hosting or Shared Web Hosting or VPS Web Hosting or Dedicated Web Hosting, the space, features, speed, security and reliability are the factors that need to be taken into consideration.

How Much Web Space / Storage Do I Need?

Web Space / Storage is the amount of web server’s disk space available for the website files, images and databases of your website. Web Space is measured by a factor called byte. The byte is a unit of digital information in computing and telecommunications that most commonly consists of eight bits. Shared Hosting is measured by Mega Bytes (MB) or the higher unit of Giga Bytes (GB). A single Giga Byte contain over a one billion bytes.
The volume of Space required varies with the requirements; it could be anywhere between 5MB as provided by some of the free hosts or as moderate as between 250MB – 1GB provided in Shared Web Hosting packages or as mammoth as 300GB provided by some Dedicated Web Hosting packages.
The volume of web space required for your website is determined by several main factors: total size of your site files; total size of log files; room for growth; number of mail boxes and amount of e-mails expected.

How Much Bandwidth Do I Need?

Bandwidth is the volume of data transferred from web server to client’s internet browsers of the readers of your website/clients of your entity. Whenever, wherever a reader/potential client/client access your website, data is transferred from the server to the readers PC, laptop or mobile phone. Of course, the bandwidth consumed in accessing audio, video and images of your website is higher than the bandwidth consumed in accessing text contents. The range of bandwidth utilized in websites with free hosting can be as low as 100MB per month (Free); moderate as 60GB- 200GB in Shared Web Hosting; or as high as 2000GB a month in Dedicated Web Hosting.

How secure is your web hosting for my website?

Web Security is a critical issue for all web sites since hacking attacks could cause serious damage to the business entities in view of sensitive data stored in the websites and web applications. As such it is vitally important your website is hosted in a highly reliable web server.

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