How Does Shared Hosting Work and What Services are Available

You decide to place your website on a server that is shared by others. The hosting company gives you a number of options to choose from regarding how you want your server set up. He creates your account. He provides you with so much disk space on his server that is shared by many other websites. He gives you a log in account and password. He also gives you the IP address of where to upload your files to his server. But this is now all, he gives you more. Here is a list of what are some options the shared hosting provider will give you:

 

·        Email accounts: This is usually automatic with hosting companies. After setting up your account, they send you the information by email so you know how to establish the email account with the domain name you are using.

·        Technical support: This is important. What would you do if you had a problem uploading files to their server? Or if you could not access your website? This is why they provide technical support for situations like these.

·        Website backup: This is very important just in case one of their servers crashes. They can restore it quickly for you so you don’t have to go through the motion yourself of having to re-upload everything.

·        Website statistics: You should get a URL where you can look at your website statistics. This way you can tell how many hits you get in a day, week, or month.