WEBHOSTING

Web Hosting is a type of service in internet environment that allows individuals, organizations to maintain own website in the world wide web.

Remember the following points –

1. A common internet service is web hosting.

2. Web hosting means storing your website on a public server.

3. Web hosting normally includes email services.

4. Web hosting often includes domain name registration.

Web Hosting Types –

These are classified into three types –

1. Free hosting – Free web hosting is best suited for small sites with low traffic, like personal site.

2. Shared hosting – With shared hosting your web sites gets its own domain name and is hosted on a powerful server along with other web sites.

3. Dedicated hosting – Dedicated hosting is the most expensive option. This option is best suited for large websites with high traffic, and websites that use special software.

Web Hosting providers and their services –

To make your website visible to the world you should store in the public web server, they are providing following web services –

§  Connection speed

§  Powerful hardware

§  Security and Stability

§  24 hour support

§  Daily backup

§  Email capabilities.

Web Hosting Technologies –

The following technologies frequently we are using in the web hosting environment.

1. Windows hosting – It means hosting of web services that runs on the windows operating system.

2. Linux hosting – It means hosting of web services that runs on the Linux operating system.

3. Unix hosting – It means hosting of web services that runs on the Unix operating system. Less expensive than Windows hosting.

Web Hosting Database Technologies –

There are many different database systems.

1. SQL Server – Microsoft SQL server is popular database software for database driven web sites with high traffic.

2. Oracle – It is also popular database software for database driven websites with high traffic.

3. MySQL – It is also popular database software for websites. MYSQL is a very powerful, robust and full featured SQL database system.

What is a Domain Name?

It is a unique name for your website. Your domain name should be easy to remember and easy to type. While you are selecting domain name follow the characteristics –

§  Short

§  Meaningful

§  Clear

§  Exposure

How to register a domain

§  Go to https://byet.host/

§  Click on free hosting

§  Click on signup for free hosting.

§  Fill the registration form.

Note – Internet explorer not recommended.

It displays an activation message, this message redirects to specific mail id.

§  Go to your registered mail inbox.

§  Activate bytehost link.

§  After few second it displays account order confirmation.

§  Go back to required email inbox. Check for new mail, it contains cpanel details as follows.

§  Clivk on cpanel url.

§  It displays a login screen. Enter the details.

§  Click on login it displays list of components like – Preferences, Domains, Email, Databases, Logs, Files, Security etc

§  Click on File Manager. It displays file manager details on htdocs.

How to upload a file

§  Go to file manager, click on upload button.

§  Click on choose a file.

§  Select the required file.

§  Click on confirm.

§  Click on back button. It displays uploaded file.

§  If you want to open this file you need to type http://domainname.bytehost33.com

§  To avoid the file name follow the navigation.

§  Go to file manager.

§  Select required file.

§  Click on rename.

§  Enter index.html

§  Click on confirmation.

§  Click on back button.

§  It is displaying as index.html.

§  We can open directly as follows – domainname.bytehost33.com

How to modify the webpage in the live

§  Go to file manager.

§  Select the required HTML file.

§  Click on edit, it displays online editor with our existing source code.

§  Do require notifications. Click on save and refresh webpage.

How to upload multiple resources

§  Select the required list of files.

§  Right click. Click on add to archive.

§  Select Zip format. Click ok.

§  Go to bytehost file manager.

§  Click on upload.

§  Select choose file select the required zip file.

§  Click on confirm.

§  Click on back button.

How to unzip a folder in the server

Select the required file. Click on unzip. Confirm the message. Click on back button.

Control panel components

1. Preferences – It contains preferences like – Account setting, change password, Update contact email, Change language, Upgrade plans.

2. Domains – It contains domains like – subdomains, add on domains

3. Email – It contains email account like – webmail, Personal mail, email accounts related to all categories.

4. Databases – It contains the details of database like MYSQL. It is default database for all free websites.

5. Files – It contains every file information including – backups, online file manager, disc space usage, FTP accounts

How to create Security layer https

We can create Secured Socket Layer(SSL) through SSL manager

6. Domain Naming System – It contains actual url with components like – redirects, records.

7. Software/Services – It contains components like – cloud computing details, account statistic, error pages, password protect directories etc.