What is web hosting and web publishing?
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What is web hosting and web publishing?
Creating a website and placing it on the web server is called web publishing. A website is a collection of HTML pages with the home page typically named INDEX.HTML. website are designed using web authoring software which provides a graphical layout capability or by hand coding in HTML or both. It includes creating and uploading websites, updating webpages, and posting blogs online. the published contents may include text, images, videos, and other types of media.
Web hosting is the service that makes our website available to be viewed by others on the internet. A web host provides space on its server, so that other computers around the world can access our website by means of a network or modem. the users want to view our website, all they need to do is type our website address into their browser. Their computer will then connect to our server and our webpages will be delivered to them through the browser.
Most web hosting companies require that we own our domain name in order to host with them. If you do not have a domain name, the web hosting companies will help us purchase one.
The basic features of a web hosting plan include:
- Disk space
- Bandwidth or Data transfer
- E- mail accounts
- FTP access