Internet Functionality

Internet or the world wide web (www) is a network of computers connected to each other. The companies that provide the service are known as Internet Service Providers (ISP). The file sharing is achieved by the web server software. The popular web server software’s are Windows IIS (Internet Information Server) and Apache.

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Users send requests to the internet to view the websites. Web client software is used to make these requests. Examples of web clients are web browsers such as Internet Explorer, Opera and Netscape.

To make the website available on the internet the website files need to be hosted on a web server. The web server is nothing but a powerful computer which has the capacity to handle thousands of requests made to the website. The web servers need to be connected to the internet at all times for users to access the website whenever required. The Web Hosting service provider is the one that sells the server space for the website. A web hosting company provides high bandwidth connection for the ease of accessing the website by users. The website can be hosted by the website owner, but there are few following why it is difficult. Due to the following reasons why a web host is preffered.

  • Setting up all the configurations which also includes mail server, DNS server and FTP server is complicated.
  • Server software and Server are expensive (such as virus protection, web server, firewall, mail server etc.)
  • Server maintenance requires special skills, knowledge and most importantly 24 hour support.
  • The server needs 24*7 high speed internet connection which is costly.

Considering such factors the website to be hosted with a web hosting company is always a better option. Web hosting is cheap. There are few web hosting companies that provide free web hosting services, but its not recommended for professional and company websites. The free web hosting company recovers the costs by showing adds on the users website. Free hosting provides very less flexibility in terms of have own domain names and email addresses.But the website owner has the privilege of chosing between Linux Server and Windows Server.