Web hosting
Q. What is Web Hosting?
A.Web hosting is the act of renting space and bandwidth through a company so that you may publish your web site online.
Q. What is virtual hosting?
A. Also known as shared hosting, this form of web hosting should suffice for most everyone.
Virtual hosting simple refers to the fact that your site is on one server, and that this server hosts multiple sites. You are virtually shared - your site will not be the only one on this specific server.
Very few sites would actually need the power of a dedicated server, so this option provides to be a reliable and cheap solution.
Q. What is dedicated hosting?
A. For sites requiring more power than what normal hosting can provide, a dedicated server is usually the better route to take.
Having a dedicated server is a completely different from normal virtual (shared) hosting. The server is now fully yours - the entire hard disk and all the bandwidth allocated can be used as needed. There is no longer any CPU Usage restriction. If you need, you can use up 100% CPU utilization. You can put all your sites on this one server without having to worry about paying hosting fees for each site added.
Domain Names
Q. What is a Domain Name?
A. The unique name that identifies an Internet site. Domain Names always have 2 or more parts, separated by dots. The part on the left is the most specific, and the part on the right is the most general.
Q: Can I have my own domain name?
A: Yes. If you currently own a company or operate an organization and you would like to personalize your email address with your company or organization domain name, PortONE Internet can arrange this for you.
Q. What exactly is space and bandwidth/data transfer?
A. Space is the size your website can be. Every single letter on your website has to be stored somewhere on your web host's server. Each letter is one byte, and a megabyte is roughly one million bytes. HTML pages are usually very small, but it is the extra images, scripts, and even databases that can take up large amounts of disk space.
Bandwidth/Transfer is the amount of data the server will allow your site to send in a month. Transfer is usually measured in gigabytes - billions of bytes.
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