Web hosting is terminology that is very foreign for new web site owners, especially when they are beginning to create their web site. They will hear of terms like domain names, web hosting, web site design and graphic layout design. Shared web hosting when you understand it is an easy concept to understand. To summarize, web site hosting is a place to hold your PHP files and images.

Those looking to purchase an affordable web site hosting package will be required to learn the different features you get with shared web hosting, such as disk space, transfer amount, number of email accounts and types of programming languages you can use.

Disk Space

Hosting disk space is indicative of the title, and is just like the hard drive space you have on your own computer. It lets you know the disk size available to the site owner to host your ASP files and flash files you have for your website. Multimedia, such as images and videos will take up more of your hosting space, while your text based coded files will use less disk space. The requirement for the disk space you should look into buying depends ultimately on the file types you are hosting, and the overall file size of your web site.

Bandwidth

Bandwidth for a hosting account is much like the bandwidth you use when connecting to the internet. Each time a file is viewed from your web site, it is added to your total for bandwidth used for your site. Bandwidth will be different depending on the plan, and you will need to pick the bandwidth usage based on how much traffic your site will receive and how big your site is in file size. There will be lower bracketed offerings of hosting bandwidth all the way up to web hosting service providers giving unlimited hosting plans.

Hosting Server Configuration

The last topic to cover here is the types of hosting servers available. The server type will limit the file types, like PHP, that you will be able to host. All servers will run HTML, CSS and JavaScript, since they are handled by web browsers, like Internet Explorer. One point to highlight is Linux hosting is usually a lower cost choice and Linux server hosting with Apache supports PHP. Windows server hosting runs with IIS and is generally used for Active Server Pages (ASP) files. Linux is more commonly picked as most {open source projects like Joomla run off PHP~Windows is generally pricier due to the cost associated with purchasing the windows license for the server}.

Take all these factors into account when purchasing your next web hosting package.