Benefits of Web Hosting and Choice of a Web Host

Well let us start this way, a lot of people don’t know why we need web hosting packages, some people feel web hosting it's just another Internet thing, while others feel web hosting is an opportunity for some people to make out something i.e. money making.
But lets ask ourselves what is WEB HOSTING. Web hosting is the ability to move a business or information, product content, research to the Internet. Also a web host is the person who offers web-hosting services to clients, persons or business

The cost of setting up and maintaining a web presence is quite high, both in terms of the hardware and software required and also in terms of ongoing system maintenance. Customers using this service will benefit from significant reduction in the cost of having a web presence. 

Web hosting has many benefits, among them is          

•  up to 600 GB transfer each month
  
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• up to 2500 POP3 E-mail Accounts
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• up to 50 Databases

•  up to 600 GB storage
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• 99.99% uptime Guaranteed!
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• Full Backups
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• Industrial strength web service provision

• Standardized system maintenance thus removing this burden from users

• High availability

• Each user of the service has a 'virtual server' with an associated internet domain.

• Support most site maintenance interfaces for users to update their sites ( i.e. FTP, network share and Frontpage Server Extensions)

• Closely monitored server security with security patches maintained

• Support for most commonly used web-programming methods; e.g. ASP.NET 1.1 and 2.0, ASP, PERL, PHP with options to use other technologies

• Support for web databases- Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and MySQL

• High bandwidth connections to the university gigabit backbone network with redundancy connections

• Performance and availability of your web site is monitored by support staff

• Sites contents are frequently backed up by the system automatically

• Sites can be defined as either internet or intranet sites