Tuesday 8 November 2011

A Quick View on Web Hosting And Its Benefits

Web Hosting is becoming a fast growing business now days. There are millions of websites on the internet that are accessed everyday from all over the world. The websites are available on the internet because these are hosted on the web servers. Hosting a website means to store web pages of the website on the servers so that these are available on the internet 24×7. There are different web hosting techniques using which one can host a website. Windows Hosting is one of the common techniques that is used to host a website.
 
Windows hosting means hosting the website on a web server running on the Windows operating system and supporting windows services and products. Windows Hosting is an expensive hosting as compared to the open source since it is a proprietary product. It is compatible with the services provided by the Microsoft. Managing a website on a windows web server is easy as it is user friendly. It provides various features like FTP with the help of which we can upload our files on the website. If a website is using Access or MS SQL as the databases, then Windows Hosting is very good for such a website as it is very compatible with these databases. It supports ASP .Net as the web programming language. If a website is ASP driven, then it must be hosted on a windows server. It also supports PHP and MySQL but not to that extent as supported by Linux Hosting. It also offers good security features so that the website is safe from any malicious attack on the server.

Windows Hosting is a good hosting option if our website is using ASP. Net application or the access databases as these products are very much compatible with Windows operating System. It depends on the type of application that the user is running on his website and the database that he is using for his website. If the user is using the above mentioned products for his website, then Windows Hosting is a very good option for hosting the website.

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