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WEB HOSTING &

UPLOADING

SITI ZULAIHA BINTI MOHD RAISPGC070003

Web hosting

• A service that provides Internet users with online systems for storing information, images, video, or any content accessible via the web

• Web hosts - companies that provide space on a server they own for use by their clients

Service Scope

• The most basic is :• webpage • small-scale file hosting, where files can be

uploaded via File Transfer Protocol (FTP) or a Web interface.

• Personal web site hosting is typically free, advertisement-sponsored, or cheap. • Single page hosting

• Business web site hosting often has a higher expense.

Service Scope

• A complex site with comprehensive package provides:• database support and application development

platforms (e.g. PHP, Java, and ASP.NET). • allow the customers to write or install scripts for

applications• forums and content management.

• The host may also provide an interface control panel :• cPanel, Plesk

• for managing the Web server and installing scripts as well as other services like e-mail.

• E.g http://www.sksbu.com

Type of Hosting

• Free web hosting service

• Shared web hosting service/virtual hosting service

• Reseller web hosting

• Virtual Dedicated Server

• Dedicated hosting service

• Managed hosting service

• Colocation web hosting service

• Clustered hosting

• Grid hosting

Web Hosts Service Providers

• File hosting service

• Image hosting service

• Video hosting service

• Blog hosting service

• One-click hosting

• Shopping cart software

Choosing A Free Web Host

• Advertising

• Amount of web space

• FTP access

• File type and size limitations

• Reliability and speed of access

• CGI-BIN access / PHP

• Bandwidth allotment

Free web hosting

Ranking System

• Research, research, research first before purchase a long term web hosting plan.

• In Example, Web Hosting Bluebook has 3 specific points of reference when grading and ranking web hosting services.

1) Affordable • Simply put, is it cheap? The average

customer wants quality at a affordable price. • Low prices, good service.• With lots of storage, bandwidth and all tools

required for a quality website for webmasters.

Cont...

2) Reliable • Technology now days is so advance and back

up storage is affordable that there's no excuse for web hosting services to be down.

3) Customer Service • All hosting sites are pre-screened to uphold

strong customer service skills, in helping assist the customer in tech problems, account or any other issue that may come up.

Benefits

• 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

Cont...

• 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

• Site-specific search engine

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

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

Cont...

• Sites contents are frequently backed up by the system automatically

• Sites can be defined as either internet or intranet sites

• Ability to set up secure server

• Access log analysis reports provided automatically

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