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So you now have a website which is designed and built.....
.....how will your customers get to see it?
All websites need to
be hosted in order to be seen by their intended customers. Choosing your hosting service is as crucial as the content
that you put into your website. If the hosting service cannot provide secure, reliable facilities then your website
will fail.
So What is Web Hosting?
The World Wide Web is a collection of thousands and
thousands of very large computers all connected to the internet. These computers (or servers) provide
'space' for other websites to file their pages and data on them so that anyone searching on the internet can view
them at any given time. Think of these computers
as large filing cabinets in the local library. The data is stored there for quick and easy access to anyone wishing
to find it.
You may ask why you need to pay for additional hosting
services to store your website content and data, rather than on your own computer. For a number of reasons this would be unwise:
- turning your computer into a web server requires technical knowledge
- it is virtually unachievable to use your computer and reliably
host a web site on it, at the same time, successfully
- your Internet connection will easily become saturated, possibly incurring
the displeasure of your Internet Service Provider
- if your power supply, PC or ADSL connection fail, your web site is
no longer available.
As well as offering simple, clear and
cost effective web design and build,
Smudge
Webdesign can also provide a secure, reliable web hosting package
that is suitable for your website business.
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