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Answer:
Web hosting is the act of renting space and bandwidth
through a company so that you may publish your web site online.
What is a Domain Name?
Answer:
A domain name is a word along with a TLD that
uniquely identifies your website.
What is Mangaged hosting
Answer:
Managed hosting is a hands free service we offer where we will
take care of all issues you need like e-mail set up, database setup, uploads,
and other services you would have to do yourself with unmanaged
hosting.
Answer:
These are all programming languages which are referred to by
their acronyms.
PHP - PHP: Hypertext
Preprocessor
ASP - Active Server
Pages
Perl - not an
acronym
Each programming language has its own benefits and uses. It
is best that you research on your own to find one that best fits your needs.
What is MySQL, MS SQL, etc?
Answer:
MySQL and MS SQL are
database systems. Depending on what your host provides, you can use a database
to organize your data.
Do I have to change my domain if I get a new host?
Answer:
No. Provided that the domain is registered in your name (as
it should be), you can simply update your namservers (from
where you manage your domain names) to that of your new host.
Will there be forced advertising on my site - things like banner ads or popup ads?
Answer:
Not at all. You are paying for webspace
that is only yours - no one may put ads on your site except you.
What is uptime?
Answer:
Uptime is literally what it means - it is the amount of time
your site is online throughout the entire month.
The best uptime would be
100%, but because things can break, many hosts offer 99.9% uptime guarantees.
This means that if your site is not accessible for more than 43 minutes in a
single month, they will reimburse you, depending on their terms of service.
How do I track how many hits my website gets?
Answer:
There are a few things that need to be cleared in terms of
terminology:
- Hits - this simply refers to the number of 'elements' loaded on your
site. If one page has five images in it, viewing that page once adds 6 hits (one
page + five images).
- Impressions - the number of times all the pages on your site are seen (also
simply called pageviews). Impressions are sometimes referred to
as 'hits' which can cause confusion
- Uniques - the number of people that visited your site
So to clarify, if I visit your website, look at two pages, and each page has 5 images on it, then your stats increase by one unique, two page views, and 12 hits.
Tracking on your site can be either done server-side or remotely. With server-side statistics, log files are used to generate visitor information. This is usually much more accurate than remotely hosted solutions. In such cases, you usually have to add some javascript to your site. This javascript is then used to track visitor data.
If your host provides it (and many do), server-side statistics are a good solution. Otherwise, companies like Site Meter can be used to remotely track your visitors.
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