Services on Web Hosting

Email

There are many hosting plans that include the feature of having some email accounts with customer’s domain. The availability of number and size of email accounts totally depends on the hosting plan one opted. Generally this feature is not included in free hosting. Small plans provide only about 10 accounts where as big plans do not have the limited number.

File Transfer Protocol (FTP)

The other service is FTP. File Transfer Protocol is the usual way of transferring files across the Internet. Most webmasters use FTP clients to upload and download their websites contents through FTP. The process of uploading or downloading is performed by using FTP client software. Users require FTP username and password so that they can access their web server.

Control Panel

Control panel is the service made available by pretty much all of the web hosting companies out there today. The control panel is a web based application that helps in managing websites. The control panel has many important functions that it fulfills; it is used to manage email accounts, databases, statistics, bandwidth etc

Uptime

The uptime of a website is crucial. Just think about it, if a website has excellent features but is down constantly, then it will be of no use whatsoever as potential visitors of the website won’t be able to access the website. If a server remains down near about 30 minutes a day will have an uptime percentage of about 99.98%, which is acceptable for most small to medium business websites. If any business websites are not having at least this percentage of uptime then that website should not be a business website.

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