The 'Jargon' of Web Hosting

Domain Name

A domain name is the name which shows the place where one’s website is located. The actual address of the website is a set of numbers. Each and every web server has its own unique address. Domain name indicates the real addresses of every websites.

Space / Storage

Storage space is provided by the web host. Storage is the amount of space that is available for user’s website files and media files. Storage space varies depending on user preferences with free hosting usually allowing up to10MB of storage space and dedicated servers usually offering up to 300GB of storage space.

Bandwidth

Bandwidth can be defined as the amount of data transferred from web server to clients’ internet browsers. Whenever a person stumbles across a page the data is transmitted from the web server to that person’ PC. If anyone is having audio, video and images in his/her website then the bandwidth consumed is more in comparison of the website having only text contents. The bandwidth available in free hosting can be as low as 100MB per month where as in some dedicated servers the bandwidth available is as high as 2000GB a month.

To purchase hosting at the lowest possible price, the UK Make Money Programs team would reccomend using Hostgator.