Hosting a website

Basics for hosting a website

What Is Web Hosting?

• A place for storing files of websites.

• A internet enabled computer that can be accessed from other computers connected to internet.

• Can store datas like HTML files, images, videos… etc

• A server computer with high performance and high-speed internet connectivity.

Types of Web Hosting

• Shared Server Hosting

• Virtual Private Server (VPS) Hosting

• Dedicated Server Hosting

• Cloud Hosting

Shared Server Hosting

• Easy to manage• Less security• Less control on server• Have common pool of

server resource for all domains.

Virtual Private Server (VPS) Hosting

• Need knowledge about networking.

• Offers security• More control on server

Dedicated Server Hosting

• Need knowledge about networking and configurations.

• Offers high security• Full control on server

Cloud Hosting

• Ability to handle high traffic

• Offers high security• Multiple computers to

work together to handle high traffic levels

What Is A Domain Name?

• A domain is the name of your website.

• You will need to register your domain with a domain registrar. (Eg:Godaddy,Domain.com, dot.tk...etc.)

Let us start..!

Open your browser and go to

www. byethost.com

Let us start..!

Fill up the form

• Check your mail, for the activation link and you will get the login details from that link.

• Then login to the control panel.

Control panel

Files tab - >online file manager

Open the htdocs directory

Click the upload button and upload the files

• If you need to create folders on server,

then click on the “new dir” button and give a name.

Is it working?

Go to your website url (given by byethost) to check if it is working or not.

• If you have a file named index.html then it will automatically opens that file otherwise you need to mention the file name with url

Ex: <yourSubDomain>.byethost<n>.com/<filename.html>

DONE..!

You have hosted your website..!