Dedicated Web Hosting

Web hosting is typically done by a web hosting service provider offering website owners with businesses the premier goal: to establish a web presence. Hosting servers do this by providing the opportunity and applications for creating online stores, online catalogs, and other tools for such things as specialized ordering and database capabilities. At this level, web hosting service providers enable business owners to feature product listings, maintain merchant accounts, and make available to customers “shopping carts” for collecting, storing, and purchasing products/services as repeat buyers. Dedicated hosting includes all of the above, and as well, provides what is called a “dedicated” server, one that devotes itself to a business web site’s traffic concerns. While typically only busy businesses (sorry for the redundancy) need dedicated web hosting, these web hosts will then purchase their own private servers. But in the same respect, dedicated web hosting services can be rented. The web hosting package, then, would include such amenities and tools as simple as the provision of a domain name and registration of that name, to capabilities for storage for and use of a good number of email addresses--for staff/partners, colleagues, contractors…anyone associated

with your business—and maybe even a site builder, web design tools, and useful design/user instruction guide; as well as dedicated buttons (with built-in HTML codes, or instructions for pasting codes); ample disk space (for data storage); ample bandwidth (airwave space); and, of course dedicated web hosting support, which comes with the rented network server. Again, not all networks servers are dedicated, and not all dedicated web hosting is rented or restricted to businesses. Consider the many universities and community colleges, for instance, that have their own servers/networks. They, too, are using dedicated web hosting. Then again, some say schools are businesses, too.