What are the features of webhost - ask2talk

To get your small business on the Web, you’ll need a great Web hosting service. The best web hosting services provide much more than space on a server. They also offer up easy-to-use website building tools, deep control options and great customer support.

Lets talk about features or services that web host provides with different plans, many of these items are not important and should be included by default in even the most basic of hosting plans. In fact there are a some features that you should pay sound attention to. Lets have a look on this picture and try to find out which one you know or want to know more about it.

We have listed down the features , now we will discuss every topic in details , let’s start with “Domains” first.

Domains

Many web hosts provider give option to their clients either register a domain name at the time of signup if you do not have or let you bring your own domain name. you can also check how many domain names are supported for an account. If you want to own another domain name, it would be nice to be able to add it to an existing plan without investing money or you can say free of cost.

Sub Domains

A sub domain is something which will appears like this “http://www.myhome.your.com”. here your.com is a domain and its sub domain is “myhome”. Sub domains do not place a burden on the web server, but many hosting plans will limit the number of sub domains allowed per account.

 Databases

If you are planning to make website which requires databases then before sign up just make sure that your web Host provides sufficient number of databases.
The most common database for a web server is MySQL, which is a free open-source database system. MSSQL, PostgreSQL and GNU SQL are also popular SQL servers.

PHP Version

PHP has gone through many revisions, be sure that the PHP on the server is up to date.Else PHP scripts many not function properly. PHP is in late version of 5.x and will soon be moving on to version 6.x.

Hot Link Protection

Hot Link Protection allows you to prevent other persons from linking directly to media files located on your web server. When someone tries to link directly to your image it will deny the request, preventing them from using up your bandwidth. This is particularly useful for web sites that host a large quantity of media files. Visitors on your site will still be able to view the media as usual.

FTP Access

here are two basic types of FTP access to a web server.

·         Password protected FTP :- it is common for webmasters to utilize for managing their web files.

·         Without  password FTP(Anonymous FTP) : - you can post files to a publicly accessible directory and users may directly connect to your server with anonymous FTP to access your files.

Note: Depending on the plan's specifications, file transfers over FTP may or may not count against your allotted monthly bandwidth.