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Comprehensive Interpretation of the shared web hosting


shared web hosting in the establishment of the advantages of the site is clear. This article is to introduce you the specific applications of shared web hostings, use and maintenance of knowledge, if you are building a website but do not know where to start to worry about, it would follow the introduction of this paper to apply it to build a shared web hosting.

1 What is Web Hosting?

(A) the background of the shared web hosting

We know, Internet is the world's different types of computers and computer networks to connect a global network, the Internet, connected to numerous computer, regardless of what these computer models, run the operating system and software can be classified into two categories: client and server. The client is to obtain information by accessing the server machine, it does not have a fixed IP address, only if its ADSL dial-up by telephone or post, was the temporary allocation of an IP address, and when we break, the computer is released from the Internet, while IP addresses were also recovered; while the server is to provide information for others to access the machine, commonly known as the host. Because people may visit at any time to it, so must all the time as a host connected to the Internet, has its own permanent IP address. Do not have to purchase a dedicated computer hardware, had to hire expensive data lines, plus a variety of maintenance costs such as rent, labor, electricity, etc., for the people who built them, is a not a small expenditure. As a result, people developed a shared web hosting.

(B) What is Web Hosting

The so-called shared web hosting (shared web hosting / Virtual Server), also known as virtual server or a shared server, is the use of special hardware and software technology to a computer running the server host on the Internet into a "virtual" host, so that multiple users share a server, to reduce costs and maintenance costs Jianzhan purpose. At the same time, they each have a shared web hosting domain name or IP address of an independent, with full Internet servers (WWW, FTP, E-mail, etc.) functions. Moreover, the shared web hostings are completely independent, no interference, the user can self-manage their own shared web hosting, the outside, each shared web hosting Jiugen host a performance of exactly the same independent.

(C) the advantages of shared web hostings

1. Saving investment. Use of "shared web hosting" technology, allows users to save a lot of unnecessary expenses, including the acquisition of servers, leased line and other hardware devices and arrange various system management personnel costs.

2. Saving maintenance costs. By using "shared web hosting", can save maintenance costs, a 64K line in the domestic cost of basic monthly thousand dollars, and because in many regions of two-way billing approach, the higher the site traffic, users have to pay the more the cost, while the price of the virtual server typically only a few hundred dollars a year.

3. Access to professional maintenance and no maintenance personnel and expensive power system. Professional network system providers very often spend a lot of investment for the construction of back-up power systems to cope with power failures, and has a number of professional maintenance personnel, these resources for the general's Qi Ye is unnecessary Zhichu.

4. Has a more stable performance. Common enterprise-level Web site is often only through a one ISP access, if this vendor is defective, the user will be affected. Taken to hire a "shared web hosting" program with service providers can often be more stable routing performance, since most web hosting service providers rely on backbone generally more than one, can guarantee that the system can not be a supplier of a impact.

Second, pick your own shared web hosting

Currently, very few of the free web hosting, and the stability of the host is not secure, such as pay, it is proposed that all the economic, subject to purchase or pay for the shared web hosting.

Tip: you can go to several web site for Table 1 about free web hosting, free "pie", while not so good, but you can try it.

Now available for the shared web hosting you choose is very much, individual has its unique and how we choose a shared web hosting that best suits your do? First, define their functional requirements of the shared web hosting: If your website is included database support, if requested space to support ASP / CGI procedures. In general, support the more dynamic language projects, the higher the fees, the minimum cost of pure HTML. Secondly, after the payment by way of the first trial. This way we can the stability of the service provider space and technical services in areas such as understanding, satisfaction and then payment to buy. Finally, shop around, many consulting a number of service providers. Web hosting provider and pay a shared web hosting reference price Table 2, Table 3.

Third, actual web hosting to upload, update and maintain

Apply for or to purchase a shared web hosting, we then can upload your web pages to the appropriate host the server.



Here we have an example to CuteFTP ProV3.2 Build 7.01.1 describe the upload page, update and maintain.

(A) create a shared web hosting FTP site

Run CuteFTP Pro, and then click click: "File ¡ú New ¡ú FTP Site" (or click "Ctrl + N"), then the corresponding "Site Properties" dialog box in order to set the following options (Figure 1):

1. Tags: that is, to the new FTP site from one easy to remember name. Such as "Literature Corridor" (you can set your own preferences), so next time we enter the CuteFTP, the direct select "Literary corridor" to connect to the server.

2. Host address: is the input to connect to FTP server host name, here is fill in their application of the shared web hosting address. In this case: 61.151.252.226, attention is not brought before the host name "http://" and "ftp://" in the.

Tip: Here is the shared web hosting FTP server after a successful application for hosting the FTP IP address prompt.

3. User name and password. Enter your own applications using the user name and password. The rest you can use the default settings.

End these options set, click the OK button, the site links to automatically appear in the CuteFTP Site Manager software in the left side.

(B) From the local website



1. Connect the shared web hosting server. First CuteFTP, double-click the FTP site we just created (or use the mouse to select the site, followed by clicking "File ¡ú Connection ¡ú Connect") to connect to our shared web hosting server to connect to the server, we will see to a file manager and Windows is very similar to the CuteFTP window (Figure 2), which documents the left side of the window-based machine, the right is the server's file, web server hosting the network's default folder for the three, respectively, Database (database storage folder), Logofile (log file folder, the system automatically without the need to manually add), and the wwwroot (web storage folder).

2. In the left window of the machine, open the folder folder store pages, such as Wxcl, select all pages to upload, click the right mouse button, select the "Upload" button (of course also use the mouse to drag operation can).

(C) Web site updates and maintenance

Wang Zhan De regular updates and maintenance is divided into two cases, one is the update dynamic pages, if purchase of the ASP or CGI and other space, and home use of the automatic updates of the news updates Yongyou Huoshi graphics systems and other systems, Ze the background by the program to update a file the other is to update the static Web page, the update file for this Web page and file upload operation is exactly the same, that is to be uploaded to the website updated shared web hosting.

4, some additional

1. Not only cheaper plans, technical services is crucial. Cheap goods are no good for the shared web hosting server.

2. In the time of purchase to pay attention to what the shared web hosting limit, so as not to buy up to find that they need to use some of the functionality is disabled.

3. Pay attention to whether there are traffic restrictions, so as not to increase once the traffic can not visit.

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