Best Web Hosting Provider

What makes a web hosting provider The Best?

According to my experience, following things matter most;

Security

How much secure their servers are? How much they pay attention towards your data security and their servers structures.

Support

How much support they provide you? When I say support, it means not the tools to get intouch with host which they provide to you, but it means how much they support you in the time of need and in the time of crisis. When something bad happens or your website i.e. it crashes or data damages in case of illegal external intrusion then what is their behaviour? They might provide you an online fancy chat for support but this is not sufficient.

Every host boasts about UNLIMITED bandwidth and UNLIMITED resources. To tell you the truth it is not reality. There is always downtime and quota limit at shared servers which most of us purchase.

We need a webhost which is fair, which means they tell you exactly the condition inwhich their servers and status of their servers is, reliable, secure and supportive.

Recently I went through a crisis and I found a new host. I have not spent much time with them but I am pretty sure they are the best. The reasons and features which are behind this thought are following.

• They are at Unix Systems (Even Linux is not fully secured as Linux has got many users now a days so hackers too)
• They are open to their customers and they let them know the real status of servers and inform them in advance about whatever condition is
• They have got live feed about their ongoing status and servers activity
• They have got a nice and interesting blog which I really liked to read
• Their voice is clear, Services are straight
• They have got lots of cool stuff which other hosts do not have
• They have got DHSOTM (You can include your website in competition and win rewards)
• You can collect donations from you visitors for your hosting expenditures which they handle and you do not need to worry about
• They are green
• They have got referral reward for you (When you recommend somebody to them, they reward you)
• They offer 500GB storage with 5TB bandwidth which increases as you go with them
• Unlimited databases, backups, cron jobs
• Goodies (Cool tools for your website),
  Flash Media
  Jabber Messenger for your website for live communication with your users
  Media Streaming Support with quick time
  and much more…

This is Hosting of your Dreams. Yes, They are DreamHost.
I am a happy DreamHost customer and because of that, they say that I am green, becuase they are green.

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What is Web Hosting? How Does it Works?

Simply put web hosting, or web site hosting, is the process of creating an internet web site and allowing others around the world to view the web site. A web hosting provider is basically a business which rents space on its computers (commonly these computers are called servers.) What happens is that after a web site is created, it is uploaded or transferred to the hosting provider’s server. The hosting provider then allows the world to view the web site when someone types in the web address (or domain name) of the internet site. And then the site (or specifically the page) is sent to the person requesting to view the site. Essentially, web hosting can be defined as providing space on a server which allows others to view your web site.

How Does it Works?
When a site is on the server it is controlled by the software on the computer; i.e., the server software. Currently over 60% of all servers on the internet use the server software known as Apache server. What happens is that when a web site is created on the server, the server software is told where the web site is on the hard disk and the details of the account. Then when a user types in a domain name (web site address) and requests a specific page from their internet browser, that request is sent to the web hosting provider’s server where the web site is located. The server software then finds the specific site and page requested in its list of details, and figures out which page the user wants and then sends that page to the user’s internet browser where the page is displayed. Basically, the server software is the intermediary between the files on the server and the browser requesting the web pages. Server software can process millions and millions of requests each day.