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9 WEB PUBLISHING
Your Aim
to learn about:
l Web Hosting Service Providers l Types of Web Hosting
Web publishing is a process through which you can upload and update your web pages on
the Internet. It is also known as web hosting or online hosting. To upload a website, you may
purchase some space on a web server. After purchasing the space on the web server, you need
to login with the username and password provided by the web hosting service provider. You also
need web publishing software and an Internet connection.
Once the website is published, it will available for others on the Internet through WWW. The
World Wide Web (WWW) is a service of information in a combination of text, photographs,
graphics, audio, video, etc. that are presented on the internet. It allows the multimedia and
hypertext files to be displayed and linked on the Internet. Before WWW, Internet was mainly
used in obtaining textual information. Due to its distinct features, the popularity of WWW is
increasing day by day.
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A web server is a software that runs on a system of devices built to handle the HTTP requests
from a client.
WEB HOSTING SERVICE PROVIDERS
Web hosting service providers are the organisations that provide servers, connectivity, and
associated services to host websites. They offer different types of plans ranging from free with
limited services to expensive web hosting services specialised for large business. Once you select
the desired plan, your web hosting service provider will give you the domain name system (DNS)
which makes sure that the browser connects to the right server on which your website’s files are
stored.
TYPES OF WEB HOSTING
There are mainly four types of web hosting: Shared Web Hosting, VPS Web Hosting, Dedicated
Web Hosting and Self Service Web Hosting. Let us learn about these in detail.
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