Review The Top 10 Web Hosting Providers

To be considered a top web hosting provider these companies have to include the basic web hosting features as well as be in the top percentile in their offered services.

These plans are compared by the products overall combined rating, based on price, disk storage and bandwidth allowance, domain registration offer, service and interface, server reliability and environmental friendliness and extras with the plan.

What is Web Hosting?

Web hosting is the act of storing files on a computer, called a web server, that is continuously connected to the internet through special connections. A server has special software that is designed to read requests from the internet, check for the existence of the files on its hard drive and send the file back to the requesting browser in an HTTP response.

What is a Domain Name?

A domain name is a web address such as "webrelatedstuff.com". When you register a domain name the IP address of the server that is hosting your web pages is stored with it. When someone's web browser requests a file from that domain, the request is sent to that server, where the server checks if the domains files are present and returns the file.

What is Storage and Traffic?

Storage is the amount of space that you are allowed on a servers hard drive. This is usually measured in gigabytes. Traffic, or bandwidth, refers to how much info that your are allowed to send through a servers connection each month. Most html files use very little of either, however multimedia files, like videos, can use up allot of storage space and bandwidth