1) What is Hosting Websites

To host a website is to hold it on a always on computer known as a server so that the whole world have access to it 24/7..........See: What is Hosting Websites

2) What is Gaming Servers

A gaming server is a a Dedicated or Virtual Private Server that acts as a fast host for many people playing a multiplayer game. Usually this is better than hosting on someones computer as this would slow there gameplay down and there connection speed wouldnt match that of a datacentre..........See: What is Gaming Servers

3) What is Plesk Hosting

Plesk is a script that can be installed to provide the server owner/operator with a customer support platform with tickets and other features. Can be modified to blend in with a site or control panel..........See: What is Plesk Hosting

4) What is RedHat Hosting

RedHat is a version of Linux that has been very popular for many years, hosting on this would be a good choice. Recently hosting companies (such as us) have moved on to CloudLinux so that we can balance the load across many computers..........See: What is RedHat Hosting

5) I have a domain name - do I still need web hosting

You wills till need web hosting as a place to keep the files for your website and to handle the databases etc. The domain name you have will need to be pointed to the hosting as the hosting will have an IP address or a really ugle basic name for where it is actually kept..........See: I have a domain name - do I still need web hosting

6) What is Bandwidth

Bandwidth is how we look at the amount of data that has gone in and out of your hosting account. Its also a good way of measuring a sites activity, the more bandwidth used usually means a much more active site. This can be wrong because you could have a site that deals in huge video files which woul.........See: What is Bandwidth

7) What is Datacenter Hosting

A data Centre gives the impression that the establishment would be for mass storage, this isnt really true. Its just another term for a location where lots of servers are kept. The servers kept here could be more focussed on processing task than storing mass amounts of data..........See: What is Datacenter Hosting

8) What is CPU

A Central Processing Unit is the core processing component of a computer, the speed and power of this will determine the computers ability to do lots of things quickly. In VPS you want a good processor to handle lots of database and computing intensive tasks..........See: What is CPU

9) What is Low Bandwidth Hosting

I assume low bandwidth hosting is just another term for starter etc.

When you start out in online marketing or running sites, you want to make sure you start with a small package from a hosting company. Then when you start to use up resources, move onto a bigger package with more spac.........See: What is Low Bandwidth Hosting

10) What is Open-Realty Hosting

Open-Realty is an Open Source property selling site script. Install it to have an instant place to sell homes, edit it and promote to have a very lucrative estate agent that you own!.........See: What is Open-Realty Hosting

11) What is Fantastico Hosting

Fantastico is a Program that lets you install scripts such as Wordpress,Joomla or OpenX, plus many more. With just a few clicks you have a fantastic free website that you edit to whatever you want. All the hard work is done for you so you can get on with promoting and running it. Softaculous is simi.........See: What is Fantastico Hosting

12) Can I use my account for commercial purposes

Of course, you can usually use your hosting for whatever you want.... as long as its legal!.........See: Can I use my account for commercial purposes

13) What is OpenX Hosting

OpenX is a banner ad management site script that is open source and free. You can install it from our Application Installer with our hosting for free. It allows you to easily manage adverts across the web from an easy to sue interface, you can even control the ads that appear on your site and make a.........See: What is OpenX Hosting

14) What is Budget Hosting

Budget hosting sounds like more of a con than a pro. Buying the cheapest hosting you can is usually the biggest mistake you can make. Hosting that costs nothing or even a couple of dollars a year is usually cheap for a reason. AVOID.........See: What is Budget Hosting

15) How can I pay for web hosting

Different hosts have different methods. We offer PayPal as a method of paying, its easy and free to setup, plus everybody seems to be using it..........See: How can I pay for web hosting

16) What is Wiki Hosting

A Wiki site can be set up in minutes. It is just an empty Wikipedia style site ready for you to fill with useful information. You can install a few different styles of Wiki from our Softaculous application installer from cPanel on our servers in just a few clicks.

The next task is to .........See: What is Wiki Hosting

17) Can I have other domain names point to my hosting account

You can usually have as many domains pointing to your hosting as you want, we offer unlimited add-on domains. This way you can tell our server in cPanel that you want to point a domain at us, then it gets ready to receive and creates a folder for that site to exist..........See: Can I have other domain names point to my hosting account

18) Can I sell my space to friends

The easiest way to sell space to friends is to become a reseller, although this is the easiest route..... it is far from easy! If you can trust your friends not to take advantage or run malicious scripts then there isnt much of a problem, its when you start to serve the general public that you can g.........See: Can I sell my space to friends

19) Do I have to know how to use Linux to host my website on a Linux server

Usually your hosting provider will have an easy to use control panel on there server so that when you want to make changes you can do so with a few clicks of a graphical user interface. We provide the popular cPanel for this purpose, takes a few minutes to get used to and boasts tons of features..........See: Do I have to know how to use Linux to host my website on a Linux server

20) What are Cookies

These are little chunks of data that a website stores on your computer so that they can easily remember you and your details next time you log onto the site..........See: What are Cookies

21) How often can I update my website

As much as you like! The more often you post fresh original useful content to your site, the higher you will climb in the Search Engine Results.........See: How often can I update my website

22) What is Traceroute

This is where you can find the route that a packet of data has taken. Say you request a page from a server, Traceroute will tell you which 'junctions' it has passed and then you can see the physical path it has taken..........See: What is Traceroute

23) What is cPanel Hosting

cPanel is a brilliant control panel that you can control your hosting with. From it you can set up domains,sub-domains,databases,mail,FTP, install programs and monitor traffic etc.

These are only a few features and some hosts provide special offers as well inside there control panel..........See: What is cPanel Hosting

24) What is Blog Hosting

If you are a serious blogger you may need a dedicated site of your own to keep the world up to date with what you are doing/thinking. When choosing your hosting package, make sure that they have the ability to install blogs such as Wordpress. Our hosting allows you to install 7 different types, as m.........See: What is Blog Hosting

25) What is Affordable Hosting

Affordable hosting is hosting that is of good quality but at a great price. One of the best ways to get 'affordable' hosting is to buy only what you think you are going to use, dont overbuy to much..........See: What is Affordable Hosting

26) What is Adult Hosting

Hosting Porn is a bit of a touchy subject with a lot of companies, some dont like to be associated with the Adult Entertainment industry. We have no problem! Were all human and we understand that most of the traffic online is Adult based anyway. We allow Porn and other Adult hosting, just as long as.........See: What is Adult Hosting

27) What is SEO

Search Engine Optimisation is the art of making your site look as good as it can for the Search Engines. Making sure that they can get all the information needed to rank you as highly as possible is very important. You can easily find companies to do this for you.... we even offer a service on our w.........See: What is SEO

28) Why should I have a dedicated IP

Behind your domain name is an IP, an IP can have many domains that point to separate folders. The search engines and other on-line entities can see this as well as your domain name. If somebody is spamming or doing something illegal on the same IP address as you then you may find that your search en.........See: Why should I have a dedicated IP

29) What is PayPal

A business that will act as a sort of middle man between people and businesses that will handle the money. They also allow you to pay other people or businesses with a debit/credit card. They can also assist in the safety of transactions online by offering fraud protection..........See: What is PayPal

30) What is PHP

Pre-Hypertext-Processing is a way of making a dynamic web page that gets passed to the viewer as a HTML file that they can view in any internet browser. An example is:

(This line lets the server know that the PHP text is finished).........See: What is PHP

31) What do I need to do to put Flash on my website

To put Flash content on your site you need to have a Javascript function ready to handle the hard work embedded somewhere in your site. This can be found by a quick search on Google.

You can however take the simple less professional route. You can embed it into html, but if the user d.........See: What do I need to do to put Flash on my website

32) What is virtual hosting

Virtual Hosting, which is better known as VPS for Virtual Private Server, is where you are assigned a certain amount of resources to run an image of an operating system on a server along with other images. To each image it looks like its own computer, it can be rebooted or even have the operating sy.........See: What is virtual hosting

33) What is a domain name

A domain name is the descriptive address of the location of your website. When you purchase hosting you will be assigned space on a server, this server will have an IP address (192.16.1.1 etc.). Instead of having people type this into there internet browser to visit your site, you can register a dom.........See: What is a domain name

34) What is Web Hosting

Web hosting is the service offered by many companies (good or bad) to provide a safe,reliable and fast loading location for your web application (site etc.) to run from..........See: What is Web Hosting