Web Hosting

Whether you already have a website designed, or not (visit Blue Streak Imaging and Multimedia for web design), we can help you with setting up a domain name and can serve as a web host for your website.

What is a domain name?

A domain name is what is typed into an Internet browser to access a specific Web site. (ex. www.yourcompany.com)

Everyone that has a website needs a web host. A web hosting company makes it possible for your site to be accessed by everyone else. You can make the best website anyone's ever seen sitting at your own computer but unless you don't have anyone to host it, it will never be accessible to everyone else. Hosting is the space you will pay for to have your site on the Internet, so others can see and use your web pages.

What type of hosting should you consider? You want a hosting provider that is always "up". The meaning of always "up" is that any time your web site name is typed in, a reader should find your pages, and not a message stating the website is unavailable. A hosting provider that does not provide accessibility 24 hours a day and every day of the year is not a hosting provider you should consider.

Hosting is completed using servers, which are additional computers, networked to the Internet, holding millions of pages allowing people from around the world to view those pages. The hosting servers must be fast, continually working, and should be backed up by other computers to allow that constant ability to provide pages on demand. The permanent Internet connection allows anyone to type in your pages, to see your website when demanded.