Web Hosting for Texas Business

Web Hosting Costs

Web hosting costs depend on the following:

1. The amount of file storage space you need. The more pages and image and other kinds of files that make up your website, the more file storage you will need.

2. The amount of web server traffic (bandwidth) your website generates. Bandwidth usage is a calculation of the number of people who are accessing your website and the amount of time they spend reading your page. Like long-distance 1-800 telephone service, you pay for the amount of time people spend calling you up. The more popular your website becomes, the more bandwidth you will use and the more your web hosting will cost.

3. The special features you require: email service, database storage, shopping carts, etc. will also cost more.

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Web Hosting - What is it? Why do you need it?

A website is a collection of individual files. Each page is a file. Each image is a file. All the download files on your website -- press releases, company brochures, sales flyers -- are files. Files take up computer space, whether on your on personal computer or on a web server.

Without web hosting, all you have are a bunch of files on a personal computer with nowhere to go. For the world to see those files on the Internet, they have to be loaded to a web server, which as the name implies, is a computer that serves up those files whenever anyone clicks on a link to the file or asks for it by name or IP address.

Many large companies maintain their own servers for internal and external network files and hire computer people to watch over everything -- to make sure the internal files don't go out on the Internet, to make sure the internal and external server computers are operational, to backup the files on the servers for when it (and it usually will) fails, etc., etc. Smaller businesses and individuals usually do not have the resources to hire a computer staff or buy server computers, so they rent server space from hosting companies. Some businesses rent external server space to backup all their business files. Some businesses only rent external server space for Internet website files.

We're a small business and we prefer not to deal with server issues, so we buy web hosting server space for our own website. We consider costs and reliability carefully when we choose a hosting service for our business. We also choose hosting carefully for client websites because when we build a website, we want the world to see it 24/7/365.

We also keep in mind that server space is an ongoing business expense, so we design web pages for economy of file size and help clients choose the right amount of server hosting space and bandwidth so they don't pay more than necessary.

For additional information on how we might help you with web hosting, contact info@texaswebhouston.com.