What is Website Hosting?
Website Hosting is a service provided by companies, such as IPHOST, that offer space on internet-connected servers to store and make websites accessible. Without website hosting, the website could not be viewed by users on the internet, as servers allow the sending and receiving of data between the users' computers and the website.
Let's take an example to better understand how website hosting works. Imagine you have created a website for your business and want it to be accessible to visitors on the internet. To do this, you will need a Website Hosting service provided by a company like IPHOST.
The process involves the following steps:
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Choose a Website Hosting plan: IPHOST offers various hosting plans, such as shared hosting, VPS, or dedicated hosting. Each plan comes with different resources, features, and prices, depending on your needs.
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Register a domain name: A domain name is your website's unique web address, such as www.yourbusiness.ro. Register this domain name through IPHOST or another company that offers domain registration services.
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Upload your website's files: After you've obtained a Website Hosting plan and a domain name, you'll gain access to a control panel (cPanel) for managing your account. Here you can upload your website's files (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, images, etc.) to the hosting company's server.
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Configure DNS: Set up the Domain Name Servers (DNS) to associate your domain name with IPHOST's Website Hosting server. This ensures that when someone types the domain name into a browser, they will be directed to the corresponding server and will see the content of your site.
Once these steps are completed, your website will be hosted on IPHOST's servers and will be accessible to visitors from all over the world.
Want your website hosted outside the European Union? See our offshore web hosting in Chișinău, Moldova.
Where are the servers?
Our web hosting plans run in our own data centers in Chișinău, Moldova and Bucharest, Romania. From the Philippines the latency is about 285 ms, higher than a server in Manila, so this hosting suits international projects, European audiences, forex, VPNs and development rather than a site whose visitors are all in the Philippines.
Domain and hosting in one plan
Pay for your hosting yearly and your domain is free for the first year. With BasicBoost you can choose a .com, .net, .org, .eu or .md domain; from PremiumPower up, any extension we sell is included, including a .ph domain for your Filipino business. From the second year, the domain renews at the normal price.