| The Internet is a different medium from others | | | | applications. The web hosts could be parent hosts, |
| like print and TV, which allow limited participation | | | | resellers, free hosts, and cheap hosts. |
| for users and no empowerment at all. The | | | | To host a site, the companies charge fees |
| Internet allows any individual to broadcast his or | | | | starting at $5 CAD/month and domains for $10 |
| her opinion and conduct transactions with another | | | | CAD/year. The services usually come in plans |
| entity. A website is a page stored in a drive that | | | | with many features. The services include support |
| can be accessed through the Internet. An | | | | twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, |
| individual or entity can use one's own dedicated | | | | reliability features as a money-back guarantee, |
| website or use other sites for promotion. | | | | and guaranteed uptime. |
| Web hosting is a term that describes a process in | | | | A web hosting service is to be decided based on |
| which a company rents space in its drive to host | | | | the purpose of website. A website for individual |
| the web pages of its clients. The dotcom burst | | | | purpose may not certain e-commerce features; |
| was preceded by a mad rush to start websites | | | | businesses may need multiple email accounts, and |
| for any sort of business without strong | | | | risk-management services such as spam, virus |
| fundamentals. The dotcom v.2 has matured with | | | | protection, and data backup. |
| the upgrade of user-friendly technology and | | | | A good host can be decided by the speed of |
| e-commerce. This is illustrated by the number of | | | | other customers' websites and the number of |
| registrations in Canada after 2002. | | | | complaints vs. benefits. Although it is cheap to |
| The Canadian web hosting market is dominated | | | | host from anywhere, it is better to have a host |
| by number of players providing a host of services | | | | server from the region where the customers are |
| such as domain name registration, disk space, and | | | | located so that the there are no delays in |
| bandwidth. Besides, they provide email accounts, | | | | downloads and page visits. |
| data transfer, mySQL database, and other | | | | |