Canadian Web Hosting

The Internet is a different medium from othersapplications. The web hosts could be parent hosts,
like print and TV, which allow limited participationresellers, free hosts, and cheap hosts.
for users and no empowerment at all. TheTo host a site, the companies charge fees
Internet allows any individual to broadcast his orstarting at $5 CAD/month and domains for $10
her opinion and conduct transactions with anotherCAD/year. The services usually come in plans
entity. A website is a page stored in a drive thatwith many features. The services include support
can be accessed through the Internet. Antwenty-four hours a day, seven days a week,
individual or entity can use one's own dedicatedreliability 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 inA web hosting service is to be decided based on
which a company rents space in its drive to hostthe purpose of website. A website for individual
the web pages of its clients. The dotcom burstpurpose may not certain e-commerce features;
was preceded by a mad rush to start websitesbusinesses may need multiple email accounts, and
for any sort of business without strongrisk-management services such as spam, virus
fundamentals. The dotcom v.2 has matured withprotection, and data backup.
the upgrade of user-friendly technology andA good host can be decided by the speed of
e-commerce. This is illustrated by the number ofother 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 dominatedhost from anywhere, it is better to have a host
by number of players providing a host of servicesserver from the region where the customers are
such as domain name registration, disk space, andlocated so that the there are no delays in
bandwidth. Besides, they provide email accounts,downloads and page visits.
data transfer, mySQL database, and other