Your hosting solution must be able to provide a fast, secure and reliable service.
At Nexus we take you through this process
and recommend the best plan that suits your Internet presence.
You don’t need to worry about the points outlined below, we take care of them and match
the Best Value Plan with your hosting requirements.
Web Hosting allows individuals and organisations to make their website
accessible globally.
A website needs to be hosted on a server to become available on the Internet.
It involves housing, serving and maintaining files for visitors to view the content of
your site.
Technical Issues
You need to make choices about the various technologies you could use when you are considering
your website hosting options.
Server operating systems
These are the core operating systems that enable the web server to run. The most common types are:
- Unix
- Linux
- Microsoft Windows
Web server software
This software sits on top of the operating system and actually runs the web hosting services.
It deals with all elements of hosting the web pages, including requests from visitors to view them,
and running programs or scripts.
The most common types of web server software are:
- Apache
- Microsoft Internet Info Services (IIS)
Web Authoring languages
These are the software languages used to develop applications on the website.
Examples of these include:
- HTML (HyperText Markup Language) – a programming language used in the creation
of simple web pages.
- CGI (Common Gateway Interface) scripts that are used to produce dynamic and
interactive web pages. Examples include JSP, PHP, ASP, Cold Fusion and Perl.
Application development tools
These are types of web editor software used to design and develop web pages incorporating features
such as graphics, multimedia and user interactivity. Examples include Microsoft FrontPage.
Databases
Database technologies are used to store large quantities of information that can be used to
update information on your website. The solutions available to you will depend upon the
volume of information you wish to hold and the likely web traffic that the system will
have to support.
Examples of high volume, high traffic database systems include:
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Oracle
- PostgreSQL
Examples of smaller volume systems handling lower web traffic are:
