Hosting

Web hosting refers to services that provide space for users to store their website content.

DNS, or Domain Name Server, hosting is like a phone book that maps your easy to read domain to the IP address for the server with your website or emails. When you purchase your domain name and web hosting account with us, the DNS Hosting is automatic. If you already have a domain, then DNS Hosting will be required to map your domain to the IP address for your web hosting and/or e-mail accounts.

Diskspace is the total physical amount of hard drive space a website may use at any one time.

Bandwidth is the amount of information that can be transferred from the server to an internet browser. This is set to a certain amount of bandwidth per month. As an example, if you had a file on your site that was 1Mb and you have 1Gb of bandwidth, your website visitors could download the file 1000 total times.

cPanel is a provides a graphical tool designed to simplify the process of hosting a web site. It gives you control of your hosting environment.

Shell Access, SSH (secure shell), is remote command line access to a server. It is particularly useful for developers of your website - allowing them to complete actions quicker.