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hosting is provided by different companies
as part of a general Internet access
plan; there are many free and paid
providers offering these services.
Free hosting is generally for individuals
and Businesses are generally restricted
to using a paid Web host to host their
site on. But there are more facilities
than free service given on paid Web
hosts like 24/7 support and personalized
assistance. These also load more quickly
since each server hosts fewer sites,
giving each site a larger proportion
of resources.
This
also depends on the requirement of
the customer, in which application
he want s to create his site, asp,
php dot net etc. A customer also needs
to evaluate the requirements of the
application. Also which is the platform
required windows or linux. Most hosting
providers provide Linux-based web
hosting which offers a wide range
of different software. A typical configuration
for a Linux server is the LAMP Platform.
This includes Linux, Apache, MySQL,
and PHP (or Python or Perl). Usually
there is limited interoperability
between the two, although Linux servers
can integrate with Windows file services
through Samba, and some Linux hosts
provide support for Microsoft FrontPage
server extensions.
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