 "What are the criteria of a 'home' for our website?". "What are the facilities to consider in choosing a web hosting?".
The above questions are often to ask about how to choose a 'home' for the web site. We can also analogize in our daily life about choosing a home. What are your considerations when buying a home? There are many things, for example: a safe environment, comfortable, free flooding, good price and affordable, easily accessible location, a minimal travel time, complete environmental facilities (health facilities, sports facilities, business facilities, educational facilities, religious facilities , and so on). That does can be applied for a 'home' of your website. Let's see one-by-one as follows:
What is a 'Home' For?
What is a "home" you need for? It is a place for you to stay? It is for your business? Or it is simply just for your investment? And what are the facilities we need to consider in choosing a 'home' for your website?
| Facility |
Description |
| Space |
The amount of storage space on the hard disk |
| Control Panel |
An application which is given to the owner of the web site (or a person who authorized) to perform administrative tasks of the site, such as DNS settings, user settings, passwords, etc. This control panel is usually provided in a form that can be accessed by the web browser (web based). |
| Unlimited data transfer |
The unlimited in-and-out of transfer data of the website. (do not be misunderstood with bandwidth capacity). |
| Sub Domain |
Sub-domain is a "inherited" names of your own domain name. If you have domains www.cobacoba.com (can also be written as cobacoba.com), then the sub-domain might be: sedang.cobacoba.com, mau.cobacoba.com, etc. |
| POP Email |
To access email using the usual applications such as Eudora, Netscape. |
| WebMail |
Email facility which can be accessed via a web browser (Firefox, Opera, Safari, Microsoft Explorer, etc.). YahooMail, GMail, Hotmail, etc. are good examples of a web-based email. |
| E-mail Autoresponder |
Email response facility that is done automatically. The content of the email replies can be adjusted by the owner of the domain name. |
| Email Forwarding |
E-mail forwarding facility to another email address. For example, the email send to
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can also be forwarded to
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. So every incoming mail to
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will be forwarded to
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automatically. |
| Telnet |
Remote user access using the Telnet application. Usually done to change the configuration/user settings, server configuration, test the program on the server, etc. Only the domain owner (or authorized) which is usually given to this facility. Very important for web developers. |
| FTP |
File Transfer Protocol, is an application to store or retrieve files by remote access. |
| WAP |
Wireless Application Protocol, is an application that allows certain cell phones display the contents of a website. |
| SSI |
Server Side Include |
| SSL |
Secure Socket Layer is the protection of the contents of a site with a ruffled transferred data communications over the Internet. Highly recommended at all for security critical data and confidential on e-commerce sites, such as credit card numbers, bank account, etc. |
| CGI-Bin |
is a folder on the server that usually contains application modules that can be accessed by the user. These applications are usually created by using PERL, C, PHP, etc., programming language. |
| CGI-Form |
A facility that uses an application form, which was usually provided in the CGI-Bin folder. |
| Guestbook CGI |
Guest Book facility, so that visitors can fill out and read the impressions, comments, or suggestions from other visitors about our site. |
| FrontPage Extension |
An additional application that allows a site using MS FrontPage application to run in accordance with the design. This facility is usually required when the site was designed using MS FrontPage application. |
| Shopping Cart |
Its function is similar to the stroller of groceries when we go shopping at the supermarket. |
| Database Application server |
Database application servers such as MySQL, Oracle, etc. It is used when a site need a database to support its operations.
The programming language supported these facilities are usually required, especially for those whose job as a web developer. Common language used is usually PERL, C, PHP, Python, etc. |
| Virtual Domain |
In addition to domain names that we have it, we can also create another domain name placed only on one server. This facility is only required for the web developer. |
| Mailing List |
Group communication using email as the means, and usually led by a moderator |
| Counter |
Facilities counters that count the number of visitors to our site. |
From the above facilities, which do you really need? It is depending on how you use that's 'home'.
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