Website Hosting Information

What is web hosting? The World Wide Web is a massive collection of web sites, all hosted on computers (called web servers) all over the world. The web server (computer) is where your web site resides (stored) is known as the web host. A Web Hosting Company is a business that provided server space and file maintenance for individuals or companies that do not have their own servers.  More important than the computer space that is provided for Web site files is the fast connection to the Internet. Most hosting services offer connections on T-carrier system lines. Typically, an individual business hosting its own site would require a similar connection and it would be expensive. Using a hosting service lets many companies share the cost of a fast Internet connection for serving files. Dedicated hosting is the provision of a dedicated server machine that is dedicated to the traffic to your Web site. Only very busy sites require dedicated hosting, such as CNN and The Weather Channel.

CountryView Studios.com now provides web hosting services exclusively for our customers. Uptime of 99.5% for the websites we handle.  In other words, in terms of foreseeable problems, your website will rarely be down, perhaps less than 20 minutes TOTAL throughout the course of a year, for routine server maintenance. The ability to handle the traffic to your website. Skilled Technical Support. Quick response times for most problems. Minimum of 100 MB of Web Storage Space (most websites use less than 50 Mb of space - large websites will have up to 500 MB of space, or as needed) Minimum of 500 MB of Bandwidth Password Protection if required Website (visitor) Counter if desired Minimum of 5 web-based email addresses, more if needed Audio Capabilities (add music or other sound bites, click here for an example of embedded audio: Give site time to fully load->   Audio Example) Domain Name Registration for your website (separate yearly fee applies, registrar's current price is $12.25 yr) Web Hosting Fees are separate from Web Design / Maintenance. Payment for hosting service is on month to month basis but can be made available on a quarterly Basis. The web hosting service used by CountryView Studios is a third party business and not a affiliated with nor a part of CountryView Studios.