What is Web Hosting?

    The  Web Host provides the place on the Internet where your Web site lives. It’s a cheaper than buying you own server, and you don’t have to hire the technical staff.

What is virtual hosting?

    Virtual hosting refers to hosting several domains on a computer using the same IP address. This allows one machine to share its resources

What is a domain name?

    A domain name represents a unique listing of characters, assigned to an IP address of a server permanently connected to the Internet. To an IP address can be assigned multiple domains. The domain name is unique. There can not be several names like winwinhost.com.

 

What exactly is space and bandwidth/data transfer?

    The amount of data you can transfer (usually monthly).
Data = text,images, video, audio and anything else server transmits the user's browser. Approximately 40,000 of a page view = 1 GB of data transfer.
Web sites that have many visitors (and thus more views) need a high bandwidth.

What is PHP?

    Scripting language. PHP commands are included in the HTML of a Web page and is useful if pages are dynamically generated. This language can add many interactive elements of a website.

What is ASP?

Active Server Pages.
Scripting language developed by Microsoft, which allows use of online databases.

 

What is perl?

Programming language that facilitates data processing and management.

What is MySQL?

Very popular open source relational database.
Unix hosting usually includes MySQL database.

What is MS SQL?

MS SQL: Microsoft SQL Server
Relational database system developed by Microsoft.
Hosting on Windows, usually include MS SQL databases. 

What is FTP?

FTP: File Transfer Protocol.

The method used to upload files to a server. 

What is UNIX?

    The most common operating system used by Web servers. Unix is a text-based operating system, multitasking, designed to be used by multiple people simultaneously.

How can I pay for web hosting?

For web hosting at WinWinHost you can pay with an PayPal account.

What is PayPal?

    The service provided by PayPal.com works as a bank account, the only difference is that through a Paypal account everything is done electronically from the computer through an Internet connection.

 

What are subdomains?

    A subdomain is a division of the Web site, a separate section of each subdomain. For example subdomains for the site "domain.com" may be "suport.domain.com", "clients.ddomain.com", etc..

 

How do I upload my site online?

    Uploading your site can be done in many ways and  the most popular is FTP.
When you create a hosting account, you should been provided with an FTP account. After that you can use a specialized FTP program where you can drag and drop files onto your web host.
Another  way to upload your site is using SSH or uploading files through your browser.

What is uptime?

The time in which a Web site is accessible to users on the Internet (usually displayed as percentage).

 

Why don't I just go with the cheapest hosting?

    Very often it may be that the cheapest hosts will not provide you with all the tools you need and sometimes you have some restrictions about the number of e-mails, number of databases, storage and bandwidth.

 

I am using too much bandwidth! Is there anyway for me to make it less?

With WinWinHost you have unlimited bandwidth.

What is SEO?

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is a process of optimizing a website's positioning in the search engines.