Internet and Web Hosting

An Internet hosting service is a service that runs Internet servers, letting companies and individuals to serve data to the Internet. There are different levels of services and different kinds of services provided.

A general type of hosting is web hosting. Many hosting providers offer a joint range of services. Web hosting services also offer e-mail hosting service, for instance. DNS hosting service is usually packed with domain name registration.

Types of Internet hosting provide a server where the customers can run anything they want (including web servers and other servers) and have Internet connections with good upstream bandwidth.

Web hosting service lets companies and individuals provide their own websites available through the World Wide Web. Web hosts are organizations that provide space on their servers for use by their clients. As a rule, they also provide Internet connectivity, generally in a data center.

Web Development

Web development implies any actions connected with designing a WWW or an intranet website. This can include web design, web content development, e-commerce business development, web server configuration and client-side/server-side coding. Most web professionals, though, generally refer “web development” to the non-design features of website construction, for instance coding and markup writing. Web development can vary from designing a simple static page of plain text to the most compound web-based internet applications, electronic businesses, or social network services.

Large firms and establishments can employ web development teams consisting of hundreds of workers whereas smaller companies may only hire a sole permanent or contracting webmaster. Basically, web development is a joint action between departments rather than the dominant of a special department.

Web Design, Wap Site Development

WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) was presented in 2001 as an open international standard for wireless communication applications. With the help of WAP browser plug-in, it enables access to the Internet from a portable device (phone, PDA, etc.). Today, more than 70 per cent mobile phones are equipped with built-in WAP browsers, which allow viewing WAP-sites, and the number of such phones is constantly growing.

WAP browsers provide the same services as usual computer Internet browsers do, but simplified to function within the limitations of mobile devices.

Today, Wireless Application Protocol is applied for most mobile web resources in the world (WAP sites).

WAP site is a special site developed in WML (Wireless Markup Language). WML is a format of presenting information as a page with minimum text and graphics. Therefore, WAP sites hold only the most important data: information about a company, news, catalogue with short descriptions of goods and services, contact information, etc. Some WAP sites also provide the function of ordering goods or services online.

The popularity of WAP sites is steadily growing and, according to analytics, their number will be more than 20 per cent of all Internet resources by the end of 2006.

Moreover, WAP technology makes it possible to
• e-mail
• track stock market prices
• view sports results
• look through news headlines
• download music
with a cell phone or PDA in one’s disposal only.