subject: Website Design And Hosting Functions [print this page] Website design and hosting are 2 separate features and can be viewed from three various perspectives. To start with when it comes to smaller sized internet websites, they may be designed and hosted by the same company, or they may be designed by one business and be hosted by another, or they may be developed by one firm and be hosted with many others by a specialist organisation. When it comes to bigger websites various approaches may be followed. Corporations like banks, insurers and airline carriers as an example, might use outsourcing for the design and web hosting service aspects to different organisations, or outsource the design and style and run the web hosting application themselves. There are many mixtures that can be followed, depending on the requirements of the company, firstly on the standards of website design and secondly on the required up-time of any hosting operation.
Website design and hosting, although basically the same for all internet websites, take on diverse levels of great importance as to standards and criteria depending on the size and significance of the website and its internet hosting. If you were a bank that allowed online transactions through your web page, the whole package of design and hosting of such site will take on a diverse perspective and importance to that of your family website offering dahlia bulbs for sale in season. In the matter of the financial institution, the objective of the web page is multi-purpose, highly discreet, requires incredible security measures and is highly image orientated. The creation of such website will take a whole crew to achieve and indeed to continually update and look after. Experts, speakers, copywriters, graphic designers, legal, and security authorities will continue to work on the design and presentation layers alone, while the technological team will contain many specialists and experienced people in the use of criteria, development aids, coding, basic safety, databases, systems routine maintenance and back-up processes. Such a project may take quite a long time and many man months or perhaps years to complete. It'll cost you a lot of cash and the way the bank does business and treats their potential customers will be mirrored in that website. As such the hosting element will be based on the business theory of zero down-time on the website due to the transactional and image importance of the site. As there is no zero downtime guarantee the next phase of 99,999% will probably be the only acceptable standard meaning that the system will only be allowed to be off line for 31.5 mere seconds. A 95% uptime factor will on the other hand allow for eighteen days being down per year. So, the gap between 99,999% and 95% uptime factors, when it comes to time is enormous, and so would be the price difference in maintaining such requirements.
Website design and hosting to the supplier of dahlia bulbs as a leisure activity, clearly will take on a totally different perspective to the illustration of a bank. Such an operation would require the website to act as a running ad for dahlia bulbs to other enthusiasts and perhaps offer a blog for some discussion. The design and development for such website would typically cost as little as possible and hosting could be done for free or as little as R19 per month. Any guaranteed uptime requirement? Well, so long as the site is not down for most of the day, it would be OK as the expected hits per day would be lower.
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