Hosting is one of the most often neglected aspects of a web presence.

• Can you afford to find out how much traffic your server can handle?
• After spending time and money to develop your web presence, do you not deserve the peace of mind that your clients will be able to access it on demand?

Part of web hosting is the maintenance, the effort to keep your site up and running without interruptions. Is it necessary for your site to be up and running, ready to serve customers 24 hours a day?

Of course. Does your web host everything possible to ensure that? Frequent backups? Backup generators? Bandwidth, the amount of information that can be transmitted at a time, will be crucial for the success of your online efforts.

Is your web server ready to serve ten surfers at the same time? How about ten-thousand? Does your business need up-to-date information on how many people view your pages? And where they are coming from?

Each registered Domain Name is a nickname for an IP address. Internet software, such as web browsers, need to know the IP address of the remote server from which it is trying to download files or web pages. When you type a web site address in your web browser, such as http://Ask4, your web browser will translate "Ask4" to the IP address of Beach Systems' web server, 208.56.123.38

So, if you want to launch your own web site, you need three things:
A web server, which you can lease from a web hosting company like Ask4Solutions,

The IP address or DNS of your web server, and A Domain Name which people can use to reach your web server and send you e-mail.