Storage size is the amount of hard disk space that your hosting company offers for your web pages. All files which comprise your web page (documents, graphics, animations and others) must fit into this space.

Bandwidth is the amount of data your website visitors can download from your website. You can calculate your bandwidth requirements basing on how big your pages are, and how much people you expect to visit your website.

Admin panel is a control center of your hosting account. It allows you to manage all aspects of your server, including:

The basic answer is: yes. There are however many limitations you should take into consideration:

Nameservers are special computers accessible on the Internet which tell where a website is located. They are responsible for a special process called resolving. During this process, a domain name of your website is taken, and a physical address is obtained. This is similar to a yellow pages directory - when you want to find the company called "Joe's Computers", you look in a directory and see that it's located on 41, Main Street. Then you can go to this address and visit the store.

There are basically two types of hosting service: shared and dedicated. They differ in terms of performance and price. Their characteristics are as follows:

When you order a dedicated server, you can choose between managed and unmanaged servers. There are big differences between them, so you should consider them when choosing a hosting service.

Among many parameters your hosting service can have, one of the most important is the operating system the server is running. The operating system determines what kind of scripts can be run on the server, what databases are supported and so on. There are three major operating system types used on servers:

A shopping cart is special software that allows your site's visitors to buy some goods and pay for them. This is a similar functionality to a real shopping cart in your mall, where you can put various goods you want to buy, and then go to the counter and pay for them It is a great feature when you want to have an online shop or other commercial website.

Today, Internet is not a very safe place. Information which is transmitted through it can be sometimes read by other people. There are many ways that malicious people (known as crackers) can learn the information visitors are exchanging with your website, and obtain sensitive information (for example, passwords or credit card numbers). It could also be possible that they presented to unaware customers a modified version of your website hosted on their server, in order to collect some important information from them.