When you want to make your website online then you have to choose a website hosting company which is the important way of making your website online on the internet. This is basically one of the most important factors for a website’s success. There are different packages that a web hosting company offers to its clients and the clients have to choose according to the website’s traffic and what all kind of user’s are going to visit your website.

As the web industry is growing at large and there are lots of opportunities for users. Reseller and cloud hosting are the two most famous hosting plans that are creating a boom in the industry.

Reseller hosting is one of the simplest hosting plan that enables the user to earn money. In this the user is given the permission to further resell its web space to other users. Once the user has decided he has the ability to set his own hosting prices and sell it according to what the user has asked him and the set the plan according to what are the requirements of that particular user. The important part of this plan is that there is no issue on the technical aspects that means there is not much understanding needed for the technical issues. In this all the management is done by the main web host.

Cloud hosting is the latest plan that is present in the web hosting industry. In this the user has the processing power on a number of interconnected servers. The user only has to pay for the resources that he is using very often. The user has the power to access the bandwidth, memory and processing power. Cloud server offers maximum level of security using firewall guard and inaccessible disk space. These servers are usually suitable for business seeking for better performance without high costs.

Windows and Linux are the most commonly used operating systems used today. Most of the hosting companies offer windows hosting, Linux hosting and java hosting plans to its customers.

Directory submission is one of the best strategies to get popularity to your site by submitting your hyperlink to the list of service providers. It is like submitting your website to yellow pages like web directories from where you can get clients for your website. It is basically a link building process which involves submission of links to a web directory. It increases your site visibility. It also helps in getting back links to your web site.

Directory submission will increase your site visibility on the major search engines and return it will help to increase your web traffic. It creates back links for your web site and the more back links you get the high will be your rank in the search engines. Many search engines do crawling through directories and when you have links submitted to the directories you can find spiders reaching your website with the help of these links and helps in indexing of your website.

With the help of directory submission you will be able to get your targeted audience and will give a lot of profit to your company and also helps to increase your web site traffic.

Directory submission is done in two ways: Automatic and manual submission. Basically we prefer the manual submission first because when the submission is done manually the service provider weighs the condition and then act accordingly. In this we can submit a limited amount of directories everyday which helps in proper uploading and better targeted submission.

There are three types if directories in which we can submit:

Paid: For listing these we need to pay.

Niche: It helps in providing a link from related niche with relevant content.

Free: Web administrators do not charge for listing in these directories.

Benefits of Directory Submission are:

• Helps in increasing the back links.
• Increases the chance of being indexed by search engines.
• Increase the web traffic.
• If anchor text is applied then it helps to create a hyperlink for your web site.
• With the help of directory submission we can also exchange links with other websites for gaining the popularity in the market.

A website, also written as Web site, or simply site, is a set of related WebPages containing content, including text, video, music, audio, images, etc. A website is hosted on at least one web server, accessible via a network such as the Internet or a private local area network through an Internet address known as a Uniform Resource Locator. All publicly accessible websites collectively constitute the World Wide Web.

Website builders are tools that allow the construction of websites without manual code editing. They fall into two categories: on-line proprietary tools provided by web hosting companies, typically intended for users to build their private site; and software which runs on a computer, creating pages off-line and which can then publish these pages on any host.
Later software was written to help design web pages and by 1998 Dreamweaver had been established as the industry leader; however some have criticized the quality of the code produced by such software as being overblown and reliant on tables. As the industry moved towards W3C standards, Dreamweaver and others were criticized for not being compliant. Compliance has improved over time, but many professionals still prefer to write optimized markup by hand.
A website contains webpage; a webpage is a document, typically written in plain text interspersed with formatting instructions of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML, XHTML). A webpage may incorporate elements from other websites with suitable markup anchors.
WebPages are accessed and transported with the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), which may optionally employ encryption (HTTP Secure, HTTPS) to provide security and privacy for the user of the webpage content. The user’s application, often a web browser, renders the page content according to its HTML markup instructions onto a display terminal.
The pages of a website can usually be accessed from a simple Uniform Resource Locator (URL) called the homepage. The URLs of the pages organize them into a hierarchy, although hyper linking between them conveys the reader’s perceived site structure and guides the reader’s navigation of the site.
Some websites require a subscription to access some or all of their content. Examples of subscription websites include many business sites, parts of news websites, academic journal websites, gaming websites, file-sharing websites, message boards, web-based email, social networking websites, websites providing real-time stock market data, and websites providing various other services.
Many web hosting companies and domain sellers offer website builder programs and templates in their packages. If you use the website builder provided by your web host, be sure to try out the many different templates offered so you can more effectively relay your web page’s image to your viewers.

Most graphical operating systems have a browser installed by default. The basic idea is to first establish a connection with server and your computer and then upload the files.

1. Open your web browser and enter ftp://username@domainname.com in the address bar.
2. You will be prompted to enter the password for this account
3. Once you successfully login you will see a listing of the files in your website on server.
4. You can now drag files from your local computer into this folder to upload files to server or drag files from this folder to your local computer to download files off your website.

If you require a different home page name (called a “default document”), you can update it through the Control Panel or technical support person accommodate your needs. Please let it know what name you require. In most cases it is easier to rename your home page to one of the documents above. Please note that some file names (such as .asp and .shtml) are reserved for specific types of web applications. If you are unsure of which file extension to use, you can probably safely use .htm or .html.

Also, these documents carry an “order of precedence” as they are listed above. For example, if you have both an index.html file and a default.html file, the index.html file will show up when viewing your site with the domain name or IP address.

In computing, an internet space defines a range of discrete addresses, each of which may correspond to a network host.
Internet spaces are created by combining enough uniquely identified qualifiers to make an address unambiguous. Components of an internet space may be the same but unless all are identical, the locations will be different.
An internet space usually provides (or allows) a partitioning to several regions according to mathematical structure it has. Some nested domains hierarchy appears in the case of directed ordered tree as for the Domain Name System or a directory structure. In the Internet the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) allocates ranges of IP addresses to various registries in order to enable them to each manage their parts of the global Internet address space.
The user-friendly interface of the Internet is based on a multi-layer global network system connecting hundreds of millions of computers worldwide. This system is comprised of multiple local and global networks serving private, public, business, academic and government purposes.
The Uniform resource locator, popular as URL, is the global web address of documents, including web pages or image files, and programs such as Java applets. It is aimed at identifying the location of a document or a program available on the web and specifies the mechanism for accessing it through a web browser.
Internet addresses can be linked to the objects, and the final scenes can be published on the Web. Internet space is used to upload your website on the internet or in simple words we can say that if a person or company wants his website to be accessed on the internet then he or she has to buy internet space on the internet this is called IP address and is unique for all.
Uses of addresses include, but are not limited to the following:
* Various kinds of network host addresses in computer networks;
* Uniform resource locators in the Internet.
Another common feature of internet spaces is mapping and translation, often forming numerous layers. This usually means that some higher-level address must be translated to lower-level ones in some way.
The Domain Name System maps its names to (and from) network-specific addresses (usually IP addresses), which in turn may be mapped to link layer network addresses via Address Resolution Protocol. Also, network address translation may occur on the edge of different IP spaces, such as a local area network and the Internet

It sounds like maybe the PDO extension isn’t installed in your PHP.

Run phpinfo on your server to see if you have PDO enable, if so add this in your php.ini if you are on shared hosting. This solve my problem on my side !

• create a blank file in your drupal or server root named ‘phpinfo.php’
• add the following code into the file

<?php
phpinfo();
?>

• go to the file via a browser, e.g. yoursite.com/phpinfo.php
• look (ctrl/cmd + F) for the ‘Configuration File (php.ini) Path’, you’ll find the location of your php.ini file there

If you are unable to acces this through FTP/cPanel/…, create a file named php.ini in your drupal root folder and add the following lines of code:

extension=”pdo.so”
extension=”pdo_mysql.so”
upload_max_filesize = 10M
post_max_size =64M
memory_limit = 64M
upload_tmp_dir = 64M
max_execution_time = 128

Note : that you may want to tweak these values depending on your needs.

A shared web hosting service or virtual hosting service or derive host refers to a web hosting service where many websites reside on one web server connected to the Internet. Each site has its own section/place on the server, to keep it separate from other sites. This is generally the most economical option for hosting, as many people share the overall cost of server maintenance.
In general shared hosting will be inappropriate for users who require extensive software development outside what the hosting provider supports. Almost all applications intended to be on a standard web server work fine with a shared web hosting service. But on the other hand, shared hosting is cheaper than other types of hosting such as dedicated server hosting. Shared hosting usually has usage limits and hosting providers should have extensive reliability features in place.
Shared hosting typically uses a web-based control panel system, such as cPanel, Plesk, H-Sphere or one of many other control panel products. Most of the large hosting companies use their own custom developed control panel.
In shared hosting, the provider is generally responsible for managing servers, installing server software, security updates, technical support, and other aspects of the service. Most servers are based on the Linux operating system and LAMP (software bundle), which is driven by the reliability and security of open source software such as Linux and Apache. Some providers offer Microsoft Windows-based or FreeBSD-based solutions but both have same functionality.
There are thousands of shared hosting providers. They range from small design firms to multi-million-dollar providers with hundreds of thousands of customers. A large portion of the shared web hosting market is driven through pay per click advertising or Affiliate programs.
Shared web hosting can also be done privately by sharing the cost of running a server in a colocation centre; this is called cooperative hosting.

Shared hosting is of two types name-based and IP-based

In IP-based virtual hosting, also called dedicated IP hosting, each virtual host has a different IP address. The web server is configured with multiple physical network interfaces, or virtual network interfaces on the same physical interface. The web server software uses the IP address the client connects to in order to determine which web site to show the user.
In name-based virtual hosting, also called shared IP hosting, the virtual hosts serve multiple hostnames on a single machine with a single IP address. This is possible because when a web browser requests a resource from a web server using HTTP/1.1 it includes the requested hostname as part of the request. The server uses this information to determine which web site to show the user.
One of the most obvious setbacks of shared hosting is the price factor. Since it is very cheap, many people will not care about the disadvantages on their websites and they will want to bandwagon into these services. Due to large number of people using the services, the amount of resources that may be made available to individual users is usually limited. If one of the peer sites is using excessive amounts of the server resources, you will be facing trouble in terms of usage of your own website.
Another problem that is associated with shared hosting is the sharing of IP addresses. If you share an IP address with a company that has experienced some trouble with internet search providers, your website will also be automatically disqualified from the services of the search providers. The customer service that is provided by the companies providing the shared hosting services will also be wanton. This is because most of the companies will place greater emphasis on clients who opt for managed or individual hosting. This is because most of these clients bring in larger amounts of money and will naturally have priority.
Shared hosting plans are generally the easiest and most economical for personal and small business websites. A lot of e-commerce sites, blogs, professional portfolios, and other small sites are hosted on shared hosting.