While doing some random Internet surfing, I ran across this article from the WHIR. Sometimes the easiest questions out there are the hardest ones to find answers to. The folks at the WHIR do a good job at explaining exactly how a Web hosting server does what it does so well.

You have probably come to this site to find a company that provides Web servers or Web hosting services. But do you actually know how these hosting machines work? It’s a good idea to know a little bit about the product or service you are searching for before you begin your quest.

First, it’s important to note that this is a two-sided story. Web servers are responsible for storing and exchanging information with other machines. Because of this, at least two participants are required for each exchange of information: a client, which requests the information, and a server, which stores it. Each side also requires a piece of software to negotiate the exchange of data; in the case of the client, a browser like Netscape or Internet Explorer is used.

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Here are also a few more resources for those of you who might want to know a little more about the Web hosting magic that happens inside that server that your Web site is hosted:

Google definitions for a web Hosting server

Listen as Google explains what a Web hosting server is from several diffrent sources!

Wikipedia’s definition of a Web hosting server

Yet another good definition of what a Web hosting server is and what it does.

Remember me preaching a few weeks back about how more Web hosts need to start blogging? My article in issue 11 of Ping! Zine covered the topic as well. It seems like people over at HostRocket must have been listening to me. Okay, so I don’t really know where the inspiration came from for them to start up a blog, but I am happy to see that they are doing it. Read more »

Is this the future of Web hosting or just another market in which Web hosts can make more money? VoIP (Voice Over IP) seems to be growing more and more each and every day. Even HostRocket.com has jumped into the VoIP game (link via the WHIR). Is this just a fad or is there more money to be made here than in traditional Web hosting services?

Web hosting provider HostRocket.Com announced on Monday it has launched ViaTalk in all 50 US states. Using VoIP telephony, the service enables HostRocket to provide residential and commercial users with telephone service via broadband Internet connections.

HostRocket says the ViaTalk service is a high quality and affordable product, compared to traditional switched telephone service.

Customers can transfer their existing telephone numbers to the service and use existing phones. Customers can also access a variety of advanced features normally not available with other services, including Enhanced E911 service and Web-based access to most calling features.

More Web hosts are jumping on the band waggon, that much is for sure.

On today’s show, we will be talking about how you can make Web hosting more sexy, the result of too many lawyers in the Web hosting world, the biggest Web hosting company out there today and so much more. More fun than eating a bucket of fried chicken on the forth of July, the Web Hosting Show, episode 18 is on the air.

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Well it’s official, I have turned comments back on for the Web Hosting Show’s Web site! So feel free to comment on anything that you find cool or if you find yourself wanting to add something to one of the Web Hosting Show’s show note pages, go ahead and do so in comment form! The reason I turned them off before is all that I was getting was ads from different people, and if that happens again… well I will probably be turning it off again. So give me your feedback directly, one on one! I’ll be waiting to hear from you!

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Some changes on how I publish my articles, content, podcasts and more is coming!

First things first, I want to apologize to all the folks that are mad that this is posted on both my Mitchelaneous Web site and the Web Hosting Show’s Web site as well. Figured I’d just get everything out of the way in one post instead of trying to write up two separate posts on just about the same information. Read more »

Want to see some photos of the biggest event in Web hosting since the invention of the Web hosting server itself? Then come check out the HostingCon 2005 photo gallery! Read more »