A Content Management System, is a web application used for managing
Business website and web content. A CMS supports the creation, management, distribution and publishing of information. It also may provide the ability to manage the structure of the site, the appearance of the published pages, and the navigation provided to the users.
CMS provides you with a simple, non-technical way of updating your Business website. This is typically (but not always) done via a web-based interface that works much like Word does.
Just point-and-click, type in the new words, and hit save. Your site is instantly updated. Equally easy is adding new pages, deleting old ones, or restructuring the site to match your new business model. You can now concentrate on the content, not the technology.
Hosting your Business website
Choosing a hosting company and appropriate hosting package is usually a decision that is made in consultation with your web developer. After all, they know what tools and technologies have been used to create the website and what the requirements are for hosting. Some things to think about when choosing a host:
What features do I need?
• Amount of storage space on the server (size of website)
• Amount of transfer/bandwidth – how many users will be interacting with my website and how big are the files they will transfer?
• Technologies that are installed on the server – there are two major types of hosting packages: Windows and Linux/Apache hosting – and there are a lot of different programming languages that may need to be installed for certain websites (eg. php, pear, pearl, asp, .NET Framework, mysql, etc)
• What is the average downtime of the server? Where will I Host?
• You can host anywhere in the world
• US and UK have the largest companies and cheapest hosting but also the most intrusive/disruptive legal issues.
Put it in YOUR NAME!
• Even if your web developer sets it up for you, make sure the hosting account is registered under your business name (like everything else related to your website).