Basic Knowledge about Web Hosting

It is said that things are always difficult at the start. Just like the saying, web hosting beginners may come across various difficulties in website building. The following are some common questions asked by web hosting beginners and corresponding answers. Hope it is helpful.

What does Directory Listing Denied mean?
If it pops out the prompt when you are visiting a website: Directory Listing Denied. This Virtual Directory does not allow contents to be listed.

It means that the server cannot find default home page in the specified directory. For example: if you enter domain name to visit your web host and it pops out such prompt, you need to check whether there are such default home page as index.htm, index.html, index.asp, default.asp and default.html, under www directory.

Once you opened your web host service, the system would automatically generate the following default home pages: index.htm, index.html, index.asp, default.asp and default.html. The home page of your website must be one of them or you can login web host management panel to add default home page file name.

Traffic limit
It is to limit the total access traffic of the website in a month. If the traffic of your website has reached the limit, your website will be closed automatically and reopen in next month.

To avoid your website being closed due to large traffic, you can update your web host or increase the traffic of it. The traffic of 10G can support about 100 online visitors and 1200 visitors per day.
The advantage of this solution is that it will be convenient for both web hosting service provider and the user to check daily and monthly traffic of the website. You can also analyze which files attract more traffic with the information provided by logs and access statistics. The disadvantage of this solution is that it is much complicated to implement effectively. You have to save daily access logs and summarize it everyday. You also have to design a program to automatically close and open the website which has reached its traffic limit. Therefore, small and medium sized web hosting providers, who are in lack of technical strength, cannot support such solution.