Web Hosting Unveiled

If you desire to create a website and render it visible to the whole world, it needs to be located on a web server. The name of this service is web hosting.

Host your web site at home or in another place

You could host your web site on your own personal computer at home or at work, on a computer which belongs to a friend of yours, and so on. If it is a site for experimenting purposes, there would be no real reason for you to seek a more dependable web hosting solution than that. If you want to build an actual web site, however, which will be visible to multiple persons and you want to make it reliable, you will also need a reliable server where you will host it.

Why do you require a hosting server for your web site?

When you have a site, it is located on a physical machine. That physical machine has its own physical address called Internet Protocol address. Writing the Internet Protocol address of the physical machine in your web browser's address bar, though, is not the best and simplest way to open a web site. That is how and why domain names came into existence and why you need one for your web site. So, to launch your website, you require a domain name of your own and a server to host your site on.

Hosting your site on your own

If you are an IT specialist and understand how to work with a hosting server, you can have a web hosting server of your very own and host your site on it. This will allow you to exert complete authority over the physical server, to implement server configuration changes and to apply software updates yourself rather than having to rely on the data center staff. The negative side, however, is that you will need to guarantee the uptime of your site and to handle all server maintenance tasks yourself. If you are using a licensed OS, you will also have to spend money on the license, which is normally more high-priced if bought for a whole physical machine.

Using a web hosting packages provider

If you don't want to deal with server maintenance procedures, the wisest step to take is to open an account with a web hosting vendor. These are companies that offer clients powerful web hosting servers with different hardware configurations for a certain tax. The hosting servers are situated in datacenter facilities with special cooling and uninterruptible power supply systems to ensure continuous website accessibility.

Types of hosting services

The web is an immense ocean and there are a plethora of hosting distributors providing various hosting services to the multitude of website proprietors out there. The web hosting services range from free-of-cost hosting services, where you can host plain, HTML-based websites, to high-priced dedicated web hosting services that can suck your finances dry. So, what web hosting type answers your demands?

If you own a small or mid-sized web site that has a few hundred guests tops, you could safely use a shared hosting solution. Shared web hosting signifies that plenty of web hosting clients and web sites are accommodated on one and the very same hosting server, thus slashing the price of the service. Shared accounts typically involve central processing unit, memory, traffic and server hard drive storage space usage quotas to make certain that the web sites hosted on the web hosting server do not interfere with each other and do not utilize more system resources than they are apportioned.

If your web site is larger, you should consider a VPS web hosting solution, which is the middle ground between the shared hosting solution and the dedicated web hosting solution. VPS stands for Virtual Private Server. It offers full root privileges, which permits you to make server configuration modifications - something that would be inconceivable on a shared web server. The virtual private servers also offer burstable RAM memory options. Separate RAM and CPU portions are allocated to each individual virtual web hosting server, without anyone else utilizing them. Usually there are other virtual private servers apart from your own that share the system resources of the physical machine, which could occasionally influence the overall performance, but in most circumstances it is not a problem. Should the system resources of the virtual web hosting server, however, be inadequate for your needs, it is apparently time to order a dedicated server.

The dedicated web hosting is a server that you lease, which is used solely by you for your very own web site needs. No one else shares its resources and you have full root privileges, can select a hardware architecture in advance, add upgrades later on and install RAM or disk drives. Unlike with the virtual private servers where virtualization is mainly at the Operating System level and all virtual containers share a single kernel, with a dedicated hosting web server you can modify the kernel of the OS (usually Linux-based) too.

Find your web hosting vendor

If you know what your site is going to include, or if you have only a vague idea that has not fully evolved yet, your very first move towards the creation of your website should be to choose a web hosting vendor. The smartest step to take is to find a hosting firm that distributes an extensive variety of web hosting services so that you do not need to change hosts if you first use a shared website hosting solution and then outgrow the shared hosting resources and have to shift to a Virtual Private Server hosting solution or a dedicated web server solution. We, for instance, distribute affordably priced shared hosting plans, cheap OpenVZ and Virtuozzo-based Virtual Private Servers, semi-dedicated servers with their own web hosting Control Panel and even dedicated web servers. We also offer cost-free presents - the shared website hosting cheap domain if they are paid for on a yearly basis, the more advanced virtual private web server hosting plans and dedicated server plans include a free-of-cost domain name reseller account and billing software should you wish to utilize them for reselling purposes. Add the first-rate 24-7-365 tech support service and you have all you would usually require. You could, without a doubt, discover other hosting suppliers depending on what precisely you are looking for, by conducting an online survey or by checking additional online web hosting reviews. The most intelligent choice, however, is a web hosting solutions provider that is also a domain name registrar and has web servers in more than one country - both prerequisites satisfied by us. We have web hosting servers in North America, in Britain and in Australia, and offer many domain extensions for registration.