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What Is Web Hosting?
Web Hosting is an internet service or online based service that allows organizations and individuals to post their website or web content on the internet.
It is often provided as part of a general internet access plan.
In other words, it is a service of providing space for the storage of information, images, files and other content onto servers which can be accessed by others through the World Wide Web sites.
This service is usually provided by a company or an institution called Internet Service Provider (ISP) or Hosting Service Provider (HSP) where they station their physical servers in a temperature controlled surroundings and permanently connected to the internet by using available data lines.
Besides providing storage space, these companies or institutions also extends their services to installation, 27/7 maintenance and repair of the internet connection.
Types Of Basic Web Hosting
Shared or Virtual Web Hosting
This type of service is the most commonly used by the internet user where your domain name is registered onto one server.
This server is shared in terms of resources (ie. CPU time, Operating System, RAM, applications, bandwidth) by other clients of your ISP (Internet Service Provider) or HSP.
Advantages
The lowest cost for registration of your domain name since your ISP or HSP host numbers of client onto one server, therefore cost of maintaining the server can be reduced and pass the saving to you.
Suitable for small and medium websites with average traffic. Please check with your ISP or HSP terms of service for the definition of "average traffic" because different ISP or HSP has different benchmark.
Disadvantages
Not able to manage the activities of the server but still able to manage your website activities.
Not able to install new software of your own choice (imposed by your ISP or HSP) since it might distract or distort their other applications which is shared by other clients.
Can not expect constant high rate of uptime for your website (ie. inconsistent website).
Traffic volume, database and software support restriction might be imposed by your ISP or HSP. Please check with your ISP or HSP terms of hosting service.
Server instability (ie. inconsistent amount of access to the resources) due to number of users is using it.
Your website is "open" for somebody to hacker in since everybody has access to the resources.
Vitual Private Server / Virtual Dedicated Server
This type of service is in between the shared and dedicated web hosting. The features provided will be the same as shared or virtual web hosting (ie. sharing resources) however, all these features are allocated in such away so that certain percentage of these resources are for you and only for you to be used.
In other words, these allocated resources will always be available for you to be used. The percentage of the resources allocation is determined by your agreement with your ISP or HSP.
Advantages
It might not be the lowest cost for registration of your domain name but it is the most cost effective one since you are able to access to resources allocated for you and only for you to be used.
More stable server activities.
More secure and consistent since it is fed by the same amount of resources.
Disadvantages
Sometimes ISP or HSP advertise their storage space over than their actual server storage capability in the hope that users will not use up all their storage space.
This selling strategy by ISP or HSP might create problem for this particular type of service because users in the realm of expectation will use resources up to the maximum available for them and a shortage of resources can cause problem for all users of that particular server.
Please make sure that your ISP or HSP guarantees the storage space availability which is already allocated for you.
Free Web Hosting
As the name already described itself, this type of service is free of charge. It is suitable for small site with low traffic as a test platform or an experiment.
Advantages
It is FREE.
Disadvantages
Limited web space and other restrictions imposed by the ISP or HSP.
Limited database and technical support.
The web site might be bombarded with banners, popups, inline ads, flash advertising and other sort of advertising campaign generated by the ISP or HSP in order to off-set the cost of maintaining the server.
You might not be able to use your own domain name but the one already set by your ISP or HSP which sometimes hard to type, hard to remember and not professional.
Types Of Advance Web Hosting:
1. Dedicated Web Hosting
2. Managed Web Hosting
3. Server Co-Location Web Hosting
4. Reseller Web Hosting and more
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