Different
Types of Web Site Hosting
Different Types of Web Site Hosting
First of all we must determine the meaning of the word “hosting”.
So, what is hosting?
Hosting origins from the word “host” which has different
meanings that are familiar to you. Hosting means providing place
for your website on the web hosting company’s servers and
makes it viewable in the Internet and floating it.
Why can you once need hosting?
Imagine that you have created a website and now you are wondering
how your friends and acquaintances can see it. You place it in your
personal computer, but then you come to know that it’s dangerous
for your computer’s safety and needs permanent Internet connection.
So it causes a lot of inconveniences for you. To avoid them there
is web site hosting.
There are different kinds of web site hosting. Let’s have
a good look at them:
1. Shared or virtual hosting
2. Dedicated hosting/ server, Co-location
3. VDS/VPS –Virtual Dedicated Server/Virtual Private Server
Before choosing some type of web hosting it’s necessary
to consider the way you are going to use it.
Free Shared hosting
If you want to host some non-profit-making or your personal web
site it’d be more profitable to use basic shared hosting for
no fee. This type of web site hosting is a rather logical choice
if you are a junior in web site building or if you want to try some
new idea and don’t want to pay. But of course you don’t
have to suppose it to grant your site the best conditions, such
as proper bandwidth and disk space. Some other features can also
be limited, I mean MySQL, PHP support. It often also provides poor
web statistics.
Paid Shared hosting
Almost all small businesses, intermediate and large professional
sites use shared hosting, ‘cause they don’t need the
whole server’s space and besides the whole server costs much.
With shared/virtual hosting such necessary features, as multiply
e-mail, MySQl, PHP, are supported. The main disadvantage is decrease
of your site’s security.
Dedicated hosting /Server
This type of hosting is the best choice for those, who need much
storage and bandwidth, and are good in server administration. You’ll
be able to use all necessary software, but if you don’t have
enough knowledge to administrate your server it will be a little
bit difficult for you.
Co-location
It’s a sub type of dedicated hosting and can be compared
with your own house which was built specially for you, with your
favorite furniture and all. It’s built on your hoster’s
(ISP) ground. This service is implied to fulfill only your tasks
and is designed for your needs alone. And it’s cost is correspondingly
high.
VDS/ VPS
Virtual private server is a type of web site hosting that is based
on dividing a physical server into several virtual ones. It costs
less though gives same possibilities as Dedicated server. Now, when
we’ve examined different types of hosting services, you can
decide which type of hosting is the most suitable for you.
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