Web Hosting Description

If you would like to create a site and render it available for the whole world to see, it needs to be hosted on a web server. The name of this service is web hosting.

Host your website at home or in another place

You could host your web site on your own personal computer at your house or at your workplace, on a PC which belongs to a mate of yours, and so on. If it is a web site for testing purposes, there would be no real reason for you to find a more advanced website hosting solution than that. If you want to create an actual website, though, which will be accessible to lots of visitors and you want to make it reliable, you will also require a dependable server where you will host it.

Why do you require a web server for your website?

When you have a site, it is hosted on a physical server. That physical server has its own physical address called IP address. Writing the Internet Protocol address of the physical server in your browser, however, is not the best and most convenient method to open a web site. That is how and why domains came into being and why you need one for your web site. Therefore, to set up your site, you require a domain of your own and a hosting server to host your web site on.

Hosting your site yourself

If you are an Information Technology expert and understand how to administer a web server, you can have a server of your own and host your website on it. This will enable you to exercise full authority over the web hosting server, to make server configuration changes and to apply software updates yourself rather than having to rely on the datacenter staff. The downside, however, is that you will have to ensure the visibility of your web site and to cope with all server maintenance procedures yourself. If you are availing of a licensed OS, you will also need to pay for the license, which is typically more costly if bought for an entire web server.

Using a web hosting packages provider

If you don't want to handle server maintenance duties, the smartest step to take is to register an account with a web hosting services provider. These are companies that offer customers powerful servers with various hardware configurations for a given fee. The web hosting servers are located in datacenters with special cooling and uninterruptible power supply systems to ensure constant website availability.

Varieties of hosting services

The World Wide Web is a boundless ocean and there are lots of web hosting corporations providing various hosting services to the plethora of website possessors out there. The hosting services range from charge-free hosting services, where you can host basic, HTML-based web sites, to high-priced dedicated web hosting services that can drain your funds. So, what web hosting type conforms to your requirements?

If you possess a small or mid-sized website that has several hundred guests tops, you could safely avail of a shared hosting solution. Shared hosting signifies that many shared hosting clients and web sites are accommodated on one and the same web hosting server, thus decreasing the price of the service. Shared accounts usually involve CPU, RAM, bandwidth and hard disk space quotas to make certain that the websites accommodated on the hosting server do not interfere with each other and do not use more resources than they are assigned.

If your website is more resource-consuming, you should choose a VPS hosting solution, which is the middle ground between the shared web hosting solution and the dedicated hosting solution. VPS is an abbreviation of Virtual Private Server. It offers root access, which enables you to make server configuration modifications - something that would be inconceivable on a shared hosting server. The virtual private servers also offer burstable RAM options. Separate RAM and central processing unit portions are allotted to each single virtual web hosting server, without anyone else utilizing them. Usually there are other virtual private servers aside from your own that share the resources of the physical machine, which could sometimes affect the overall performance, but in most situations it is not a problem. Should the system resources of the VPS, though, be inadequate for your needs, it is clearly time to obtain a dedicated web server.

The dedicated hosting is a physical server that you lease, which is utilized just by you for your very own website needs. Nobody else shares its system resources and you are given full root privileges, can choose a hardware architecture in advance, apply updates at a later time and add RAM or hard disks. Unlike with the virtual private servers where virtualization is mostly at the OS level and all containers share a single kernel, with a dedicated web server you can revise the kernel of the OS (usually Linux-based) too.

Choose your web hosting supplier

If you know what your site is going to consist of, or if you have just a vague idea that has not fully evolved yet, your initial step towards the creation of your site should be to pick a web hosting vendor. The best solution is to discover a hosting corporation that furnishes an enormous assortment of hosting services so that you do not need to change hosting service providers if you first make use of a shared web hosting solution and then outgrow the shared web hosting resources and need to shift to a virtual server web hosting solution or a dedicated web server solution. We, for example, provide budget-priced shared hosting packages, low-cost OpenVZ and Virtuozzo-based virtual web server packages, semi-dedicated hosting servers with their own hosting Control Panel interface and even dedicated web server hosting packages. We also offer free-of-cost presents - the shared web hosting affordable domain if they are paid for on a yearly basis, the more advanced VPS web hosting server packages and dedicated hosting server packages offer a charge-free domain name reseller account and billing software should you wish to utilize them for reselling purposes. Throw in the excellent 24-7-365 client support service and you have all you would usually require. You could, doubtlessly, find other web hosting vendors depending on what exactly you are searching for, by carrying out an online survey or by examining different online web hosting reviews. The best option, though, is a hosting plans provider that is also a domain name registrar and has servers in more than one country - both prerequisites satisfied by us. We have web hosting servers in the States, in the United Kingdom and in Australia, and offer loads of domain extensions for registration.