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Web Hosting Defined

Web hosting is a service that hosting firms offer so that you can put your website on the web.

How can people open your website?

When you build a site and you want other persons to discern it, you will have to publish (or upload) it to a web server. If you try to make the site discoverable on the Internet by web hosting it on your own computer, there is no way for you to keep it constantly up and running, which is why website hosting services exist.

How does web hosting work?

Web hosting distributors offer you storage space for your web site on their high-powered computers (servers) and guarantee continuous network uptime. When somebody types your domain (for example www.my-best-domain.com) in their browser's URL bar, they will be connected to the web hosting server where they can take a peek at the content of your site.

Web hosting types

With the growth of web technologies, different types of web hosting services have come into being to meet the various requirements of web site possessors, among them shared web hosting services, VPS server hosting services and dedicated web server hosting services.

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Shared website hosting is the most commonly used type of hosting, and is also the easiest to commence with. It is a service where a single web hosting server is shared among numerous web hosting clients who are limited by the CPU, bandwidth and server space quotas that they have been assigned. This type of web hosting is typically cheaper - you don't need to pay for the whole server in advance, since it is shared between a lot of hosting account owners, and the hosting supplier can afford to offer much more reasonable prices. It is also easier to use - the hosting server is pre-configured with all the required software and the hosting vendor takes care of all server maintenance procedures and security updates on your behalf.

The negative side of the shared web hosting solution is that you share the server's system resources with other hosting clients and if one web site becomes very busy it may affect (and slow down) all the other websites on that hosting server, but the majority of web hosting companies, including us at Malang Host, have security systems in place that obstruct that from happening.

A definition of a web hosting service

Because shared website hosting is the most common type of web hosting, the majority of hosting service providers and hosting clients simply refer to it as hosting or website hosting. As there is a huge competition on the website hosting marketplace, most hosting firms try to offer moderate prices and gifts with their web hosting services. We, for example, offer different website hosting packages and two billing options - monthly and yearly, based on your budget. If you select the yearly billing cycle, you will receive a present - one charge-free domain name registration.

VPS web hosting

VPS stands for Virtual Private Server. The VPS web hosting solution is basically the middle ground between the shared web hosting solution and the dedicated server hosting solution. If your website grows beyond the resources offered by your shared website hosting plan, a VPS hosting server plan is a possible solution. VPS web hosting account owners still share the hardware resources of the physical server with other private virtual web server hosting users, but the server is split up using a special virtualization technology so that each partition has its own dedicated system resources and can be configured almost like an actual dedicated hosting server. The advantage is that the CPU and the memory on a Virtual Private Server are not shared. Additionally, the virtualization technology offers you much more autonomy to configure your virtual server, but it also calls for a higher degree of technical competence.

Dedicated Web Hosting

With the Dedicated Web Hosting solution, the customer gets an entire web hosting server and can use all its system resources. The dedicated hosting solution is the most powerful of all web hosting solutions and offers multiple configuration options - the dedicated web server hosting users can pick the hardware and software specs that will satisfy their demands. Dedicated system resources and no-holds-barred performance are two reasons why a dedicated server hosting package is an excellent choice for a large corporate portal, for example - you will not share the dedicated server's system resources with anyone else and will be granted complete server root access. You will exercise full control over the physical machine, which will permit you to implement any configuration changes that you might require. The setback of the dedicated web server hosting solution is that a more advanced level of technical knowledge is required - unless you hire an Information Technology professional, it will be your obligation to administer and configure the dedicated web hosting server. The dedicated server hosting solution is also much more high-priced, since the cost of the dedicated server isn't shared between any other users.

A web hosting advice for novices

If you are just starting to set up your website and need a web hosting solution to start out with, the shared web hosting solution persists to be the most relevant choice. If your site outgrows your shared website hosting account's resources, you can normally upgrade. With us, for example, this is extremely easy and does not necessitate migration of your web site files, since only the features of your website hosting account change. You can also upgrade your website hosting package to a more advanced one at any particular time without worrying about the time left until the expiration date. Also, if you eventually reach the most advanced shared website hosting plan and still require more resources (which is great sometimes - it suggests that your web site's popularity has risen!), there always is the option to move to a VPS server hosting solution or a dedicated hosting platform without the need to change web hosting providers.