What Does Website Hosting Signify?

If you want to create a site and make it available for the whole world to see, it has to be located on a server. The name of this service is website hosting.

Host your site at home or somewhere else

You could host your website on your own computer at home or at work, on a computer which belongs to a buddy of yours, and so on. If it is a website for testing purposes, there would be no real reason for you to search for a more advanced website hosting solution than that. If you want to create a real website, however, which will be reachable by a lot of visitors and you desire to make it reliable, you will also need a dependable hosting server where you will host it.

Why do you need a server for your web site?

When you own a web site, it is located on a physical server. That physical server has its own physical address known also as Internet Protocol address. Typing the IP address of the physical machine in your web browser, though, is not the best and simplest means to visit a website. That is how and why domains came into being and why you need one for your website. Therefore, to establish your site, you require a domain of your own and a hosting server to host your web site on.

Hosting your website on your own

If you are an IT pro and know how to take care of a hosting server, you can have a server of your own and host your site on it. This will allow you to exert full authority over the hosting server, to implement server configuration modifications and to apply software updates yourself instead of relying on the datacenter personnel. The weakness, though, is that you will need to ensure the availability of your site and to deal with all server maintenance procedures yourself. If you are using a licensed Operating System, you will also have to pay for the license, which is normally more costly if purchased for an entire server.

Using a hosting distributor

If you don't want to deal with server maintenance duties, the most reasonable step to take is to open an account with a web hosting company. These are companies that offer customers powerful hosting servers with various hardware configurations for a certain tax. The web hosting servers are kept in data centers with special cooling and UPS systems to ensure continuous network uptime.

Varieties of hosting services

The web is an endless ocean and there are multiple companies delivering various hosting services to the myriad of website owners out there. The hosting services range from cost-free web hosting services, where you can host basic, HTML-based websites, to expensive dedicated web server hosting services that can drain your monthly budget. So, what hosting type fits your requirements?

If you run a small or mid-size web page that has several hundred visitors max, you could safely use a shared hosting solution. Shared hosting implies that numerous hosting accounts and web sites are accommodated on the same web server, thus lowering the price of the web hosting service. Shared web hosting accounts normally involve CPU, memory, web traffic and server hard drive space usage quotas to make sure that the websites accommodated on the web hosting server do not interfere with each other and do not utilize more resources than they are assigned.

If your web site is more resource-requiring, you should opt for 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 gives you full root access, which permits you to make server configuration changes - something that would be inconceivable on a shared web server. The virtual private servers also offer burstable RAM memory options. Separate RAM and central processing unit portions are allocated to each single virtual hosting server, without anyone else using them. Typically there are other virtual private servers beside yours that share the resources of the physical server, which could occasionally affect the overall performance, but in the majority of instances it is not a problem. Should the resources of the private virtual server, though, be inadequate for your needs, it is plainly time to move to a dedicated web server.

The dedicated web hosting is a server that you lease, which is used only by you for your own website needs. No one else shares its system resources and you acquire full root privileges, can select the hardware in advance, add upgrades later on and add RAM or hard disks. Unlike with the virtual private servers where virtualization is mainly at the OS level and all containers share a single kernel, with a dedicated web hosting server you can modify the kernel of the OS (typically Linux-based) as well.

Find your web host

If you know what your website is going to be composed of, or if you have just a loose idea that has not completely matured yet, your first move towards the creation of your website should be to find a hosting supplier. The most reasonable step to take is to discover a hosting firm that furnishes an immense variety of website hosting services so that you do not have to swap web hosting service providers in case you first make use of a shared hosting solution and then outgrow the shared web hosting resources and have to shift to a virtual hosting server or a dedicated web hosting server. We, for instance, supply low-priced shared website hosting plans, low-cost OpenVZ and Virtuozzo-based private virtual server plans, semi-dedicated web hosting servers with their own Control Panel and even dedicated hosting server plans. We also offer charge-free presents - the shared web hosting cheap domain if they are paid for on an annual basis, the more powerful private virtual servers and dedicated server hosting plans come with a free-of-cost domain reseller account and invoicing software should you decide to utilize them for reselling purposes. Throw in the topflight 24/7 technical support service and you have all you would usually require. You could, by all means, discover other hosting vendors depending on what precisely you are searching for, by conducting an online search or by examining different online hosting reviews. The most reasonable choice, however, is a web hosting vendor that is also a domain registrar and has servers in more than one country - both preconditions satisfied by us. We have servers in the United States of America, in the United Kingdom and in Australia, and offer lots of domain name extensions for registration.