Hosting Packages Explanation

Hosting is a service that web hosting companies provide so that you can publish your site on the Internet.

How can people access your website?

When you make a web site and you wish other individuals to discern it, you will have to copy (or upload) it to a web hosting server. If you try to render the website reachable online by hosting it on your own computer, there is no way for you to keep it up and running all the time, which is why hosting services came into existence.

How does hosting work?

Web hosting providers offer you data storage space for your website on their high-power computers (web hosting servers) and guarantee continuous Internet connection. When someone types your web site address (e.g. www.my-best-domain.com) in their browser's address bar, they will be connected to the web hosting server where they can have a gaze at the content of your site.

Web hosting types

With the advance of web technologies, different types of web hosting services have come into being to answer the different expectations of website possessors, including shared website hosting services, VPS server web hosting services and dedicated web hosting services.

Shared web hosting

Shared website hosting is the most common type of hosting, and is also the easiest to commence with. It is a service where one single server is divided between plenty of customers who are limited by the CPU, bandwidth and web server hard drive storage space quotas that they have been assigned. This form of hosting is normally cheaper - you don't need to pay for the entire web hosting server in advance, since it is shared among multiple hosting account holders, and the web hosting vendor can afford to provide much more reasonable prices. It is also much easier to use - the hosting server is pre-configured with all the necessary software and the web hosting company takes care of all server maintenance procedures and software updates on your behalf.

The negative side of the shared web hosting solution is that you share the web hosting server's system resources with other web hosting users and if one website becomes really popular it may affect (and slow down) all the other websites on that server, but the majority of hosting firms, including us at HostFraser.com, have protection platforms in place that prevent that from taking place.

A definition of a website hosting service

Because shared web hosting is the most common form of web hosting, most hosting firms and web hosting clients simply call it hosting or website hosting. As there is an extensive competition on the website hosting marketplace, the majority of web hosting suppliers strive to provide low prices and bonuses with their hosting services. We, for instance, offer different website hosting plans and two invoicing options - monthly and yearly, based on your budget. If you select the yearly billing cycle, you will get a bonus - one free-of-charge domain registration.

VPS packages

VPS is an abbreviation of Virtual Private Server. The VPS hosting solution is essentially the middle ground between the shared hosting solution and the dedicated server web hosting solution. If your site grows beyond the resources offered by your shared hosting account, a virtual web server hosting plan is an excellent solution. virtual server hosting clients still share the hardware resources of the physical machine with other VPS web hosting clients, but the disk space is split up using special virtualization software so that each partition has its own guaranteed system resources and can be configured practically like a real dedicated hosting server. The upside is that the CPU and the memory on a VPS web server are not shared. Furthermore, the virtualization technology offers you much more autonomy to configure your server, but it also calls for a more advanced level of technical proficiency.

Dedicated Package

With the Dedicated Package solution, the customer obtains an entire dedicated web hosting server and can utilize all its resources. The dedicated web hosting solution is the most reliable of all website hosting solutions and offers a lot of configuration possibilities - the users can choose the hardware and software specifications that will match their requirements. Dedicated resources and no-holds-barred performance are two reasons why a dedicated server hosting plan is an excellent choice for a heavy-content corporate web portal, for instance - you will not share the hosting server's system resources with anyone else and will be bestowed with root-level access. You will exert complete control over the physical machine, which will permit you to make any configuration changes that you might require. The weakness of the dedicated web hosting solution is that a higher degree of technical proficiency is needed - unless you engage an IT professional, it will be your duty to manage and configure the server. The dedicated hosting solution is also far more expensive, because the cost of the dedicated hosting server isn't shared between any other customers.

A website hosting recommendation for beginner users

If you are just starting to create your site and are searching for a web hosting solution to begin with, the shared website hosting solution remains the most reasonable option. If your website outgrows your website hosting account's resources, you can normally upgrade. With us, for instance, this is extremely easy and does not necessitate migration of your website files, since only the parameters of your website hosting account change. You can also upgrade your website hosting package to a more powerful one at any given moment without having to worry about the number of days left before expiration. Furthermore, if you finally reach the most powerful shared website hosting plan and still need more system resources (which is a good thing sometimes - it suggests that your site's popularity has risen!), there always is the possibility to switch to a VPS web server hosting solution or a dedicated hosting server without having to change web hosting service providers.