Hosting Unmasked

As its name implies, hosting is a solution, which involves hosting online content. There are different varieties and kinds of hosting, depending on the aims and on the functions. Nevertheless, they all pertain to hosting files, which, once hosted, are made accessible throughout the Web. A host is in fact a web hosting service that is linked to the World Wide Web and has its own IP address, which allows people to have access to it through the Internet. The web server's configuration and its resources are subject to the sort of hosting service it will be used for.

What are the various types of web hosting?

Based on the objective, the business hosting solution may be:

File Web Hosting - this type of web hosting allows the users to accommodate their files on a certain server. With the traditional file web hosting service, the files that are accommodated may only be accessed by the individual that's using the service. This hosting service typically involves backups of PCs , docs, personal files and even other hosting servers. This service may also have certain limitations in relation to the web storage space and the root privileges. There may also be bandwidth limits, but that is dependent on the actual host.

Warez Hosting - the so-called warez web hosting service is quite similar to the previous hosting service type. Still, in contrast with the file web hosting solution, the warez hosting solution is used for disseminating copyrighted work without being given the go-ahead by the licence possessor. In short - it is connected with the illegal circulation of files and docs. There are numerous approaches for this to be achieved, but the 2 chief ways are - via simple HTTP downloading and via P2P connections. The first one involves either a certain website, or, most typically, simply a directory on a server that's been made available for everybody to access it and thus download copyrighted docs free of charge. The second way entails a peer-to-peer connection, utilizing the so-called Torrent servers, through which users swap files between each other. There aren't many web hosting companies that allow that type of hosting on their web hosting servers, mainly owing to all the judicial troubles that it involves. Commonly such web sites are hosted on private dedicated hosting servers that are registered by 3rd party companies either in the Middle East or in Asia.

Electronic Mail Web Hosting - this service is applicable with both shared website hosting and dedicated servers, depending on the user's intention. If you wish to create your very own private SMTP email server, then you will need either a virtual hosting server or a dedicated server that offers the level of access required to perform such a task. For routine e-mail hosting purposes, though, you can open a normal shared web hosting account, to which you can point the mail exchanger records of your domain name. This is not a solution that's very popular, because the website hosting and the e-mail hosting services are being served by 2 different servers, often belonging to different firms.

Hosting - the most famous and commonly used hosting service as of today. It's utilized for hosting web site files, whose sort depends on the OS the web hosting server is using - Linux or Windows. Different types of files necessitate different hosting server OSs, or else they won't be exhibited correctly on the World Wide Web. This kind of hosting may have disk space and traffic restrictions, server root access and central processing unit usage restrictions.

Based on the aims and on the functions, the customer should select the type of web hosting server that he needs for his work, and, of course, the hosting firm that's going to provide it. There are various types of web hosting servers, depending on the configuration and the website hosting services that they provide. These are:

Shared Web Hosting Server - a shared web hosting server includes a smaller quantity of resources, which, of course, is manifested in the cost of the service. It can be used for hosting small size and medium scale sites, which do not need large quantities of server storage space and web traffic.

Semi-dedicated Packages - they perform on the very same principle as the shared web servers. Yet, there are much less users accommodated on the same web hosting server. For that reason, each of them will receive a greater share of the server's resources like RAM, data storage, bandwidth and CPU. Ideal for hosting immense websites that do not require complete server root access.

VPS are ideal for medium sized sites, which do demand root-level access to the server's config files. Typically, there are several private virtual server accounts hosted on the same machine. Nevertheless, each of them is autonomous from the other ones and has its own Operating System.

Dedicated Package - a fully dedicated machine set up and accessed by you and only you. It guarantees a large amount of resources. It also provides server root access, which makes it a perfect environment for any type of web page that requires a web hosting service.

The only question that remains is:

Which website hosting provider should I opt for?

As stated above, there are just a few providers providing warez hosting solutions because of judicial complications. Such hosts are being closed down almost every month. Because of that, if you would like to establish such a service, you should do it on your very own PC. The shared web hosting solution is the most popular type of web hosting service. Because of that, each and every web hosting company provides it. Not all of them, however, offer solutions such as private virtual web hosting servers, Semi-dedicated Packages and dedicated web servers. Most of the small scale web hosting corporations do not have the means needed for maintaining those solutions. You can effortlessly identify such web hosts by the kinds of solutions that they are supplying and by the manner in which they present them to the clients. For instance, certain web hosting providers permit you to start with a low-end web hosting plan and afterwards move to a more advanced one, if you consider it compulsory to do so. This is extremely convenient, because you do not need to migrate web pages between servers and there is no chance of experiencing service downtime due to all the complications that may show up.

We, at HostFraser.com offer all sorts of services and have the required web hosting server resources and staff to guarantee that their customers will not come across any troubles when changing services, which is what a top hosting distributor is in fact all about.