How Does Web Hosting Work?

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

How can people check out your site?

When you create a website and you wish other persons to see it, you will need to publish (or upload) it to a server. If you try to make the website reachable online by web hosting it on your own computer, there is no way for you to keep it online all the time, which is why hosting services appeared.

How does web hosting work?

Hosting vendors provide you with data storage space for your website on their powerful computers (hosting servers) and guarantee constant website availability. When somebody types your URL (for instance www.my-best-domain.com) in their web browser's address bar, they will be connected to the web server where they can view the content of your site.

Web hosting varieties

With the growth of Internet technologies, different types of web hosting services have come into existence to match the different needs of web site proprietors, including shared hosting services, Virtual Private Server hosting services and dedicated server hosting services.

Shared web hosting

Shared website hosting is the most widely used type of hosting, and is also the easiest to start with. It is a service where one single web server is divided among lots of shared hosting account owners who are limited by the CPU, traffic and web server disk space quotas that they have been allotted. This type of web hosting is typically cheaper - you don't need to pay for the whole web server in advance, since it is divided among numerous web hosting customers, and the web hosting vendor can afford to provide much more affordable prices. It is also much easier to use - the server is pre-installed with all the required software and the web hosting supplier handles all server maintenance tasks and security updates on your behalf.

The drawback of the shared hosting solution is that you share the hosting server's resources with other shared hosting account holders and if a given site becomes very popular it may affect (and slow down) the rest of the web sites on that server, but the majority of hosting providers, including us at Websoes, have protection platforms in place that impede that from happening.

A description of a web hosting service

Because shared website hosting is the most popular form of web hosting, the majority of hosting service providers and hosting users simply refer to it as hosting or website hosting. As there is a big competition on the web hosting marketplace, most web hosting providers try to offer cheap prices and gifts with their web hosting services. We, for instance, offer different hosting packages and two billing options - monthly and yearly, depending on your finances. If you pick the yearly billing cycle, you will get a bonus - one cost-free domain name registration.

VPS hosting packages

VPS stands for Virtual Private Server. The VPS hosting solution is basically the middle ground between the shared web hosting solution and the dedicated hosting solution. If your site outgrows the resources offered by your shared website hosting account, a VPS hosting package is a good solution. virtual private web server hosting users still share the hardware resources of the physical machine with other VPS server web hosting account owners, but the hard disk is partitioned using special virtualization software so that each partition has its own guaranteed resources and can be configured almost like a real dedicated web hosting server. The advantage is that the CPU and the RAM memory on a virtual server are not shared. In addition, the virtualization technology gives you much more autonomy to configure your VPS web server, but it also calls for a higher degree of technical proficiency.

Dedicated Hosting

With the Dedicated Hosting solution, the client obtains an entire dedicated hosting server and can utilize all its system resources. The dedicated web server hosting solution is the most flexible of all website hosting solutions and offers loads of configuration possibilities - the dedicated hosting users can select the hardware and software specs that will satisfy their demands. Dedicated resources and guaranteed performance are among the reasons why a dedicated server hosting plan is an excellent choice for a high resource-absorbing business website, for example - you will not share the physical machine's resources with anyone else and will get complete root-level access. You will have full control over the web server, which will allow you to implement any server configuration modifications that you might require. The downside of the dedicated web hosting solution is that a higher degree of technical know-how is needed - unless you employ an Information Technology specialist, it will be your responsibility to manage and configure the dedicated web server. The dedicated hosting solution is also much more high-priced, since the cost of the dedicated web hosting server isn't shared among any other customers.

A website hosting tip for beginners

If you are just beginning to develop your website and are searching for a website hosting solution to commence with, the shared website hosting solution remains the most sensible option. If your web site grows beyond your shared web hosting account's resources, you can normally upgrade. With us, for example, 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 web hosting plan to a more advanced one at any given moment without worrying about the remaining time until expiration. What is more, if you eventually reach the most powerful shared hosting package and still require more system resources (which is great sometimes - it suggests that your website's popularity has risen!), there always is the option to move to a virtual web server or a dedicated web server hosting platform without needing to change hosting service providers.