How Website Hosting Functions

Website hosting is a service that hosting service providers offer so that you can upload your web site to the World Wide Web.

How can people observe your site?

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

How does website hosting work?

Hosting suppliers provide you with storage space for your web site on their high-powered computers (hosting servers) and guarantee uninterrupted network uptime. When somebody types your web address (for instance www.my-best-domain.com) in their browser's URL bar, they will be connected to the server where they can have a look at the content of your website.

Web hosting varieties

With the progress of web technologies, several types of web hosting services have come into existence to meet the various requirements of website possessors, including shared hosting services, Virtual Private Server hosting services and dedicated hosting services.

Shared web hosting

Shared website hosting is the most commonly used type of hosting, and is also the easiest to commence with. It is a service where one single hosting server is divided between a lot of web hosting account owners who are restricted by the CPU, web traffic and hosting server hard disk storage space quotas that they have been assigned. This type of hosting is usually less expensive - you don't need to pay for the entire web server upfront, since it is shared between many web hosting customers, and the hosting vendor can afford to offer much more modest prices. It is also much easier to use - the server is pre-configured with all the required software and the hosting vendor handles all server maintenance tasks and security updates on your behalf.

The negative side of the shared website hosting solution is that you share the hosting server's system resources with other users and if one web site becomes very busy it may influence (and slow down) the rest of the web sites on that hosting server, but the majority of hosting distributors, including us at Domain Sales at Affordable Price, have security systems at work that prevent that from happening.

A definition of a website hosting service

Since shared website hosting is the most commonly used type of web hosting, the majority of web hosting service providers and web hosting clients simply refer to it as web hosting or website hosting. As there is a considerable rivalry on the web hosting marketplace, the majority of hosting distributors strive to offer reasonable prices and gifts with their services. We, for instance, provide different hosting packages and two invoicing options - monthly and yearly, based on your resources. If you choose the annual invoicing cycle, you will receive a present - one free-of-cost 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 hosting solution and the dedicated web hosting solution. If your web site grows beyond the resources offered by your shared website hosting account, a virtual hosting server plan is a good choice. virtual server web hosting users still share the hardware resources of the physical machine with other VPS hosting users, but the disk drive is partitioned using special virtualization software so that each partition has its own guaranteed resources and can be configured practically like a full-fledged dedicated server. The upside is that the CPU and the RAM memory on a virtual private hosting server are not shared. Additionally, the virtualization technology offers you much more autonomy to configure your VPS web server, but it also calls for a more advanced level of technical knowledge.

Dedicated Web Hosting

With the Dedicated Web Hosting solution, the customer gets an entire dedicated server and can use all its system resources. The dedicated server hosting solution is the most robust of all hosting solutions and offers lots of configuration options - the dedicated server hosting clients can pick the hardware and software specifications that will fulfill their demands. Dedicated system resources and guaranteed performance are among the reasons why a dedicated server web hosting package is a perfect solution for a high resource-demanding business web portal, for instance - you will not share the web hosting server's system resources with anyone else and will be given root access. You will exercise complete control over the physical machine, which will permit you to implement any configuration changes that you might require. The weakness of the dedicated server web hosting solution is that a higher level of technical know-how is needed - unless you employ an Information Technology expert, you will be responsible for managing and configuring the dedicated server. The dedicated web hosting solution is also much more high-priced, because the cost of the dedicated web hosting server isn't shared among any other users.

A website hosting recommendation for novices

If you are just starting to develop your website and are searching for a hosting solution to start out with, the shared website hosting solution persists to be the most logical choice. If your site outgrows your website hosting account's resources, you can normally upgrade. With us, for instance, this is extremely easy and requires no migration of your data, because only the parameters of your website hosting account change. You can also upgrade your web hosting package to a more powerful one at any particular moment without worrying about the number of days remaining before the expiration date. Besides, if you finally reach the most advanced shared web hosting plan and still require more system resources (which is a good thing sometimes - it suggests that your web site's popularity has grown!), there always is the option to switch to a VPS hosting platform or a dedicated server web hosting solution without the need to switch hosting service providers.