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Getting Started In Web Hosting

Published Thursday, August 21, 2008 by bloggerblognet83280 | E-mail this post

What Is Web Hosting?

Web hosting is a service that allows users to serve their content on internet via their website. Users are provided with a specific space on a web server, where they upload the source files of their web-pages.

Once these files are uploaded on server, the web page can be accessed by the end users. For small websites the files can easily be uploaded by File Transfer Protocol (FTP), but for a complex website, a webmaster may need to install different scripts on server using databases, and to handle some other functions like email etc, so for that cPanel hosting is considered as most useful choice.

Types of Web Hosting

These are the basic types of web hosting according to the usage of service, i.e. complexity of a website.

Free Hosting: As title shows, it's free, so definitely it's provided with a limited set of functions. This type best suits simple sites like blogs. Free attracts everyone so does free hosting, but a major drawback of this type it that it is advertisement supported.

Shared Hosting: In this case your site is hosted on a server that has many other sites on it. All these sites hence share the server resources, i.e. RAM, CPU etc. This type, however, allows customization and advance features, i.e. ready made scripts, email access, website stats etc.

Reseller Hosting: This is an advanced type of shared hosting whereby you want to host more than one site at a single place. You then buy a single account for all your sites. There may be more than one reseller accounts on a single server, i.e. all your sites are on shared hosting if you've reseller hosting, but the difference is that you're managing them from one place.

Dedicated Hosting: This type of hosting allows the webmaster to have full control (including root access) over the server; however, he doesn't own it. This type of hosting suites best to complex and heavy websites, i.e. web community sites with high traffic etc. Another such type is Managed Dedicated Hosting whereby client is not given full control to modify server configuration, and that is to ensure the quality of service from hosting company.

Virtual Dedicated Hosting: This type lets the user feel that he's on his own server, but in actual there are more than one user sharing that server. The user, however, may have root access via Virtual Private Server (VPS).

So, have you made up your mind in which type of web hosting plan to go with? If yes, then it's time for you to pick up a web host. In such case, I would recommend you to check out my favourite web hosting companies: HostMonster and BlueHost.

Article by Phil Anderson.

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