A Tutorial In Web Hosting

Web hosting is the server space that lets the user display their web page on the internet. And the web hosting industries allocates space for customers to showcase their site domains on various computer servers that are hooked on to the internet year round. These computer servers are given unique IP addresses in a way so that they can be located by other computers hooked onto the internet. All the web files are stored on these servers in formats such as HTML files, CSS files, JAVA scripts, dot net, graphic files, etc. These servers also have large memory spaces with extremely large hard drives or an array of hard drives connected to the host. A web hosting company rents these spaces to the consumer to present their websites on the internet. Web hosting services can be utilised by anyone who wants to own a domain or create one for their web-page.

There are several types of web hosting services available in the market specific to the requirement of the clients. For example, if a student wants to promote a cultural activity via a web-page, he/she can very well use the free web hosting services available online, and because their requirement is lesser comparatively, they will be given a limited space by the web hosting servers to host their web-page. Whereas small firms and companies or for that matter larger companies require a web hosting server which provides them with unlimited memory space and unlimited bandwidth to keep updating their company’s website. In their cases, they need to buy or rent space from the web hosting companies to continuously monitor their web-pages. The web-hosting services include constant uploads by the consumers and making them available for promoting across the internet.

There is a broad range of web hosting packages one can choose from for hosting their business web site online. From shared hosting to dedicated hosting to VPS hosting to managed hosting to reseller hosting, every hosting package has their own providence given out to their customers. The most used by the web hosts is shared hosting servers because of its cost-effectiveness and the various features it comes with and the ease to use it. In shared hosting one can share bandwidth, disk-space and build various networks with other paying customers. But in dedicated hosting servers the services are dedicated to a client bringing in utmost control over the data’s shared across the net along with flexibility of changing and updating the data’s. VPS hosting is a very new concept to the world of hosting, it is usually chosen for its great performance ability over other services because of its creation of multiple virtual servers within the main servers. While managed and reseller hosting are hassle-free but very costly.

By: Caren Stanley

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Caren Stanley has worked as a Network engineer for several big-shot web hosting organisations.