Web Hosting Services Explained

Web hosting is a kind of Internet service that permits individuals and corporations to make their web pages viewable on the World Wide Web. Hosting providers are firms that offer disk storage space on a server held in a data center and guarantee continuous service uptime.

Where do you start?

The Internet has become a vital part of everyone's everyday routine. It offers you the opportunity to gain additional profit, but can also be a major source of revenue. In order to embed commercials on your web page or to popularize a commodity that you sell, you invariably need a hosting service, which will make sure that your site is safe and continually visible. But how do you discover one that is affordable and yet reliable enough?

The shared web hosting platform

The solution web hosting vendors have come up with is called shared web hosting. With the shared hosting solution, lots of hosting users are hosted on one and the very same server. There are stringent restrictions on the system resources that each web hosting account can in fact resort to, thus making certain that they do not intervene with each other. The shared solution offers decent performance and is cheaper than, let's say, a dedicated server, which is used by only one customer. The shared hosting solution allows web hosting vendors to offer their clients attractive prices. It typically includes intuitive hosting Control Panel software, as is the case with the server that we at D and Co. Webify provide, and enables everybody to administer their web portals without worrying about server installation and maintenance procedures, which are handled solely by the hosting service provider.

VPS hosting

With the VPS hosting solution, on the other hand, you share a physical machine with other VPS web server customers, but you are allocated a dedicated share of the resources. The private virtual web hosting server solution is the middle ground between the much more moderately priced shared web hosting solution and the more high-priced dedicated web hosting solution, and is an excellent option for anyone who desires to make, for instance, an audio or video streaming website or a social networking website. The fact that you need to cope with the web server configuration settings and software updates yourself is somewhat of a disadvantage, but this could also be a big benefit if you really need to make certain server configuration modifications - something that would be inconceivable on a shared web hosting server.

Dedicated Hosting Servers

Dedicated hosting servers are in the majority of instances much more expensive than shared or virtual private web server hosting solutions. You might ask why would anyone use a dedicated hosting server then? The answer is rather simple. If your firm has a resource-swallowing web portal, or simply has very special server setup and safety requirements, the most reasonable option is a dedicated web hosting server that you or your server administrators can administer directly. For somebody who is prepared to invest in security and dependability, the higher price is not a problem. You obtain root privileges and can use 100% of the dedicated web server's system resources without anyone else sharing these resources and messing with your web portals.