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This first paragraph will explain briefly what ‘website hosting’ actually is… For a Website to be seen across the world it needs to be ‘hosted’ by a ‘provider’. These providers basically have several ‘web servers’; which are basically really big and complex computer hubs – from here they connect everything on the web servers to the internet so that the information can be seen around the world.
There are many types of ‘hosting providers’ from personal to multi national business models, but for personal and small business there are two main options …
A Free web hosting service, this is free, advertisement-supported (sometimes) web hosting, and is often limited when compared to paid hosting.
The other is Shared Hosting … Which is both the most popular and the most confusing… is a type of hosting where many web sites are hosted on same physical server. It is the cheapest and easiest way to get a web site up and running. Shared web hosting is perfect for web blogs, personal web pages, small forums, small business and e-commerce sites. Shared web hosting is ideal for establishing both simple websites up to medium sized complex websites.
Shared hosting can be explained using an example of a leased space in a office building. A specific part the building is yours, where you can place your own name or company name on the door. Building manager will provide you security, maintenance, and facilities management.
Shared hosting is also alike. You leased or purchased a hosting plan from a shared hosting provider. He gives you disk space, bandwidth, and all the other essentials from a specific server at a certain cost. The features of that server are also shared with others.
The shared web hosting provider is responsible for the security, maintenance of the server, network uptime and all the other important things. More than one websites are hosted on one server having different and unique domain names. This is called “shared” hosting because your home page has its own domain name. Shared hosting can also be called ‘virtual hosting’.
So let’s just recap … Shared hosting is when a web host divides up a server so that it can host multiple websites in virtual directories. This is the most common type of hosting available on the internet today. For most sites, a quality shared hosting setup will get the job done.
Most shared hosting plans will suffice for 80% of business and 99% of personal use, but beware of Hosting Providers as they will describe complex offers which may open a can of worms surrounding restrictions and limits. Most web hosts have limits to encourage you to upgrade to their more expensive plans. Don’t forget that should you need more of ‘whatever they are offering’ you can upgrade at a later stage; it is a tad more difficult to downgrade.
I hope this has explained the basics. Should you need either hosting, or hosting for multiple websites, you can achieve this for $7.95 per month. For more information please visit my website: http://www.GlobalTop5.com/Web-Hosting.html
Mr. A. Bolton
Senior Internet Advisor / Analyst
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Choosing Web hosting type can get somewhat confusing if you are not aware of the possible and popular web hosting types available in the market. I have tried to compile a list of possible web hosting types giving brief features of each type. After reading this article you should(hopefully 
) be in position to differentiate between all hosting types.
Free web hosting
Free web hosting is offered by different companies with limited services, sometimes advertisement-supported web hosting, and is often limited when compared to paid hosting. A free web hosting service is a web hosting service that is free, usually advertisement-supported. Free web hosts will usually provide a subdomain (yoursite.example.com) or a directory (www.example.com/~yourname). In contrast, paid web hosts will usually provide a second-level domain along with the hosting (www.yourname.com). Many free hosts do allow use of separately-purchased domains.The majority of the hosting companies use free hosting to introduce their services, and as an entry point to their more expensive offerings. Generally they recoup their cost by Advertising, Referrals etc
Shared web hosting
In Shared web hosting, as name suggests, your web site is placed on the same server as many other sites, ranging from a few to hundreds or thousands. Typically, all domains may share a common pool of server resources, such as RAM and the CPU. The features available with this type of service can be quite extensive. A shared web hosting service or virtual hosting service or derive host refers to a web hosting service where many websites reside on same web server connected to the Internet. Each site “resides” on its own partition, or section/place on the server to keep it separate from other sites. This is generally the most economical option for hosting as many people share the overall cost of server maintenance. Shared web hosting can be accomplished in two ways: name-based and IP-based, although some control panels allow a mix of name-based and IP-based on the one server.
Reseller web hosting
Reseller hosting is a form of web hosting wherein the account owner has the ability to use his/her allotted hard drive space and bandwidth to host websites on behalf of third parties. The reseller purchases the host’s services wholesale and then sells them to customers for a profit. A certain portion of hard drive and bandwidth is allocated to the reseller account. The reseller may rent a dedicated server from a hosting company, or resell shared hosting services. In the latter case, the reseller is simply given the permission to sell a certain amount of disk space and bandwidth to his own customers without renting a server from a web hosting company he signed for a reseller account with. Reseller hosting is also an inexpensive way for web hosting entrepreneurs to start a company. Most reseller hosting plans allow resellers to create their own service plans and choose their own pricing structure. In many cases, resellers are able to establish their own branding via customized control panels and name servers.
VPS Hosting
A virtual private server (VPS, also referred to as VPS Hosting) is a method of partitioning a physical server computer into multiple servers such that each has the appearance and capabilities of running on its own dedicated machine. Each virtual server can run its own full-fledged operating system, and each server can be independently rebooted. Virtual private servers bridge the gap between shared web hosting services and dedicated hosting services, giving independence from other customers of the VPS service in software terms but at less cost than a physical dedicated server. As a VPS runs its own copy of its operating system, customers have superuser-level access to that operating system instance, and can install almost any software that runs on the OS. Simply put, a VPS simulates a private server in that you, the site owner, can deploy whatever software you want or need to continue growing an e-biz. This isn’t possible with shared hosting plans which limit you to the software options offered by the hosting company, thus limiting the database, checkout and other software you use.
Dedicated hosting
A dedicated hosting service, dedicated server, or managed hosting service is a type of Internet hosting in which the client leases an entire server not shared with anyone. This is more flexible than shared hosting, as organizations have full control over the server(s), including choice of operating system, hardware, etc. Server administration can usually be provided by the hosting company as an add-on service. In some cases a dedicated server can offer less overhead and a larger return on investment. Dedicated servers are most often housed in data centers, similar to colocation facilities, providing redundant power sources and HVAC systems. In contrast to collocation, the server hardware is owned by the provider and in some cases they will provide support for your operating system or applications.
Managed hosting service
In Managed hosting the user gets his or her own Web server but is not allowed full control over it (root access for Linux/administrator access for Windows); however, they are allowed to manage their data via FTP or other remote management tools. The user is disallowed full control so that the provider can guarantee quality of service by not allowing the user to modify the server or potentially create configuration problems. The user typically does not own the server. The server is leased to the client.
Colocation web hosting
Colocation web hosting is similar to the dedicated web hosting service, but the user owns the colo server; the hosting company provides physical space that the server takes up and takes care of the server. This is the most powerful and expensive type of the web hosting service. In most cases, the colocation provider may provide little to no support directly for their client’s machine, providing only the electrical, Internet access, and storage facilities for the server. In most cases for colo, the client would have his own administrator visit the data center on site to do any hardware upgrades or changes.
Cloud hosting
Cloud hosting is a new type of hosting platform that allows customers powerful, scalable and reliable hosting based on clustered load-balanced servers and utility billing. Removing single-point of failures and allowing customers to pay for only what they use versus what they could use.
Clustered hosting
Clustered hosting is having multiple servers hosting the same content for better resource utilization. Clustered Servers are a perfect solution for high-availability dedicated hosting, or creating a scalable web hosting solution. A cluster may separate web serving from database hosting capability.
Grid hosting
Grid hosting is a form of distributed hosting is where a server cluster acts like a grid and is composed of multiple nodes.
Home server
It is usually a single machine placed in a private residence can be used to host one or more web sites from a usually consumer-grade broadband connection. These can be purpose-built machines or more commonly old PCs. Some ISPs actively attempt to block home servers by disallowing incoming requests to TCP port 80 of the user’s connection and by refusing to provide static IP addresses. A common way to attain a reliable DNS hostname is by creating an account with a dynamic DNS service. A dynamic DNS service will automatically change the IP address that a URL points to when the IP address changes.
Allen is a freelancer technical writer and writes reviews and articles on Best VPS hosting providers on VPS Hosting search. Find more articles on web hosting news.
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The reason we have a usable Internet at all is because there are companies called hosting providers that give websites their virtual “homes” in cyberspace. There are many kinds of hosting services and solutions, with enough flexibility among them for webmasters to customize approaches for their specific needs. Despite this wide range of capabilities, however, hosting providers still offer three common package types – shared hosting, virtual hosting and dedicated hosting – although today leading hosting firms will also offer more personalized packages, often referred to as managed and semi-managed plans.
Understanding the differences among these approaches is just as important as comparing security, service, expertise and cost among the various providers you will consider. Understanding the different types of web hosting packages, in fact, can help you narrow the field of companies from which you will eventually pick a winner. This article will educate you sufficiently (although more study is always better than less) to choose the right hosting package, and perhaps even the right company to implement it for you.
Shared hosting
Companies and individuals making their first foray into the World Wide Web often sign up for the least expensive groups of plans, which would be under the “shared hosting” category. As the name clearly indicates, your website will be “sharing” disk space on a server with 20 or 200 other sites. Part of your agreement includes a commitment to stay within a certain, prescribed percentage of the server’s CPU (Central Processing Unit) usage. For family sites, small companies and other limited “rollouts,” this is usually not a problem.
In fact, shared hosting schemes were originally designed around certain assumptions about site owners’ behavior, many of which turned out to be right on the money. One of the many assumptions that has since become fact is that customers simply do not use all the bandwidth (storage) that they’ve been allotted in their paid plan. The fact is, many people and firms run small websites whose traffic volume only requires a small fraction of that bandwidth. Every so often, a small site will experience a sudden surge of traffic and data transfers, pushing the website use over the set limit. You will want to plan ahead for this kind of eventuality, as most agreement will give your hosting provider the right to “freeze or seize” the website, at least temporarily.
Virtual private hosting
As opposed to the shared hosting plans, a Virtual Private Server (VPS) will set you up with a Virtual Dedicated Server (VDS). You will still share server space with other sites, but will have your own environment, or partition, on that server. Individual servers are often divided into multiple, discrete (separate) partitions that run their own OS (Operating System) and can be booted up individually. These can be very important features for many firms. Of course, you will still share space on a single physical server, be restricted to a certain proportion of the CPU usage and have a limited amount of disk space and bandwidth because of the other VPS users.
Dedicated hosting
Dedicated hosting is a specialized service that offers the customer such important benefits such as secure, high-quality infrastructure and high-speed connectivity. These costlier hosting packages can be tailored to the unique needs of a customer for bandwidth, storage space and memory, and “renting” an entire server that you do not have to share enables you to run CPU-intensive programs. Your website performance will neither affect other sites nor be disrupted by what others do.
This type of dedicated hosting plan truly is the ideal one for companies with large, complex, media-rich and/or high-traffic sites. The “discrete server” model provides them complete control over the structure, contents and operations of the hosting environment. Not every individual or company needs dedicated hosting, but the ones that do could not make it with lesser hosting packages. Past a certain point of bandwidth, there is no reason to have any other kind of hosting plan.
Managed hosting services
Larger and busier firms often need a more advanced kind of dedicated hosting plan, one that can give them additional technical support and state-of-the-art equipment. These plans will also customize services in such a way as to transfer many important responsibilities to the hosting company. However, IT expertise is still required by the customer, who retains control of the operating system(s), applications and hosting environment. Managed hosting also involves a rather more significant investment of time, effort, expertise, finances and human resources than other hosting plans.
If you opt for managed hosting, you would typically lease dedicated, pre-configured equipment and connectivity from a provider. As the owner of the data center, the provider will maintain the server, the network and any other devices, and is responsible for deploying, monitoring, managing and maintaining the hardware. With contractually defined, shared responsibilities, managed hosting far exceeds basic dedicated hosting in levels of performance, security, scalability and up-time.
Semi-managed and reseller hosting
Another name for semi-managed hosting is root server hosting, a kind of dedicated hosting that lets you control the server through access to the root. This approach produces a variety of benefits, such as improved security, more reliable infrastructure and more proactive hardware maintenance. As it is a semi-managed hosting plan, a hosting provider will maintain and manage the installation and the hardware, while you (the client) will manage the other aspects (backups, software upgrades, etc.). With root access and administrator status, you can do virtually anything on your assigned server.
Reseller hosting is a way for businesses to host sites on behalf of their own customers. If you are reselling hosting services it means that you are making a contract with a hosting provider to sell their services under your own name or brand. There is ample incentive for web hosting firms to do this as it enables them to sell more dedicated hosting space. There are as many different contracts, agreements and ways of doing this as there are hosting companies, and it is certainly not something to be undertaken without planning. However, for some companies it is a powerful addition to the business plan.
The right plan for you
Depending on your needs, you may choose any of the foregoing hosting plans. Or, as many companies do, you may start small and grow into the costlier but more powerful packages. When you know how the hosting plans work, you can do a better job comparing services and costs when you are ready to set up (or expand) your site.
Amy Armitage is the head of Business Development for Lunarpages (www.lunarpages.com). Lunarpages provides quality web hosting from their US-based hosting facility. They offer a wide-range of services from dedicated servers and managed solutions to shared and reseller hosting plans.
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Virtual private servers have been used for quite some time, but lately they have gained popularity and more and more people have a need for something other than shared and dedicated web-hosting services. A virtual private server is a single physical server that is split into multiple virtual servers. What this means is that the single physical server is portioned in such a way that the one server appears to be multiple servers. While this portioning of a single server has been effective for quite some time, newer software such as Xen, FreeVPS, and others have revived the popularity.
Virtual private servers are practical for those that need something a bit different than either shared or dedicated hosting. The attractiveness of Virtual private servers or VPS is that they allow root level access to each of the clients, yet they do not require physically dedicated servers. Businesses and individuals that really need a customized server and web hosting plan often go for the virtual private server because it gives them more privacy and customization than a shared server, but usually is not as expensive as a dedicated server is. Many find that a virtual private server is just able to fulfill their needs more accurately and efficiently than any other type of hosting service.
Virtual private servers are used in a variety of situations. Many times they are used for duplicate or copy websites. This allows changes to be made to the copy site before making the changes to the main site, to ensure that the website will be as accurate and as unflawed as possible. Testing the copy site allows the individuals running the website to ensure that it is as professional and up-to-date as possible at all times. Virtual private servers are also used quite often to create honeypots, which refers to the ability to allow a specific machine to run software that knowingly has security or other flaws. Honeypots are considered to be easier to deploy in a timely fashion, which allows one to gain more insight into the world of computer safety without compromising the safety of ones main server.
There is a well-known variant of virtual hosting that is called clustered hosting; this is a technology that involves a cluster of physical machines that are each running virtual hosts. Whether you choose clustering or virtual private servers, this can be the solution to your web hosting needs. If you have the need to gain more control and customization than you can get with shared hosting, one should definitely look into VPS hosting options. VPS is great for many, including those that want more control as well as resellers.
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The full form of VPS is virtual private server. A VPS is a single physical server that is divided into a few “virtual machines” with the help of the required software on the server. In a VPS hosting service, the server’s resources like RAM, disk space, etc are shared but at the same time each VPS gets its own allotment and operates completely independently from the others. Due to this facility, you can run or software or even install a different operating system, without creating any effect on the other virtual servers on the same machine. Through this virtual Private Server technology, the hosting service provider can partition and create multiple virtual servers from one physical server.
In the case of VPS hosting service, the customer shares the server which includes the hardware itself and the connection. However, the customer gets the benefits which almost similar to a dedicated hosting. For example : They can use their private operating system and file system too. This brings freedom of accessibility and security. You can consider VPS hosting to be like between a share and a dedicated hosting. In VPS hosting, the customer is able to access administrative task such as changing server configurations, installing software, hosting multiple sites and rebooting the server.
Those who are planning to move from a shared to a dedicated environment, without wanting to incur significant rising cost, should then opt for VPS hosting server, in the very first attempt. In VPS hosting server, the operating system and file system are separate from each customer. Hence, users can ensure a definite share of the server in terms of CPU, disk input/output and network. VPS hosting is suitable for web developers who are planning to set up a social networking website or function-rich blogs. It is also meant for those web masters who are well versed with a shared hosting and now want to upgrade their skills on server management without wanting to take the risk of being exposed towards a fully dedicated server. One should be aware that an excellent virtual private server hosting account is considered to be rich in RAM. This leads to quick server responses. Also, to allow users to have maximum drive performance, some hosting accounts combine the best raid cards and drives. This prevents any possibility of Disk I/O problems, which may be seen in cheap virtual private servers. VPS services offer various types of operating systems and it also comes with a good variety of extremely powerful control panels like cPanel, Plesk and Direct Admin. You can select the type of control panel based on your style of working. Through VPS hosting account, you can expect easy set up, instant activation and good customer support. You can have interactive tutorials and 24*7 online support. Also, most of the VPS servers are likely to offer you full privacy and security.
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