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Web Hosting And It’s Types

Thursday, May 12th, 2011

Web Hosting :

This is one kind of Internet hosting service which permit individuals and organizations to make their own website accessible through the World Wide Web. Web hosts are companies that offer space on a server they own or lease for utilize by their users as well as providing Internet connectivity, typically in a data center. Web hosts can also provide data center space and connectivity to the Internet for servers they don’t own to be located in their data center, called colocation or Housing as it is commonly called in Latin America or France.

Different types of hosting :

There are different types of hosting. Those are as follows :

  1. Shared hosting

  2. VPS hosting

  3. Reseller Hosting

  4. Semi dedicated hosting

  5. Dedicated hosting, etc.

  1. Shared hosting: A shared web hosting service is web hosting service. In this hosting many websites reside on one web server connected to the Internet. Every site “sits” on its own partition, or section/place on the server, to keep it separate from another sites. This is normally the most economical option for hosting, as many people share the overall cost of server upkeep.

  2. VPS hosting : VPS is stands for Virtual Private Serve Hosting. VPS is a marketing term utilized by Internet hosting services to refer to a virtual machine for utilize exclusively by different users of the service. The term is utilized to emphasize that the virtual machine, although running in software on the similar physical computer as another customers’ virtual machines, is functionally equivalent to a separate physical computer, is dedicated to the individual customer’s requirements, has the privacy of a separate physical computer, and can be configured to run as a server computer (i.e. to run server software). The term Virtual Dedicated Server or VDS is utilized less often for the same concept.

  3. Reseller hosting : Reseller hosting is one kind of web hosting where the account owner has the capability to utilize their 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, possibly for a earnings. A certain portion of hard drive and bandwidth is offered 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.

  4. Semi dedicated hosting :Semi-Dedicated Servers are a perfect fill-in between Virtual Private Servers and Dedicated Servers. Semi dedicated server hosting provide good Performance, Dedicated System Resources, Root Access & Total Control, Savings on Control Panel costs .

  5. Dedicated hosting :

    dedicated hosting ine kind of hosting in which the users rent whole server not shared with anyone. This is much- more flexible than shared hosting, as organizations have full control over the server(s), including choice of os, hardware, etc. Server administration can normally offered by the hosting provider 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 colocation, the server hardware is owned by the provider and in some cases they will provide support for your operating system or applications.