Web Hosting Revealed

Web hosting is a service that hosting vendors offer so that you can upload your website to the World Wide Web.

How can people notice your website?

When you create a site and you want other persons to notice it, you will have to copy (or upload) it to a server. If you try to make the website reachable on the Internet by web hosting it on your own PC, there is no way for you to keep it constantly online, which is why hosting services came into existence.

How does web hosting work?

Web hosting companies offer you space for your website on their high-powered computers (web hosting servers) and ensure continuous Internet connection. When someone writes your web address (for example www.my-best-domain.com) in their browser's address bar, they will be connected to the hosting server where they can take a gaze at the content of your site.

Web hosting varieties

With the growth of online technologies, different types of web hosting services have come into being to answer the various needs of web site owners, including shared web hosting services, VPS server hosting services and dedicated web hosting services.

Shared website hosting

Shared web hosting is the most widely used form of hosting, and is also the easiest to begin with. It is a service where a single web server is divided among multiple hosting users who are limited by the CPU, traffic and server disk drive storage space quotas that they have been allotted. This form of web hosting is typically less expensive - you don't need to buy the entire hosting server in advance, since it is divided among numerous web hosting account owners, and the hosting supplier can afford to offer much more moderate prices. It is also easier to use - the hosting server is pre-configured with all the necessary software and the hosting solutions provider takes care of all server maintenance tasks and software updates on your behalf.

The weakness of the shared hosting solution is that you share the server's resources with other clients and if a given web site becomes very busy it may influence (and slow down) the rest of the sites on that web hosting server, but most web hosting distributors, including us at World Hosting, have protection systems at work that impede that from taking place.

A description of a hosting service

Since shared web hosting is the most widely used form of web hosting, the majority of hosting vendors and hosting users simply call it web hosting or website hosting. As there is a big rivalry on the hosting market, the majority of hosting distributors try to offer reasonable prices and bonuses with their hosting services. We, for instance, offer different website hosting plans and two invoicing options - monthly and annual, based on your budget. If you select the annual invoicing cycle, you will receive a bonus - one free-of-cost domain name registration.

VPS web hosting

VPS stands for Virtual Private Server. The VPS web hosting solution is basically the middle ground between the shared hosting solution and the dedicated server hosting solution. If your site outgrows the resources offered by your shared hosting plan, a VPS web server package is a suitable choice. Virtual Private Server web hosting customers still share the hardware resources of the physical machine with other virtual server web hosting clients, but the hard drive is split up using a special virtualization technology so that each partition has its own guaranteed resources and can be configured practically like an actual dedicated web server. The advantage is that the CPU and the RAM memory on a virtual private web server are not shared. Furthermore, the virtualization technology offers you much more autonomy to configure your VPS web server, but it also presupposes a more advanced degree of technical knowledge.

Dedicated Web Hosting

With the Dedicated Web Hosting solution, the client obtains an entire hosting server and can use all its system resources. The dedicated server web hosting solution is the most reliable of all web hosting solutions and offers a multitude of configuration options - the dedicated hosting clients can choose the hardware and software specifications that will satisfy their requirements. Dedicated system resources and guaranteed performance are among the reasons why a dedicated server is a perfect solution for a heavy resource-consuming business portal, for example - you will not share the web hosting server's system resources with anyone else and will acquire complete root access. You will exert complete authority over the physical server, which will permit you to make any configuration changes that you might require. The drawback of the dedicated web server hosting solution is that a more advanced degree of technical expertise is needed - unless you employ an Information Technology expert, it will be your duty to administer and configure the dedicated server. The dedicated server web hosting solution is also far more expensive, since the cost of the dedicated hosting server isn't shared among any other users.

A website hosting recommendation for beginners

If you are just starting to create your web site and are searching for a website hosting solution to start out with, the shared website hosting solution remains the most logical choice. If your site outgrows your shared web hosting account's resources, you can usually upgrade. With us, for example, this is very easy and does not involve migration of your web site files, because only the features of your website hosting account change. You can also upgrade your website hosting package to a more powerful one at any given time without worrying about the number of days remaining before expiration. Also, if you eventually reach the most powerful shared hosting plan and still need more system resources (which is a good thing sometimes - it implies that your web site's popularity has increased!), there always is the possibility to migrate to a VPS server or a dedicated web hosting server without the need to swap web hosting providers.