What In Fact is Shared Hosting

As its name implies, shared hosting is a service, which involves hosting online content. There are different varieties and types of web hosting, based on the mission and on the usage. Still, they all refer to hosting files, which, once hosted, are made available through the Internet. A web host is in fact a web server that is linked to the Web and has its own personal IP address, which allows users to get access to it via the Web. The web hosting server's architecture and its limitations are subject to the kind of hosting service it will be used for.

What are the different forms of web hosting?

Depending on the application, the hosting service may be:

File Hosting - this type of hosting enables the users to accommodate their files on a certain hosting server. With the classic file storage hosting solution, the files that are deposited may only be accessed by the person that's utilizing the service. This web hosting solution mainly includes backups of personal computers , documents, personal files and even other web hosting servers. This solution may also involve given limits with regard to the web storage and the root-level access. There may also be bandwidth limits, but that is dependent on the particular hosting service provider.

Warez Web Hosting - the so-called warez hosting service is very similar to the previous web hosting service type. Even so, in contrast with the file web hosting solution, the warez web hosting service is utilized for propagating copyrighted work without the blessing of the licence holder. To cut a long story short - it is associated with the illicit dissemination of files and docs. There are lots of methods for this to be brought about, but the 2 chief ways are - via simple HTTP downloading and through peer-to-peer connections. The first approach entails either a given web site, or, most often, just a directory on a hosting server that's been made available for everybody to access it and thereby download proprietary materials for free. The second approach involves a peer-to-peer connection, using the so-called Torrent servers, via which users transfer files between each other. There are very few website hosting vendors that permit such form of hosting on their web hosting servers, mainly because of all the legal entanglements that it presupposes. Commonly such websites are hosted on private dedicated servers that are registered by 3rd party companies either in the Middle East or in Asia.

Email Hosting - this solution is utilized with both shared web hosting and dedicated servers, based on the client's desire. If you wish to build your own personal SMTP electronic mail server, then you will require either a private virtual web server or a dedicated web server that provides the level of access needed to perform such a task. For ordinary email hosting purposes, however, you can set up a normal shared web hosting account, to which you can point the mail exchanger records of your domain. This is not a service that's very used, because the website hosting and the mail hosting services are being served by 2 separate web servers, often owned by different firms.

Shared Hosting - the most popular and immensely used hosting service now. It's utilized for hosting website files, whose kind is dependent on the OS the web server is running - Linux or Windows. Different kinds of files necessitate specific web server OSs, otherwise they won't be displayed correctly on the World Wide Web. This type of web hosting may impose storage space and web traffic limits, root-level access and CPU usage limits.

Based on the goals and on the objectives, the client should pick the kind of web server that he demands for his project, and, of course, the website hosting provider that's going to provide it. There are different kinds of servers, based on the specs and the website hosting solutions that they offer. These are:

Shared Hosting Server - a shared web hosting server offers a smaller amount of resources, which, of course, is reflected on the cost of the service. It can be used for hosting small scale and medium scale web pages, which do not require vast quantities of storage space and bandwidth.

Semi-dedicated Servers - they perform on the same principle as the shared hosting servers. Yet, there are much fewer customers hosted on the same web hosting server. Because of that, each of them will obtain a larger share of the hosting server's resources like RAM, disk storage space, bandwidth and CPU. Ideal for hosting huge web portals that do not need root-level access.

VPS hosting are ideal for medium sized web portals, which do demand root-level access to the hosting server's config files. Usually, there are a few VPS web server accounts situated on the same server. Yet, each of them is insulated from the rest and runs its own Operating System.

Dedicated Server - a completely dedicated hosting server configured and accessed by you and only you. It guarantees a big amount of system resources. It also includes full root privileges, which renders it the optimal platform for any sort of web page that requires a website hosting service.

The only question that's left is:

Which website hosting vendor should I pick?

As already stated, there aren't many hosting companies offering warez hosting solutions because of legal troubles. Such hosting companies are being closed down almost every month. Therefore, if you want to provide such a service, you should do it on your very own personal computer. The shared web hosting solution is the most famous type of web hosting service. So, each and every web hosting corporation provides it. Not all of them, though, provide services such as private virtual hosting servers, Semi-dedicated Servers and dedicated web servers. Most of the small scale web hosting firms do not have the resources needed for maintaining those services. You can easily identify such hosts by the kinds of solutions that they are providing and by the way that they introduce them to the clientele. For example, certain web hosting companies allow you to begin with a low-end website hosting package and subsequently move to a bigger one, if you find it necessary to do so. This is extremely suitable, because you do not have to relocate sites between web hosting servers and there is no risk of experiencing service disturbances because of all the predicaments that may occur.

We, at Web Hosting Services offer all sorts of solutions and have the needed server resources and staff to ensure that their customers will not chance upon any problems when changing services, which is what a top hosting corporation is in fact all about.