A Journey Into The Web Hosting World

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Submitted by: Lyuben Gergiev

The growth of internet has touched every aspect of our daily life. Today you can watch movies online while travelling in a car. The first step to publish your company product or services online is to create your own website. The created website has to be accessible to the world to see and this can be done by using a web hosting service.

What is Web Hosting?

It is a service provided by internet service vendors that allows your company to own a small space in their client server with high speed internet access. A simple web page is hosted through the FTP process. A complicated heavy website requires additional database support and use of application development software like PHP, Java, ASP.net.

Various types of Web Hosting

There are different types of web hosting services available to meet the various customer needs. Some of them are:

Free Hosting

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This is ideally suited for personal or small websites and can only support small traffic. The large Internet Service Providers offer free hosting plans and they are very popular among the students. Being free there is no cost element attached to these plans but they lack good technical support and you cannot use your own domain name here.

Shared Hosting

This is the most popular form of web hosting, where many customers share one server or virtual space. Here the hosting services are economically priced and easy to use. Technical support is good and you also enjoy your own domain name as well as other additional solutions like email, database and various editing options. The limitation that you might face as a shared user is that your website traffic volume would be medium sized and security measures would not be stringent.

Dedicated Hosting

As the name suggests your company website would enjoy a dedicated server entertaining a large traffic, which is suitable for popular and medium or large sized company websites. Dedicated hosting is powerful, secure with unlimited software solutions that could be used by your company. However, it is very expensive in nature and requires high software knowledge for daily use.

Collocated Hosting

In this type of web hosting service you place your own server in the location of an Internet Service Provider. The services rendered have high internet bandwidth with good security. It is expensive in nature and sometimes there are problems to configure and debug it correctly.

Rules to choose a suitable web hosting service vendor

In the sea of Web Service Companies, it is a daunting task to choose the appropriate vendor for your company website. At the very beginning, you must decide what features are important to you. Some of these features are:

The web hosting service provider should provide with your own domain name with basic software solutions like email and editing options.

The technical support provided should be 24/7 in nature and uptime should be around 99%.

Security levels should be high.

The pricing should be reasonable.

A new trend that is growing in this segment is the cloud based hosting service using cluster server technology. This would take web hosting to a new level and make it more convenient and powerful.

About the Author: A new trend that is growing in this segment is the cloud based web hosting service (in Danish the term is

webhotel

) using cluster server technology. This would

take web hosting to a new level

and make it more convenient and powerful.

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