Hosting Description

If you desire to build a site and render it accessible to the whole world, it must be located on a server. This service is called is hosting.

Host your site at home or in another place

You could host your web site on your own PC at home or at work, on a PC which belongs to an acquaintance of yours, etc. If it is a website for experimenting purposes, there would be no real need for you to find a more advanced website hosting solution than that. If you want to develop an actual website, however, which will be visible to lots of visitors and you wish to make it reliable, you will also need a reliable hosting server where you will host it.

Why do you require a web hosting server for your site?

When you own a web site, it is hosted on a physical machine. That physical server has its own physical address known also as IP address. Writing the Internet Protocol address of the server in your browser, however, is not the best and most convenient means to visit a website. That is how and why domain names came into existence and why you are in need of one for your web site. Thus, to create your web site, you need a domain name of your own and a web server to host your website on.

Hosting your site yourself

If you are an IT pro and understand how to work with a web server, you can have a web server of your own and host your site on it. This will enable you to exercise complete control over the hosting server, to implement server configuration modifications and to apply software updates yourself rather than having to rely on the datacenter staff. The drawback, however, is that you will need to guarantee the visibility of your site and to cope with all server maintenance tasks yourself. If you are availing of a licensed Operating System, you will also need to invest money in the license, which is typically more costly if purchased for a whole web hosting server.

Using a hosting packages provider

If you don't want to take care of server maintenance procedures, the best solution is to sign up for an account with a web hosting services provider. These are firms that offer customers powerful servers with different hardware configurations in exchange for a certain tax. The servers are stored in data center facilities with special cooling and backup power systems to ensure uninterrupted Internet connectivity.

Types of hosting services

The World Wide Web is a bottomless ocean and there are multiple firms providing different hosting services to the multitude of web site proprietors out there. The hosting services range from free-of-cost hosting services, where you can host basic, HTML-based websites, to high-priced dedicated web hosting services that can drain your monthly budget. So, what type of web hosting answers your needs?

If you run a small or medium-size website that has several hundred viewers max, you could safely avail of a shared hosting solution. Shared hosting implies that a lot of shared web hosting accounts and web sites are accommodated on the very same server, thus decreasing the price of the service. Shared accounts usually have CPU, RAM, bandwidth and web server space usage quotas to guarantee that the websites accommodated on the hosting server do not interfere with each other and do not utilize more system resources than they are allotted.

If your site is larger, you should opt for a VPS hosting solution, which is the middle ground between the shared web hosting solution and the dedicated hosting solution. VPS is an acronym for Virtual Private Server. It offers root access, which enables you to implement server configuration changes - something that would be inconceivable on a shared hosting web server. The VPSs also offer burstable RAM memory options. Separate RAM memory and central processing unit portions are allotted to each individual private virtual server, without anyone else utilizing them. Typically there are other VPSs apart from yours that utilize the system resources of the physical server, which could sometimes affect the overall performance, but in the majority of instances it's of no concern. Should the system resources of the virtual web hosting server, however, be inadequate for your needs, it is obviously time to obtain a dedicated hosting server.

The dedicated servers is a server that you rent, which is used solely by you for your own web site needs. Nobody else uses its system resources and you receive complete root-level access, can select the hardware in advance, add upgrades later on and install RAM or hard drives. Unlike with the VPSs where virtualization is mostly at the OS level and all containers share a single kernel, with a dedicated hosting web server you can revise the kernel of the Operating System (typically Linux-based) as well.

Pick your hosting plans provider

If you have an idea of what your web site is going to contain, or if you have only a loose idea that has not fully evolved yet, your very first step towards the creation of your site should be to select a web hosting packages provider. The best thing to do is discover a web hosting accounts provider that supplies an extensive assortment of website hosting solutions so that you do not need to switch hosting providers in case you first make use of a shared website hosting solution and then outgrow the shared web hosting resources and have to shift to a virtual web hosting server solution or a dedicated server web hosting solution. We, for example, furnish low-cost shared hosting plans, cheap OpenVZ and Virtuozzo-based VPS server hosting plans, semi-dedicated servers with their own web hosting Control Panel interface and even dedicated server hosting plans. We also offer free-of-charge extras - the shared website hosting low-cost domain if they are paid for on a yearly basis, the more powerful private virtual hosting server packages and dedicated server plans offer a free domain reseller account and billing software in case you wish to use them for reselling purposes. Throw in the exceptional 24x7 support service and you have all you would usually need. You could, of course, find other hosting distributors depending on what exactly you are looking for, by conducting an online search or by checking different hosting reviews online. The best option, though, is a web host that is also a domain name registrar and has servers in more than one country - both requirements met by us. We have web servers in North America, in the UK and in Australia, and offer a multitude of domain name extensions for registration.