What Does Website Hosting Represent?

As its name indicates, website hosting is a service, which entails hosting online content. There are different forms and types of hosting, depending on the goals and on the functions. Still, they all involve hosting files, which, once hosted, are made accessible throughout the Internet. A web host is actually a hosting server that is linked to the World Wide Web and has its own personal Internet Protocol address, which enables people to have access to it through the Internet. The web server's configuration and its resources are subject to the sort of hosting service it will be utilized for.

What are the various forms of hosting?

Depending on the objective, the professional hosting solution may be:

File Hosting - this type of hosting permits the clients to host their files on a particular web server. With the routine file hosting solution, the files that are hosted may only be accessed by the client that's availing of the service. This web hosting service generally is associated with backups of computers , docs, personal files and even other servers. This solution may also contain certain limits with regard to the server space and the root-level access. There may also be web traffic quota limitations, but that is dependent on the actual service provider.

Warez Web Hosting - the so-called warez hosting service is quite similar to the previous web hosting service type. Nevertheless, in contrast with the file web hosting service, the warez hosting service is utilized for propagating patented materials without the approval of the patent proprietor. In brief - it is related to the prohibited circulation of files and materials. There are numerous ways for this to be brought about, but the 2 principal approaches are - via simple HTTP downloading and through P2P connections. The first one involves either a certain web page, or, most commonly, simply a directory on a web hosting server that's been made available for everyone to access it and thereby download copyrighted files free of charge. The second approach entails a peer-to-peer connection, availing of the so-called Torrent web servers, via which people swap files between each other. There aren't many web hosting firms that allow such type of hosting on their web hosting servers, mainly owing to all the legal problems that it involves. Typically such web portals are hosted on private dedicated web servers that are registered by third-party firms either in the Middle East or in Asia.

E-mail Web Hosting - this service is relevant with both shared web hosting and dedicated hosting servers, based on the user's desire. If you desire to run your very own personal SMTP server, then you will require either a virtual hosting server or a dedicated server that provides the level of access needed to accomplish such an assignment. For normal electronic mail web hosting ends, however, you can set up a regular shared website hosting account, to which you can point the MX records of your domain. This is not a solution that's widely famous, because the web hosting and the email hosting services are being served by 2 different servers, often belonging to separate firms.

Website Hosting - the most widespread and extensively used hosting service today. It's utilized for hosting website files, whose kind is dependent on the OS the server is utilizing - Linux or Windows. Different kinds of files request different hosting server OSs, or else they won't be shown correctly on the Web. This kind of web hosting may impose storage space and bandwidth limitations, root-level access and CPU usage limitations.

Based on the goals and on the usage, the client should pick the type of web hosting server that he needs for his project, and, of course, the hosting provider that's going to furnish it. There are various types of hosting servers, based on the specifications and the web hosting services that they offer. These are:

Shared Web Hosting Server - a shared website hosting server includes a smaller amount of resources, which, of course, is manifested in the price of the service. It can be utilized for hosting small and middle scale sites, which do not demand enormous quotas of server storage and web traffic.

Semi-dedicated Web Hosting - they function on the same principle as the shared website hosting servers. In spite of that, there are much less users accommodated on the same web hosting server. Hence, each of them will receive a bigger quota of the server's resources like RAM, disk space, bandwidth and CPU. Excellent for hosting popular online portals that do not demand full root privileges.

VPS web hosting are ideal for medium size web sites, which do need root access to the web server's config files. Commonly, there are a number of private virtual web server hosting accounts situated on the same physical server. Even so, each of them is isolated from the rest and runs its own Operating System.

Dedicated Web Hosting - a completely dedicated machine configured and accessed by you and only you. It guarantees a great quantity of resources. It also includes full server root privileges, which makes it an excellent environment for any sort of web site that requires a web hosting solution.

The sole question that remains is:

Which website hosting company should I settle on?

As already mentioned, there are not many hosting companies offering warez web hosting services because of judicial predicaments. Such web hosting companies are being closed down almost every month. That is why, if you want to start such a service, you should do it on your own PC. The shared website hosting solution is the most widely spread type of web hosting service. So, every website hosting distributor offers it. Not all of them, however, provide solutions such as virtual private web servers, Semi-dedicated Web Hosting and dedicated web hosting servers. Most of the small scale web hosting distributors do not have the resources required for maintaining those services. You can effortlessly identify such web hosts by the kinds of solutions that they are providing and by the way that they present them to the customers. For instance, some web hosting providers permit you to start with a small sized web hosting plan and then upgrade to a more powerful one, if you deem it mandatory to do so. This is quite convenient, because you do not need to transfer web portals between web hosting servers and there is no chance of facing outages because of all the problems that may occur.

We, at I-Solutions Hosting offer all sorts of services and have the needed web server resources and staff to ensure that their clients will not come across any troubles when swapping services, which is what a top hosting corporation is actually all about.