Web Hosting

Web Hosting

Complete guide for web hosting:

What is web hosting?

Web hosting is type of service which enables you to upload and publish your website application on hosting server. It provides space to storage your web application on online server. To view your website pages your website’s pages need to store somewhere on internet and the server need to proceed to display relevant pages according to your query. There are various steps need to be done when you start query and display the relevant information.

How web hosting works?

First of all you have to register domain and host that domain which mean rent a space on server to upload file. Actually server provides IP (internet protocol) address which is rotate with the domain name. All upload files link with the domain and when user type domain on URL  (Uniform Resource Locator) it display relevant user uploaded files.

What are the benefits of web hosting?

Some major benefits of web hosting are:

  • Reliability
  • Support
  • Security
  • Domain name & Email
  • Backup

When you host your domain with the professional hosting company they provide reliable service. There are many hosting who provide excellent customer support, reliable service & provide security of your website. Your domain help to your user to discover and use of your service and at the same time you can create domain email address. Regular backup helps to avoid losing your website data.

What is free web hosting?

Simple answer for free hosting is host without cost or non paid web hosting. There are many web hosting companies provide free hosting and many other feature facility without any cost. Most free hosting service companies provide sub-domain to host your website and many free templates also can use to design website. Some popular free hosting providers are wix.com, wordpress.com, weebly.com, blogger.com so on.

Some advantages of free hosting:

  • It can be a best option to learn entire website things.
  • You can start from advertising media without any invest.
  • If anyone planning to launch personal or community information site or for nonprofit organization it is good idea to choose free hosting.
  • Best for testing

What are the disadvantages of free hosting?

  • Limited space
  • Placing advertisement
  • Sub-domain makes confusion for customer
  • Need to upgrade to use features
  • Limited bandwidth
  • No backup
  • No support or limited support
  • No SLA

How can I find the web hosting company?

Simple process to find hosting company is research online. Based on statcounter.com 91.98% internet search query go through google.com,  so Go to google.com

And use keyword web hosting

Go through the search result. Finding best hosting company is crucial because different person/company requirement may different. What size of storage needed, bandwidth, security, customer support, additional application support on server or not, server uptime, user’s willingness to pay for plan etc. Mostly if you choose more features you have to pay more. To choose best service among them you can go through customer review about their service. There are many webs hosting review site on internet where you can go to read the different web hosting review.

Types of web hosting:

  • Major types of web hosting are:
  • Shared Hosting
  • Virtual Private Server (VPS)
  • Dedicated Hosting
  • Cloud Hosting
  • Managed Hosting
  • Colocation
  • Reseller Hosting

Shared Hosting:

Shared based web hosting is a type of hosting where many websites hosts on single physical server. Due to host multiple sites on single server they shared the resources. This type of hosting is cost effective who do not want to spend lots of money to buy hosting services. Shared hosting is not the suitable option to sites have high traffic. Resources such as databases, monthly traffic, disk space, email accounts, FTP accounts etc. by total user who use the share hosting service

Virtual Private Server (VPS)

One physical server partition into multiple virtual servers called VPS hosting. Each VPS can run own operating system and other software applications. VPS is almost similar to partition your computer and install different operating system on different drives. Due to one physical server partition into many virtual server it’s service cost may lower than dedicated server. Performance may not be efficient because of share one physical server.

 

Dedicated Hosting

Dedicated hosting mean single server dedicated for your website no need to share with other person. One server dedicated for your website called dedicated hosting. User have full authority to control configure server which not effected to other user. You can apply your privacy and full utilize of resources, choose operating system & hardware. Dedicated hosting is suitable for user who has high volume files & high traffic website. Shared hosting like renting room in a house and dedicated hosting like renting a house. The reason one server provide you obviously expensive than shared hosting.

Cloud Hosting

 

To maintain & maximize uptime cloud hosting uses different servers in different places which are interconnected. In cloud hosting if incase one server fail, other server start to keep things running. Multiple users’ data hosted on single server and applications deployed on cloud network.  When one server fail other start running, shared the resources, which results reliable and affordable hosting option. User only needs to pay resources they use. Storage resources are spread across multiple virtual machines. When one server face peak load other server can provide require resources which manage peak load easily, so your website does not rely on one server.

Managed Hosting

Managed hosting called managed dedicated hosting in single server. User can control hardware, OS and application software used on hosting. Managed hosting is best option for user who have high traffic website who have small or medium size business. Good support helps you to run business smoothly because managed hosting administered by hosting Provider Company. Managed hosting is more costly than shared hosting. It is secure, reliable and time saving service.

Colocation

 

The user needs to rent the space inside the datacenter premises. The user has ownership of all hardware and software application used on server. This service is better for mid or large size web companies. Colocation hosting company provides physical security, internet connection network security, power, cooling & heating components. To setup all hardware and visit datacenter when needed cost you more.

Reseller Hosting

Reseller person has the ability to create and allocate space form drive space which they own. In simple language reseller hosting reseller rent server space with other feature based on package purchase and able to allocate space to host web sites. Different company have different reseller hosting plan where reseller can purchase those plan to start resell hosting. Reseller can control package, bandwidth, and security when reseller create package to resell. Reseller’s commonly offer disk space, bandwidth, email account, domain registration, FTP account, database, security, additional scripts and monitoring tools. Feature and facilities can be different based on hosting company because different hosting companies offer different feature facilities and services. To start reseller business anyone can choose reseller hosting plan from reliable hosting company and after purchase reseller hosting package hosting company provide reseller hosting login info with WHM (with Web Hosting Manager) login where reseller can create package and sell to user based on user’s requirement.

 

Reseller can hosting package/plan for the different package such as what size of space need, bandwidth, security, cPanel and other feature facilities which provide by the hosting company. Before purchase reseller plan it is always better to research online and find good hosting company who provide reliable service, user friendly service, easy to use/configure software, good customer support and provide good margin to the reseller. It is important to provide individual cPanel to end user. As a reseller buy bulk space as package and derived in small space and sell it to customer which mean divided space at the same time divide bandwidth too.

Reseller crate package and sell to customer and reseller will be responsible if any problem occurred reseller concern issues but hosting provider responsible to resolve any of the server and other issue, so no technical depth knowledge required to be hosting reseller.

 

How to choose best web hosting provider?

Important factor to consider choosing hosting company:

  • Add-ons
  • Backup service
  • Control panel
  • Customer support
  • Email features
  • FTP access
  • Hardware
  • Money back guarantee
  • Other additional cost
  • Price
  • Read customer review
  • Renew price
  • Server reliability
  • Security
  • Disaster recovery plans

 

Different we hosting companies have different hosting packages, feature, and facilities. User has wide range of options to choose based on their requirement. If user planning to host wordpress blog it is better to choose hosting company who has wordpress specialized facility such as wordpress applications, plug-in, easy to configure wordpress based application. Most of the companies hosting are competitive and some of them offer discount offer too. Price is the major factor to choose hosting service at the same time server reliability impact your site performance. Avoid lose date regular backup is very important. If customer supports poor it takes time to resolve the issue which result bad experience to customer. Smart people research before buy hosting service, so research and read customer review to know what their current and previous customer said about their business. Choose company who provide trial or provide money back guaranteed make your life easier. After trial if incase their service do not meet your expectation you can refund your money. Accessing cPanel always important to maintain, configure when required. Hardware play important role to build high performance systems. Create email, security, disaster recovery, easy to use additional applications are also important issues to consider before choose hosting services.

 Things to consider choosing hosting package

All feature & facility provide for hosting called web hosting package. Simply when user buy any plan or package service provider mention their major feature/facility of each package which make easier buyer to choose suitable package based on their requirement. Important factors to consider buying any web hosting package are:

  • Understand your requirement
  • Read customer review
  • Check Application support
  • What size space
  • What size bandwidth
  • Security
  • Money back guarantee
  • Customer support
  • Price based on feature/facility
  • Backup
  • Security
  • Reliability
  • Free domain name
  • Renew price
  • If any additional fee
  • Hardware
  • Server location
  • Easy to upgrade plan
  • User friendly
  • FTP access
  • Email provide
  • Disaster recovery
  • Apps accepted
  • User’s have lots of choice to buy best suitable hosting package options. Most of the hosting companies highlight the major facilities they provide on different packages.

What are the benefits to choose local hosting company with server in local area?

If your targeted customers are from the local area it is recommended to host your website in local server. For example, if your targeted customer from New York it is better to host your site on New York based server. Main benefits to host your site on local server are quick page loading, quick support & security. Loading local server hosting is 3 times fast then a website hosted nationally or internationally which help for google ranking too.

Common web hosting terminology

 

Add-on domain

Apache web server

Auto responder

Backup

Bandwidth

Bounce rate

Browser

Catch all

Cluster web hosting

CMS

Content delivery network (CDN)

Control panel

Collocated
cPanel

Cloud Hosting

Data center

Data transfer

DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service)

Dedicated IP

Dedicated server

Dedicated hosting

Disk space

DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail)

DNS (Domain Name System)

Domain name

Domain privacy

Domain security

Domain registration

 

HTTPS

IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol)

IP address

IP address lookup

JavaScript

Linux hosting

Load balancing

Mailing list

Managed wordpress hosting

Downtime

Durpal

E-mail hosting

Error page

File permission

Firewall

FTP (File Transfer Protocol)

Free hosting

Green hosting

HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)

 

 

Reseller Hosting

Shared hosting

Self Service hosting

Top-level domain

TSLUnlimited hosting

Unmanaged hosting

Uptime

Vertical Scaling

Virtual Private Server

Virus

Web traffic

Webmail

Website migration

Website speed test

Web hosting

Who.is

Windows hosting

WordPress

WordPress

XML

 

Conclusion:

Online presence is one of the important aspects for every business for promotion, for brand awareness, to generate lead, sale etc., so design and hosting website one of the essential parts. No any other way to provide 24/7 support to customer only one online based service or through website. Customer can read review about your product/services anytime and they can place order anytime. It is way cheaper than using manpower to operate your business 24/7. Onetime cost to setup everything then nominal fee for renew the services. If you do not have technical knowledge it is easy to find company who provide technical support and train staffs.

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