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An explanation of website hosting

As its name implies, web hosting is a solution, which involves hosting web content. There are different varieties and types of web hosting, depending on the aims and on the objectives. In spite of that, they all entail hosting files, which, once hosted, are made accessible throughout the World Wide Web. A host is actually a web server that is linked to the Web and has its own IP address, which permits people to have access to it via the World Wide Web. The server's architecture and its resources are dependent on the sort of hosting service it will be used for.

What are the various types of hosting?

Based on the purpose, the hosting service may be:

File Storage Web Hosting - this type of hosting permits the users to save their files on a specific hosting server. With the routine file hosting service, the files that are kept may only be accessed by the user that's utilizing the service. This hosting solution mainly is associated with backups of personal computers , docs, private files and even other servers. This service may also contain given limitations with regard to the server storage and the root privileges. There may also be web traffic quota limits, but that depends on the actual web hosting service provider.

Warez Hosting - the so-called warez web hosting solution is resembling the previous web hosting service type. Yet, in contrast with the file hosting solution, the warez web hosting solution is utilized for circulating copyrighted materials without the blessing of the licence owner. In brief - it refers to the unauthorized distribution of files and docs. There are numerous ways for this to be realized, but the 2 principal approaches are - through simple HTTP downloading and through peer-to-peer connections. The first method entails either a certain web site, or, most commonly, just a directory on a hosting server that's been made available for everybody to access it and thereby download patented materials free of cost. The second approach entails a P2P connection, making use of the so-called Torrent web servers, via which users swap files between each other. There are very few site hosting providers that permit such form of hosting on their hosting servers, mostly because of all the judicial complications that it entails. Typically such websites are hosted on private dedicated web servers that are registered by 3rd party corporations either in the Middle East or in Asia.

Electronic Mail Web Hosting - this solution is relevant with both shared website hosting and dedicated web servers, based on the user's intention. If you desire to launch your own personal SMTP email server, then you will need either a Virtual Private Server or a dedicated hosting server that provides the level of access needed to accomplish such an assignment. For normal electronic mail hosting purposes, though, you can use a plain shared web space hosting account, to which you can point the MX records of your domain name. This is not a solution that's widely popular, since the website hosting and the electronic mail hosting services are being served by two separate servers, usually belonging to separate web hosting providers.

Website Hosting - the most popular and frequently utilized hosting service at present. It's utilized for hosting web site files, whose type is determined by the Operating System the server is making use of - Linux or Windows. Different sorts of files necessitate different server Operating Systems, otherwise they won't be exhibited appropriately on the Internet. This form of web hosting may impose disk space and web traffic quota limitations, server root access and central processing unit usage restrictions.

Based on the goals and on the functions, the user should select the type of web server that he needs for his project, and, of course, the hosting company that's going to supply it. There are different sorts of hosting servers, based on the configuration and the site hosting solutions that they provide. These are:

Shared Hosting Server - a shared web space hosting server provides a smaller amount of resources, which, of course, reflects on the price of the service. It can be utilized for hosting small and middle sized online portals, which do not require vast quotas of server storage space and bandwidth.

Semi-Dedicated Servers Hosting - they are based on the same principle as the shared web page hosting servers. In spite of that, there are much fewer clients accommodated on the same server. Therefore, each of them will have a larger quota of the web server's resources like RAM, disk space, traffic and CPU. Excellent for hosting immense sites that do not require server root access.

Virtual Private Server - the virtual servers are excellent for medium scale web portals, which do require root access to the hosting server's config files. Traditionally, there are a number of virtual private web hosting server accounts situated on the same server. Even so, each of them is insulated from the other ones and runs its own Operating System.

Dedicated Servers Hosting - a completely dedicated physical machine configured and accessed by you and only you. It guarantees a mammoth quantity of resources. It also includes full server root privileges, which renders it the optimal environment for any kind of web portal that demands a web hosting service.

The only question that remains is:

Which hosting distributor should I select?

As stated above, there are just a few providers offering warez hosting services due to legal problems. Such hosting companies are being shut down practically every month. For that reason, if you want to run such a service, you should do it on your own PC. The shared site hosting service is the most widespread type of hosting service. Hence, each and every web space hosting vendor provides it. Not all of them, though, provide solutions such as virtual web servers, semi-dedicated hosting servers and dedicated web hosting servers. Most of the small scale site hosting vendors do not have the resources needed for maintaining those solutions. That's why it's invariably best to pick a bigger hosting company that can furnish its customers with all the services that they require. You can quickly identify such web hosts by the sorts of services that they are supplying and by the manner in which they introduce them to the clients. For example, some web hosting providers permit you to kick off with a smaller web site hosting plan and afterwards move to a more powerful one, if you find it necessary to do so. This is quite convenient, since you do not have to move web pages between web servers and there is no danger of experiencing network outages because of all the predicaments that may take place. Hosting companies such as QTLabs Inc. provide all sorts of solutions and have the adequate web server resources and personnel to ensure that their clients will not encounter any troubles when swapping services, which is what a top hosting vendor is in fact all about.