What In Fact is Web Hosting

As its name implies, web hosting is a solution, which entails hosting online content. There are various forms and types of hosting, based on the aims and on the usage. In spite of that, they all are associated with hosting files, which, once hosted, are made accessible throughout the Web. A host is actually a hosting server that is connected to the World Wide Web and has its own Internet Protocol address, which enables users to gain access to it through the World Wide Web. The server's architecture and its system resources are determined by the form of web hosting service it's going to be utilized for.

What are the different types of web hosting?

Depending on the goal, the professional hosting service may be:

File Web Hosting - this type of hosting permits the clients to host their files on a particular web server. With the normal file web hosting solution, the files that are stashed may only be accessed by the client that's using the service. This hosting solution generally entails backups of computers , documents, private files and even other hosting servers. This solution may also impose given restrictions in terms of the web storage and the root-level access. There may also be bandwidth limitations, but that is dependent on the actual provider.

Warez Web Hosting - the so-called warez hosting solution is quite similar to the previous hosting service form. Even so, unlike the file hosting service, the warez hosting service is used for propagating licensed content without the blessing of the license keeper. To cut a long story short - it is related to the prohibited distribution of files and materials. There are many ways for this to be executed, but the two main methods are - via plain Hypertext Transfer Protocol downloading and through peer-to-peer connections. The first one involves either a particular site, or, most often, simply a directory on a server that's been made available for everybody to access it and thereby download copyrighted content free of charge. The second approach entails a peer-to-peer connection, availing of the so-called Torrent web servers, through which people share files between each other. There aren't many web hosting providers that allow such form of hosting on their web hosting servers, mostly because of all the judicial predicaments that it involves. Generally such websites are hosted on personal dedicated hosting servers that are registered by 3rd party corporations either in the Middle East or in Asia.

E-mail Web Hosting - this solution is used with both shared website hosting and dedicated servers, based on the customer's intention. If you desire to launch your own private SMTP mail server, then you will require either a VPS web hosting server or a dedicated server that offers the access level needed to carry out such an assignment. For traditional email web hosting ends, though, you can avail of a conventional shared web hosting account, to which you can point the mail exchanger records of your domain. This is not a solution that's widely used, because the website hosting and the email hosting services are being served by 2 separate web servers, often belonging to different web hosting providers.

Web Hosting - the most popular and regularly utilized hosting service nowadays. It's used for hosting site files, whose sort depends on the Operating System the hosting server is utilizing - Linux or Windows. Different sorts of files request different hosting server OSs, otherwise they won't be displayed properly on the Internet. This type of web hosting may involve disk space and bandwidth quota limitations, root-level access and central processing unit usage restrictions.

Based on the mission and on the usage, the user should select the sort of web server that he demands for his project, and, of course, the web hosting company that's going to provide it. There are various kinds of hosting servers, depending on the specs and the web hosting solutions that they provide. These are:

Shared Hosting Server - a shared website hosting server supplies a smaller quantity of resources, which, of course, is manifested in the price of the service. It can be utilized for hosting small scale and medium web portals, which do not need big quotas of web storage and bandwidth.

Semi-dedicated Hosting - they work on the same principle as the shared web hosting servers. However, there are much less customers hosted on the same hosting server. That is why, each of them will enjoy a larger quota of the web hosting server's resources like RAM, web storage, traffic and CPU. Excellent for hosting huge online portals that do not require root-level access.

VPS hosting are excellent for medium sites, which do demand root access to the web hosting server's configuration files. Traditionally, there are a bunch of virtual private web server accounts hosted on the same physical machine. Even so, each of them is insulated from the rest and runs its own Operating System.

Dedicated Hosting - a fully dedicated hosting server configured and accessed by you and solely you. It ensures a tremendous amount of resources. It also offers full root-level access, which renders it an ideal platform for any sort of website that demands a website hosting solution.

The sole question that's left is:

Which website hosting supplier should I settle on?

As already stated, there are just a few providers providing warez hosting solutions due to judicial complications. Such providers are being closed down virtually every month. That is why, if you wish to create such a service, you should do it on your very own computer. The shared website hosting solution is the most popular type of web hosting service. That is why, each and every web hosting vendor provides it. Not all of them, though, provide services such as virtual private hosting servers, Semi-dedicated Hosting and dedicated web hosting servers. Most of the smaller website hosting companies do not have the resources needed for maintaining those services. You can quickly recognize such web hosting companies by the sorts of services that they are making available and by the way that they introduce them to the clientele. For example, some companies permit you to begin with a low-end web hosting package and afterwards shift to a more advanced one, if you find it necessary to do so. This is quite convenient, because you do not have to move web pages between web hosting servers and there is no chance of facing service downtime because of all the predicaments that may take place.

We, at The X Net Systems provide all sorts of services and possess the necessary web hosting server resources and staff to ensure that their customers will not run into any troubles when changing services, which is what a top hosting supplier is in fact all about.