Tuesday, June 16, 2009

What is web hosting service?

Well, let me start with a simple example. You stay in a house, you/your family either buy it's space or you rent a house and you pay per month for it's space. Similarly in internet, you see the contents - contents may be text, image, video or any graphics and these contents need space to reside or in order word there must be some hosting company that is responsible to provide space for these contents.

A web hosting service is a type of internet hosting service that allows you to provide their own website accessible through internet so that they can rent their space for you. Then you can browse their site and take decision whether you will use their hosting service or in other word whether you will host your contents to them. A web hosting company can provide you space on a server they own or lease for use by their clients as well as they provide Internet connectivity with their server so that your hosted contents can be accessible through worldwide.

Based on the services they offer web hosting services can be divided through various ways.

1)Free web hosting service: In most cases they offer limited service and some of the time web hosting server wants a advertisement within your web page.

2)Shared web hosting service: Many websites share a single web hosting server.

3)Reseller web hosting: Allows client to host their server themselves. And their services vary based on reseller.

4)Virtual Dedicated Server: Resources of one server is allocated to many websites and each website owner may be responsible to manage their contents.

5)Dedicated hosting service: The user is not own the server but web hosting site dedicate a server for the user and user have the root access of the server.

6)Managed hosting service: The user does not have full control but have access to ftp their contents. The web site provider site is responsible to ensure the quality of service.

7)Colocation web hosting service: Most powerful and expensive. The hosting company provides physical space for the server and take care of the server. But the user owns the server machine and have full control of the server machine.

8)Cloud hosting: It removes single point of failure and also cost depends on the user what services they use.

9)Clustered hosting: Multiple web hosting server hosts the same content for better resource utilization. As contents reside in multiple server so Clustered Servers are the best solution for high-availability hosting, or creating a scalable web hosting solution.

10)Grid hosting: An enhancement of clustered hosting. In this case each cluster is composed on multiple nodes.

11)Home server: Privately in a home you can establish a server and can use that.

Now it is a question where I will get these hosting company in order to host my website content. In fact there are so many companies that offer web hosting service. Some popular site is godaddy.com. In fact you can so many companies that offer verious types of web hosting service. There is too many sites which are the guide for Affordable web hosting packages available online. This hosting guide has more than 200 approved web hosts with over 400 cheap web hosting packages listed.

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